Yeah, it’s fine. Less western content, which is probably a good thing. A lot of it just really wholesome.

Hope you’ll be alright, the fact they caught it early is good at least.

One thing I’d add here is to also set up backups from the start. It’s a life saver if you do end up borking your system somehow.

Indeed, and I really appreciate being able to have productive discussions with people where everybody just wants to learn and understand things better rather than score internet points. I find most online spaces encourage people to act in performative fashion because they’re based on engagement farming. Here people just want to have a normal human conversation about subjects they have interest in.

Lemmygrad has been great for my mental health as well. Just being able to interact with people who broadly share your world view is incredibly helpful. You can disagree, but you have a shared framework where you can talk through these disagreements and come to an understanding. When you’re talking to people in the liberal mainstream, the world view is so divergent that you just end up talking past each other. I find there’s a mental taxing to living in a society where your views significantly diverge from the mainstream. While I don’t feel personally discriminated against, I have to run a constant mental filter in social situations whenever a political topic comes up. It’s incredibly exhausting because you end up feeling like you’re an alien. You’re speaking the same language, but have a completely different understanding of the world. I can only imagine how much worse it is living in a society like Germany that’s now hysterical in regards to Russia.

That’s what I’ve noticed as well. I very much agree that it’s the difference in the underlying material conditions that shape the public consciousness and the expression in the media. Since there are no solutions to the problems within the system, and we’re not allowed to question the system itself, the only available conclusion is that things can only keep getting worse from here on out.

I’ve been using this app and find it’s fantastic https://www.superchinese.com/

They break up the lessons into small chunks, and you practice speaking, learning sentence structure, and characters. I found it was incredibly helpful for me.

It’s truly amazing for me how people look at the way China is developing and confidently claim that it’s capitalist. Like if China is capitalist why are things that aren’t happening in any capitalist country constantly happening there.

It truly is amazing to watch how fast technology advances in China, and how quickly it finds its way into day to day life and industry. Boston Dynamics was showing off fancy demos for like a decade now, and none of that ended up seeing any real world use aside from small pilot projects. Eventually they got sold off to a Korean company, and I’m still not aware of any big implementations of their tech. Meanwhile in China, humanoid robots are already being used all over the place from factories to stuff like power grid inspection.

This kind of stuff illustrates dexterity of the robots and their ability to maintain balance while performing quick actions. Even though the routine is programmed ahead of time, the robot still has to adjust on the fly.

This is the foundation for making robots that can navigate and interact with the environment effectively. It’s basically the nervous and balance system.

Then higher level AI models can focus on actually setting goals and accomplishing them, and high level commands will be delegated to the underlying platform to execute.

It’s akin to the way humans operate as well. When you go to grab a cup from the table, you think about your actions at high level. You’re not conscoously aware of all the muscle contractions and movement adjustments that are constantly happening. You’re just thinking of the high level goal. I want to move my hand in this direction until I reach the cup, then I want to grasp it, then retract the hand.

I expect that we’re basically going to get real life Star Wars droids in a few years. You’ll have affordable robots that you can communicate with using natural language, and that will be able to accomplish a lot of common tasks in human environments.

Evolutionary it makes sense that we remember any experience that had a strong impact on us, whether it’s good or bad. The brain filters out and generalizes our day to day routines, but things that are exceptional are memorable.

If this means of democratization of online community and communication was to be truly democratic, it would be a system that requires the least amount of technical knowledge and resources.

That doesn’t really follow. Marxists acknowledge the necessity of division of labor and hierarchies. People with specific skills end up serving specific types of roles within the community. The notion of flat structures and direct democracy is an anarchist concept. Technically knowledgeable workers are still part of the working class, which is people who sell labour for a living. Their interests stand in direct opposition with the interests of capital owning class just as do those of all other workers.

This brings me to AI, and it’s current implementation and design, and it’s underlying motivations and desires. These systems suffer from the same issues that this very platform suffer from, which is, that they are stained with the values of capital at their heart, and they are in no means a technology that is “neutral” in its design or its implementation.**

This is a false premise because this technology exists outside capitalism. Community developed models or models developed in countries like China where different political and material conditions exist clearly fall outside capitalist framework. Given that this technology exists, and it’s being actively developed outside the west, I don’t really think this premise holds water.

