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But yea I saw people posting about it and that was the easiest reference to find on my phone

I quite like Ed's writing for a cathartic rant against the stupidity of AI.

Has anyone got any reading recommendations on the LLM insanity from a marxist perspective though? Assuming AI can replace labour in some industries, it immediately comes up against the LTV, with the value of the output immediately going to almost zero. Companies therefore have to maintain monopolistic false scarcity, which of course tech companies are already trying to do, but it seems to have wider implications for the economy - technofeudalism I guess.

I agree, I think this could work. Google already has featured snippets, this just feels like an extension to that. I'm pretty sure those snippets often screwed over the sites they were taken from too, because people read them but don't click through. But the AI summary ensures they get even less credit/ad revenue.

Any high-value search terms and Google hides the summary. So you either get ads or AI slop for every search.

Hell yeah dude

...I should rewatch The Wire

Hey it's my little corner of settler-colonialism in the South Pacific. I can throw out a few thoughts here, although take everything with a grain of salt.

Many of the points can be looked at through a familiar settler-colonial lens. Think the Canada of the Pacific. Maori arrive about 500 years ago, with the Brits beginning colonisation about 200 years ago. Familiar story of decimation of the Māori population through introduced disease, violence and land dispossession. The nuance here is some of the concessions Māori were able to get from the British, most notably Te Tiriti (note: it's a very short text, worth reading if you're interested). This has helped to get: dedicated Māori seats in parliament, some reparations for stolen land, co-governance of some land and assets, etc.

This goes along with significant racism towards Māori (and Pasifica) that has always been a major part of our politics but is currently being leveraged in a more American style culture war approach by the right. E.g. demanding government departments to use English names

In terms of foreign relations and economy: Our economy consists of exporting milk powder and trees to China (a mostly lactose intolerant country?), Tourism (don't look too closely at how fucked the land is from all the dairy cows), consultants sending emails, service workers serving the consultants, and majorly: investing in houses.

Economically we are completely reliant on China, but culturally aligned with the UK and more recently the US. Which is going to make the next decade... Interesting.

King Oreo and queen Biscoff

This was my primary radicalising factor. It’s easy to get to a position of: the current capitalist structure is going to wipe out humanity, therefore any option is on the table (malthusians btfo). Makes it easy to break through red scare propaganda, as any argument like “but we’ll have less choice of breakfast cereal” is obviously irrelevant.

Yooo same. That ripping sound as the tooth comes out #neverforget

I guess you probably don't want hostages learning too much about the tunnel network either, in case they are able to negotiate a swap

I’m surprised the punchline wasn’t “I identify as someone not being genocided”