Was it him or Bob Ross who was a sniper in Vietnam?

Lemme guess, this is the one time a landlord ever forgot to jack up the rent

Completely agreed.

I just don't think what we do in the present should be dominated by the possibility of developing AGI in 50 years

I agree, but I think that the ecosystem that AGI develops within decades from now will develop from the ecosystem that is currently developing LLMs and genAI. All the same components are required.

While super intelligence is far off in the future, but the reasoning systems and architectures required for it will be developed in the coming decades, of which the intermediate lesser intelligent systems will provide capabilities that accelerate the development of improved intelligent systems.

It will be necessary for China or some other AES state to be ahead of bourgeois entities long before AGI can meaningfully iterate upon itself or gains can provide compounding results.

Similarly to the USSR developing nuclear weapons shortly after the US prevented the US from using them for heinous acts to enforce their hegemony, China must do the same with AI, but even earlier given how willing the US will be to deploy these systems without carrying the immediate backlash of vaporizing millions of people.

Thank you for this info. Lots of great launch points for looking deeper into this.

my point is that we have always been playing catch up and these tools allow us to catch up significantly as well. These tools raise our capability floor to heights that were not possible before.

Observation of the development of FOSS ecosystems seems to back this up and does give me some hope for the state of technology to build alternatives to capitalist run software.

We do have our own asymmetries like not having the profitability requirement and being able to onboard developers without the barriers the constraints of employment impose.

I did a whole bunch of research on this as I thought it would be a fun challenge to build one, I wanted to make it OSS, but I decided against it after I generally thought about what "success" would look like, I was basically thinking of building a turnkey internet nuke.

Curious about this if you can expand upon it without doxxing yourself.

Not sure if I am making the correct inference of what you are hinting at, but my initial thoughts are that something that creates a broad distrust of social media would result in a better world than a world where pre-existing comrades are the only people who have that distrust with no way of breaking through the astroturfed counter narratives.

Given FOSS bros tendency towards liberalism and reactionary ideology, open source would probably be a bad way to deploy something like this. If I had an implementation of "a turnkey internet nuke", I'd be booking a flight to Beijing before releasing it on the open internet...or at least minimally build a cadre of capable comrades I could trust to use it responsibly.

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.

What the dolphins are asking for:

What is the capacity of CECOT?

WHERE WILL THAT WAR TAKE PLACE BLOOMBERG? WHERE WILL THAT WAR TAKE PLACE?