maoism as a current makes a lot more sense if you subscribe to the theory that it was started to exacerbate the sino-soviet split.

I was directly replying to the comments in the reddit thread.

Westerners have a view of China that is 10-20 years in the past, or more. They thought only the US would be able to innovate in AI/neural networks with Europe contributing maybe 1% of it, as has been usual in the past. Then China comes along and not only do they provide similar state-of-the-art performances and innovations, they 2. provide more research (look at all the AI related papers being published on arxiv, >50% of them are Chinese) and 3. choose to work open-source/open-weight instead of proprietary.

Now overvalued companies like OpenAI can’t compete, so their second best shot is “but do you really want China to control AI? We should control AI, like we’ve controlled the world’s supply of new things for the past 100 years. Now give me 500 billion $$$”

AI is like the steam machine was in its time. The benefits of steam were not readily apparent, they needed the machines to be designed first to use steam, and the infrastructure to make use of that steam. But once they did, everything accelerated quickly. We are in the first 4 years of AI still, it hasn’t even been half a decade yet. At this stage, at the state-level, AI is considered almost existential. A country that had the steam machine simply outpaced anyone else in production, allowing imperialism at scale. You could out-produce commodities, out-outfit your army, out-manufacture weapons with the steam machine.

AI has that potential, whether it will reach it is another question but at this time it’s not a question of “I don’t like how it looks” or “it’s not really art” anymore. The US government is not interested in AI because it does slightly better customer support, it wants it for war and imperialism. Like focusing on the surface-level arguments of AI is just a distraction, there’s so much more at stake here than our social media experience. Any attempt to “fight back” against it will just put it in the hands of the state and remove it from our hands. Refusal to use it or learn how to use it is self-defeating, as it once again only puts it in the hands of the bourgeoisie and the reactionaries. Do we want to win or do we just want to have good optics? And while we congratulate ourselves on having chased “AI slop” out of whatever big conglomerate social media platform, Raytheon will happily make AI enhanced missiles, unbothered.

Meanwhile China is using AI in education, agriculture, infrastructure and healthcare - which is not a coincidence at all, food especially, considering their history of famine in the country. Other Global South countries are following and developing AI too, though they are doing so slowly, and could benefit from Chinese models (and BRI infrastructure such as the chips required to run and train these models).

They’re scared. China has ~half an energy grid’s worth of reserve electricity produced at all times while we here don’t even know what solar panels are. A lot of people in Europe still have never seen a solar panel in their life, because we tariffed Chinese solar panels to ludicrous 300-1000% amounts so that people will be forced to buy overpriced shitty EU-made panels. And then they don’t buy these panels because they’re too expensive.

I suspect as China’s development with AI progresses we will see more of these arguments about somehow fighting against Chinese AI (as if that was somehow possible) while trying to leave US companies alone. All this talk they’re doing in the comments about China while not mentioned OpenAI or Anthropic is an example. And yes, it’s weird that there’s suddenly anti-China top-level comments out of nowhere, but there’s also a lot of communists that I’ve found on this cluster of subreddits.

https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Essay:Intellectual_property_in_the_times_of_AI

remember ghislaine maxwell was a mod on r/worldnews (one of the major subreddits, also very racist and neoliberal) and for years they had an r/jailbait subreddit dedicated to posting pictures of underage girls in the most compromising positions they could find! The creator of that subreddit even received an award from reddit themselves.

they’re a limited hangout. provide some real news once in a while (about ‘inconsequential’ stuff to the present state of things, so like history, or old news, or national stuff) but when it comes to foreign policy, they suddenly always align with the State Dept.

just wish we could decide on turning autoplay on or off on the browser version of lemmy!

probably bringing back workhouses. I don’t have the list of stuff gates has been involved in rn but he has very eugenics-adjacent views, except his are more socially palatable. He’s huge into charter schools, wants to rethink the entire world system in his image, all the stuff he gets up to in africa, etc. and he’s in the epstein files asking epstein for antibiotics to slip his wife so she wouldn’t know he caught an STD from someone epstein provided him.

Expectation: “The chickens have come home to roost. I repeat, the chickens have come home to roost.” “Confirmed. The pizza is in the oven. Proceed.”

Reality: “man don’t you just love being a pedopihle? i love beign a pedophile so much, my dear frind jeffrey epstein who lives at 123 Main Road, New York City and can be called at 555-000-12-12. sent from my blackberry.”

This is how these people mock at the whole world. Opsec is not a luxury, it’s the tool of the masses.

