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This is one of the core reasons I have come to the belief that using Chinese platforms will serve us better than using western FOSS projects like the fediverse.

The response to the fediverse has been to coopt, and the response to tiktok has been to outright ban, which clearly implies bourgeois entities believe the former can be used to serve their interests and the latter cannot.

It is clear they feel that Chinese platforms are more resilient to their operations than homegrown open source ones, evidenced by the fact that they can trivially deploy LLM bots to any server or spin up their own.

he rise of macine learning and LLM usage aren't a concrete step towards AGI.

Agreed entirely with LLMs. However, creating and deploying LLMs and ML will broadly create the conditions required to be able to bring about AGI. Developing an educated tech workforce, ML domain expertise, and chip manufacturing is a necessary step and one that doing LLM and genAI bullshit helps accomplish.

ML is broad enough to include the same architecture biological brains operate on simulated on silicon, so while pedantic 🤓, it is likely a significant step towards general intelligence.

Yeah, LLMs suck ass, but they need not be intelligent to yield extreme influence capabilities. The average person won't notice a person in a crowd that has 8 fingers on each hand, nor will they care so long as it supports their preferred narrative.

I'm not a bazinga that believes we (or China) will LLM our way into a utopia in a decade or two. LLMs will not become intelligent.

However, I believe AGI is inevitable, will provide a massive first mover advantage, and will enable capabilities for those who wield it to subjugate those who don't. That means it is imperative that proletarian forces wield it before capitalists do.

Be for real lol. You're posting on one of the only places on the internet that isn't completely owned by the bourgeoisie. Your reach is already limited by segregating yourself on this site. Pretending that posting on "the internet" (e.g. the biggest sites) which is mostly controlled by gigantic bourgeoisie interests and petite bourgeoisie interests is a purely proletarian act is silly. In practice "freedom to post" is ancillary to feeding you advertising. You are playing in their sandbox and have always been.

I knew my comment would inevitably get this response.

Reaffirming that I do not believe that posting is praxis. With regard to bourgeois owned platforms, it is without question any serious revolutionary discussion that cannot be coopted will get squashed. Occasionally they fail to control the narrative, and the limited opportunities we have to sneak in counter narratives are more easily squashed with deployments of large scale LLM opposition. Obviously we should have no confidence of using their platforms to counter their interests to any effect besides finding like-minded people and taking interactions off their platforms.

What makes LLMs different from existing tools available to bourgeois platforms is the ability to extend into public spaces they do not directly control like the fediverse or BBS forums and image boards.

The inherent contradictions in capitalism make it effectively impossible for this technology to be really gate kept from proles over time without a literal crackdown on ownership or development.

Gatekeeping is not required, especially not preventing the purchase of GPUs.

But even taking account purchasing, corpos and NED orgs can benefit from economies of scale, whereas people going to Amazon or Best Buy will be limited to a handful of units at a time. This is the least significant limitation we face.

The asymmetry is not just the accumulation of GPUs, but also other resources like IP addresses and uniformity of deployment. Individual proles or small orgs will not be able to launch campaigns similar to how a NED funded org, tech PR team, or other multinational corporation. Our IPs and accounts will be blocked, theirs whitelisted. Our efforts will be disparate and unable to react to real-time information like sentiment analysis, theirs will. Any three letter org can probably go to Facebook or Google and be handed hundreds of thousands of real looking, aged accounts.

Per GPU, they will be able to spew more LLM bullshit than us given, even on our own platforms, because they have organizational advantages.

It becomes necessary for proles to find a tactic that allows them to make the equivalent of a Hamas piss rocket or a Quds drone, something that is incredibly cheap but because of the capitalist state of the world requires a wasteful amount money to defend against.

Strongly agree that something like this is needed. However, what enables the asymmetry here is a limitation on material resources and labor. No such limitation exists with digital systems that cannot be trivially copied and deployed by bourgeois interests.

Only idea I have for something like this is a system that requires user verification by existing members, possibly gatekept by irl meetings and capped at some rate per user. Few people use the fediverse because of tiny barriers to entry. No one would tolerate a system that imposes more burdens.

DDoS prevention solutions are probably capable of thwarting most technological solutions we can come up with to create our own asymmetries.

The type of software that major botnets/intelligence services/ad companies specializing in guerilla advertising was is called a Persona Management Systems.

Do you have any specific knowledge on the characteristics, capabilities, or implementation of these? I would be very interested in learning more.

Only one party needs to collapse for the dialectic to switch to reform vs. revolution.

Still too high

These people are all capitalists with many competing interests. Will be entertaining to see the ways in which this prevents coherent policy decisions from being made.

China is even out-bazingaing the US now.

God, I love this man

Lunchly

Not sure what this is, but I'm guessing it is something along the lines of adult Lunchables?

🎶 It can only mean one thing:

weekly fecal transplants