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“I’m mixed on Al. On one hand, I really enjoy using it to write software. On the other hand, I’m really nervous about its impact on the world,” the engineer wrote in an internal forum for coders.

Yeah, that’s the catch isn’t it? On one hand, we’re ceding skills to oligarch-owned chat bots that are working day and night to create to neofeudal police state where their air conditioned bunkers can survive the climate apocalypse, but on the other hand, it makes your job slightly easier (until you’re inevitably laid off).

It’s a really tough spot to be in.

I do my best to have solidarity with the entire working class, but 👉👈

Hard disagree. We aren’t hating AI and it’s users nearly enough.

The gun laws we need most are gun laws to disarm the police. Magically, they’re always exempted, even in personal capacities, even in the context of red-flag laws. It’s not like the police have a documented history of collective domestic abuse or anything.

“Make no mistakes, don’t use en or em dashes.”

Sometimes I don’t think Democrats are up to the task in front of them…

Not even duplicity. She ran as an anti-labor candidate. Unions were wrong to have expected differently.

I appreciate this for bringing the clankers out for me to block. Butlerian Jihad Now.

I appreciate the article, I guess, but the NYT comments are depressing. 'Thank you for bringing the this issue to light." Seriously? Israel’s use of rape as punishment is nigh universally known. Israel literally just had mass protests in defense of the right to rape Palestinians prisoners–something the article dutifly mentions–and people are pretending like this is some recently revealed shock?

We need a maximum voting age. People that won’t be around for dinner shouldn’t be in charge of the groceries.

After how badly she botched multiple DC grand juries, having Jeanine Pirro in charge of the prosecution seems like a slam dunk for the defense though.

Nice.

Not disagreeing at all. The mass unemployment of a bunch of industries is terrible. I’m just saying the other side of the coin is also terrible, that we’re heading towards a world where humans have lost the ability to perform important skills to (potentially hostile) chatbots (owned by billionaires) that we won’t be able to properly manage or oversee. That’s the flip side of most ‘positive’ AI stories: ‘AI is better at detecting early breast cancer… And the doctors that use AI have gotten worse because of it.’

Not just that the next generation of experts will hypothetically be employed as baristas, but I don’t think people take the risk of deskilling enough. The next generation of would-be experts won’t be as good at whatever because they’ve learned to rely on AI. We risk effectively transferring valuable skills from humans to Musk- or Altman-owned chatbots. That should horrify everyone.

Both words are complicated, debated, co-opted, etc., so it’s hard to come up with a definition and relationship that’d be universally accepted. But Socialism, broadly speaking, is the ownership of the means of production (things that, when work, generate money like factories, etc.) by the workers. Different variants of socialism call for that ownership by different means, usually either by a government as a proxy for the workers, or by industrial unions, or by the workers’ directly.

Communism is a variant of Socialism that, broadly, assumes that socialism will eventually progress to a classless and stateless society.

It’s complicated because ‘social democracy’ and ‘democratic socialism’ are two distinct ideologies, who’s definitions have flipped throughout history, and who’s biggest proponents (in the US at least) get it backwards.

Social democracy isn’t a form of socialism since it’s still capitalism, albeit one with guardrails. Most people that identify as democratic socialists – aside from social democrats misusing the term – are socialists that want to draw a contrast with Marxism-Leninism and other perceived ‘authoritarian’ forms of state socialism. But it’s hard to define a concrete definition for the term since people use it as an umbrella term, including it’s adoption by some state socialists.

I mean, fuck Elon, but of course he’s not going to attend a voluntary police interrogation. Who would?

Just arrest his ass.