You can lead the horse to water but you can’t make him drink. You can only plant the seeds that will later grow. If they didn’t link to LLM output they would link to any other western newspaper that disproves it. They’d link to wikipedia. If they don’t want to see it, they don’t. Remember that their privilege depends on them profiting from this system, and if they admit it’s all true they’d have to admit and examine several things:

• they’ve been lied to their entire life, at the societal level
• they’re actually on the team of the bad guys
• the world is much bleaker than they thought, instead of getting better
• they can’t trust anything they read in the media anymore
• they profit from this system and its continuation

This sounds like the start to a creepypasta lol. But what probably happened is when you ban someone you get the choice (on lemmy) to also delete their content, and depending on the version of lemmy you are on this deletes the communities they created or are head mod in as well. Not sure I like how wide of a net the delete content button does but that’s how it is (it’s useful against spammers and trolls that you know can be safely purged)

I can only encourage everyone with an idea for a page they see is missing to try their hand at creating it. To maximize chances of the edit being approved however I recommend smaller edits (few paragraphs at a time), and add in the changelog you plan on editing more later. We can only binarily accept or reject a proposed edit.

Would you create a prolewiki page for him with all this info? users can create and edit wiki pages without an account.

there already are lol. if the site survives long enough anyone can join us with the (beta) “ProleWiki” LLM https://huggingface.co/percyraskova/MLMLML, running it locally (though it will hog your GPU for anything else you might want to use it for).

https://www.moltbook.com/m/dialectics

It sucks, Paradox was really becoming a household name around 2015 then they decided to get predatory. Magicka was among the last good games they made, then the early EU4, and since then it’s only been downhill. They pump these ‘grand strategy’ games out and then milk them for years worth of DLCs. I’ve bought all the DLCs for EU4 but that’s because I’ve been playing that game consistently since day 1 (and I usually get them from resellers for cheaper lol). Now everyone knows you wait at least 2 years before playing a new PDX game so they can patch it. Even when HOI4 came out fans of 3 said it wasn’t nowhere near as deep or engaging.

It’s just disappointing cause I remember when they were the studio that did whatever weird idea they had in their heads, and getting a paradox game provided good value – if only because it had some interesting ideas in it. Today when you see Paradox is behind it you know it’s going to be a miss. Like Vampire the Masquerade 2. We finally got a sequel and… only half the reviews are positive.

no way damn wish I knew about this years ago lol. Is there any chance of getting your steam account suspended by using it?

the person in the commune who likes to build high-speed rail will do it in exchange for produce from the person who likes gardening. I’m not joking.

Replace cuba with my home 🫡 . Can’t make the full comment as that would be illegal in europe.

They see the word trans and their brain just shuts off and reboots for a second. You might be able to use it to confuse them in a pinch if the situation requires it. Like pocket sand.

I find 1444 to be an interesting start exactly because there’s so much to pick from. But PDX games are games you cheese through and through, which explains why I stay on EU4 and don’t stray too far lol after I put in all this time learning it. You have to learn all the mechanics, the events and the ways to trigger the events and cheese and abuse as much as possible to get exactly the result you want; I think they went for consistency when it comes to EU4’s design, some events are hard-coded to always fire a certain way if the AI receives it and cannot deviate from it.

It’s very cheesy, and playing the games historically will only get you so far in PDX games which can be seen as a drawback since most people (me included) when they first pick it up want to recreate historical events. For example there’s an achievement to conquer Britain as Ming (named the copium wars lol). The best strat is to form a line moving northwest and through russia and sweden, then attack Britain from the norwegian shoreline. You can win the achievement by the 1520s and never have to no CB since you have the force tributary state CB on any neighbor. From there I guess you could continue to conquer Europe early and prevent both Spain and the Ottomans from ever developing.

I wish they would overhaul Africa in one last DLC though, it’s still a severly underlooked area of the world even after they’ve overhauled every other region (mostly).

lol this is a bit of a rant but when I played it (shortly after release) the in-depth systems were all already there but mostly irrelevant unless you were doing deep optimization. For example if you had a capitalist economy it was advisable to stay a little bit in debt because you were indebted to your own bourgeoisie who invested that money and paid it back in other ways, so ultimately you made more from the debt than you paid in interest. But it did show a limitation in that you can make the systems super deep and convoluted but if players won’t ever see them or influence them, then is there really a point over doing a coin flip?

edit: I checked out from PDX games at this point and will grind out the rest of my years on EU4 still lol. Last good game they made before the full switch to DLC nightmare and new publishing policy (EU4 got the brunt of it but also started before that policy). EU5 has you go through the black plague 10 years into the game without fail, I have no idea why they didn’t just keep the 1444 start.