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New paradox baffles top Harvard researchers: the more people understand capitalism, the more they embrace socialism.
My friend, who is a self titulated capitalist, was mocking me like "oh looks who is embracing capitalism" because I got myself a promotion and a 30% rise telling my boss I was applying to a position in other department and I was like bitch getting more of my surplus value is the most socialist thing I can do in my position.
You claim to be communist and yet you work. Curious!
"oh looks who is embracing capitalism"
I like how one hexbear user put it:
socialism is not identity politics but with class aesthetics.
Liberals are fundamentally unable to comprehend this. Leftism not a lifestyle, it's not a set of arbitrary rules individuals must follow. It's a strawman embraced by every capitalist society on Earth.
My friend, who is a self titulated capitalist
Ask your friend how much capital they own
That deen of the factory is missing somewhere with the bonds and the titles of their lands.
AI is cocomelon for adult children
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why the fuck are these people so intent on my "embracing" AI? this and the Japanese government post too. why do they care?
It can be used to vastly empower the surveillance state and manipulations (propaganda/marketing). It can also be used in automating drone strikes (murder). It's a tool to further empower the owning class and consolidate power upwards letting a smaller number of people project more power. I believe ai is also being used as a proxy so government and corporations can deny accountability. It has some actually good uses in science but I don't think that's where the interest lies.
Rich people imagine AI will allow them to finally fulfill their dream of accumulating value without having to pay a worker. It doesn't actually work that way, but like all capitalists they're dumb idealists.
It's 4ir shit (4th industrial revolution). AI has been sold as the next industrial revolution in production and governments are sincerely bought into the idea that it needs to be implemented into all aspects of the economy in order to keep up with opponents doing the same.
They see populations reluctant to embrace it as the reason for lacking the productivity games it's supposed to provide when in reality the technology just does not provide those productivity gains outside of specific niche things like healthcare where AI can definitely play an excellent role in patient diagnosis and pharmacy.
They don't realise they've been lied to yet. Governments will be last to realise.
They believe Marc Andreessen when he says
We believe any deceleration of AI will cost lives. Deaths that were preventable by the AI that was prevented from existing is a form of murder.
Me: Marc, can we have an understanding of social murder?
Marc: We have an understanding of social murder at home.
The understanding of social murder at home:
They need you to use it to keep their investments sound.
How come people are more eager to embrace something they think is a magic gnome capable of answering all questions and do all their work than they are of embracing something they know to be a statistical bullshit generator?
"Why is it that when people learn about [bad thing] they suddenly think it's bad?"
-Fucking Harvard
They are allergic to the word "contradiction"
But it isn't even a contradiction. The more you understand how it works the less you like it. Once you've peeked behind the curtain you are aware the great and powerful Oz is just smoke and mirrors and bullshit and you don't believe it's magic anymore. That's not contradictory that's just rational.
I'd argue only at that point can the AI actually be useful to you because you're aware of its inherent limitations and can just use it for the things you know it's good at, which is not that many things actually so yeah you end up using it way less.
yeah plenty of people like their fancy autocomplete
Its not even auto complete. I tried running qwen3:8b param model on ollama and it just felt so tiring having to cajole the program into producing the output I want.
Everything was very underwhelming and could be done better by a 15 year old human personal assistant who actually likes programming.
AI is the supposed bourgeois escape hatch for starving and mistreating workers when the reality of austerity hits them fast and no one is able to work.
It's good at replacing junior engineers across the industry!
When there's a shortage across all sectors in 10 years all these CEOs will wondee why that is, when they've only been hiring people with 10+ years of experience since before OpenAI was a company.
It's also made academia worthless. The junior engineers we do hire are grossly incompetent. Whenever you ask them to research something they'll send you a copy-paste from ChatGPT where they obviously just pasted your question into the prompt. Asking them to edit a report is also just thrown onto an LLM, pasting the output with m-dashes and all.
They can only be blamed for so much though, academia in Amerikkka turned into just an obstacle to enter the workforce (in my opinion, just a barrier of entry to keep poor people poor while the rich can afford to purchase their "qualifications".)
There was a whole scandal at my state college because professors would not fail students, making it functionally a classist pipeline in which having the means to pay for an education is really the only requirement to get a job in STEM. Most of the students don't have an interest in the subjects they're studying, they only do it for the ability to get a cushy job.
Models that you can run locally on reasonably priced consumer grade hardware are always going to be crap, you really need the beefy models that destroy the environment for it to be somewhat useful.
No shade to you personally, just that it's really convenient that things work out this way.
Oh yeah this whole thing is very very much convenient to Nvidia and data center companies lmao.
I still think they're incentivized to make the models more efficient as they could then squeeze out even more profit, it's just that it's a property of the technology itself that it doesn't really work well until you have bajillions of parameters.
The more you understand how it works the less you like it.
That's the dialectic! There's a mutual antagonism between understanding AI and wanting to use AI.
A lot of work I have been doing recently has involved modernizing a codebase that is too old and bc I have the knowledge of what should be done I am able to just let an LLM rip 80% and guide it to fix the remaining 20. Have never used these chat/search bots for anything else
The code also isn't well documented or self-documenting so it's also really good at parsing related files and reading packages to figure out how they work for me way faster than searching the internet or guessing
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The more water people drink, the less thirsty they are.
So this is paywalled? I can't just read their conclusions I guess.
How dare you question a billion dollar industry profiting off of %99 government funded research?
this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2025
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