It is the democratization of skill. It is the alienation of the Artist from the labor of producing art. As such, it does not matter that this technology has become “democratized” via open-source channels because at the heart of the technology, it’s intention and design, it’s implementation and commodification, lay the alienation of the artist from the process of creating art.

While Marx recognized how technology would be used to alienate workers within the capitalist framework, Marx never advocated against technological progress or automation. In fact, his whole argument is that the alienation of workers is precisely what sets the stage for socialism as capitalist system becomes increasingly unpalatable to the working majority.

China is a vibrant and powerful market economy, one that is governed and controlled by a technocratic party who have a profound understanding of market forces.

You’re coming dangerously close to making a fallacy of equating markets with capitalism here. Markets are not at odds with socialism in any way, nor is China even the first market driven socialist economy. I urge you to read up on Hungary and Yugoslavia as prior examples.

It should be remembered here, that the market economy of China operates within a cage, with no political influence on the state, but that does not make it immune to the demands and desires of Capitalists at the helm of states abroad.

This is a hand wavy statement that does not directly support your assertion regarding DeepSeek. You would have to explicitly establish the mechanism that you believe affects the way DeepSeek is subverted by external capitalist forces.

So at its heart, it has not changed what AI does for people, only how expensive AI is for capitalists in year-to-year operations. What good is this open-source tool if what is being open sourced are the same demands and desires of the capitalist class?

You’re once again using a false premise here. The obvious answer is that lower power cost makes this tool available to regular people. It wrests control of the tools out of the hands of capitalists and makes it possible for everyone to use them in any way they see fit. Another way to put it, is that it puts the means of production in the hands of the workers.

They are not democratizing the process of Artists and Laborers training their own models to perform specific and desired repetitive tasks as part of their own labor process in any form.

That’s literally what’s happening. AI tools like ComfyUI are already being used by artists to collaborate and bring their visions to life, particularly for smaller studios. These tools streamline the workflow, allowing for a faster transition from the initial sketch to a polished final product. They also facilitate an iterative and dynamic creative process, encouraging experimentation and leading to unexpected, innovative results. Far from replacing artists, AI expands their creative potential, enabling smaller teams to tackle more ambitious projects.

However, every attempt to restrict and manage the use of generative AI today, is simply an effort to prolong the full proletarianization process of the arts. Embracing it now only signals your alliance to that process.

It’s simply delaying the inevitable without actually doing anything to improve the situation in the long run. The AI boycott movement is peak liberal idealism. It’s the political equivalent of shaking a fist at the sky. Unhappy with the tech? Can’t imagine real action? Just vote it away! As if moral posturing ever stopped a single corporation.

Real action involves building instead of pleading. Open development where artists, engineers, and communities co-create tools is the only path to wrest control from Silicon Valley’s black boxes. You don’t vote out exploitation, you have to put in work to replace it. My whole argument in the original post is that the way forward is to build tools outside capitalist framework, instead of ceding control to corporations which is what rejecting the use of this tech will ultimately accomplish.

he’s a patsoc

lmao decades of propaganda are now in shambles all cause Americans started directly talking to people actually living in China

think that’s Jackson Hinkle

While living in the West may indeed seem depressing at present, it’s crucial to remember that the West only represents a minority portion of the global population. A broader perspective reveals a more hopeful picture. The emergence of BRICS as a counterforce against Western imperialism is a significant development. Many countries are moving away from using the US dollar, and a whole new economic system is evolving outside of the West. Africa and Latin America are showing signs of independence, while much of Asia is shifting towards China which is now an economic and technological superpower, dominating the global economy. In my view, we are witnessing the final days of Western hegemony, and if a nuclear catastrophe can be prevented, the future looks promising.

While climate change is indeed a pressing concern, it’s crucial to maintain an optimistic outlook. One reason for hope lies in the progress China has made in transitioning away from fossil fuels. Given that Chinese scientists are equally aware of the issue as their Western counterparts, the actions taken by China suggest that the situation is not hopeless. It appears that China does not anticipate problems to be so catastrophic that they can’t be overcome.

Though we are living through turbulent times, these circumstances won’t last forever. It’s important to maintain a forward-looking perspective and focus on the bigger picture. The struggle against capitalism has been ongoing for over a century now, and the current moment represents just one chapter in a long narrative. The ending has not yet been written.