Does anybody have resources on AGI being a real possibilities beyond just a marketing term and, one day, just a mashup of various different things of AI?

I haven't read anything about AGI that isn't a "tech bro" kind of approach. Also, I don't see how AGI is anything more than a marketing term where, once enough shitty jobs are replaced by it, they'll hail it a success and that's pretty much it.

I want an AI, for example, to analyze the material conditions of a country and plan a Communist revolution for me. Can I have that? Will capitalism produce this for me?

Jokes on you, bot, I live in America, I don't have privacy!

He's a gaffe machine.

Why not ask the Chinese government?

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The communism my mother warned me about!

Haha. Stalin's got a way with words for sure. But you are probably right about anarchists not reading him.

Human psychology suggests that major life changes require a lot of time to process the internalization we have while going through them. We have to unpack things and question our own assumptions and be honest with ourselves on things we thought we'd never have to be honest with ourselves about.

I think that most people becoming socialists are coming from the toxic ideology of liberalism. Liberalism is a mental cage, designed to keep people captive in the predominant mode, all while thinking they're actually free! When becoming a socialist, it's a real struggled to free oneself from the shackles of liberal thought. It's really, really tough. And it takes a lot of time, just like any change.

During a transition period from liberalism to socialism (technically, Marxism), people go through large periods of doubt and frustration and pessimism. But don't let that get you off track. It's natural and normal. You're just starting to see the world for what it is, rather than what the powerful want you to believe it is. And the world is confusing and wild and lots of ugly. So it's alarming.

Keep the course. Stay steady on. You'll get out of the murky waters eventually. Once you can use material dialectics to analyze news and current events and history and movies and ... then you'll start realizing that the world was always this way and there's no real sense in getting down about it. Live your life, do your part and push things a little further along.

None of the timings of things are up to us. It's only on us to be ready for when the moment's right. And to be humble enough to also be ready for that moment to be after we're gone. Regardless of the circumstances, a socialist's job is always the same: educate, agitate and organize.

Ferengi are the ultimate capitalist realists.

There is a mismatch between leftists' understanding of theory and their understanding of the real-world development of socialism. I think, though, the more we get interested in how, exactly, we change he world, the more we'll be willing to stop clobbering others over the head and calling them "revisionists" and, instead, we willing to actually learn and understand what AES is up to and how they manage the external and internal threats of the bourgeois (petite or not).

I like the quote from Castro when he had his last visit to China:

Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life.

Cuba has a lot of land-owning people and is still undergoing economic reforms. They're still evolving. And so is China. China's got billionaires. But the existence of these things doesn't mean they are not building socialism. It just means that this is what socialism looks like in our time.

The USA was a bourgeois revolution but it did not end the slave system. It wasn't until later that it could. I think too many leftists fail to realize that during periods of transition (which can last hundreds of years), there is going to necessarily be a mix of elements from both systems (old and new). But this is precisely what material dialectics says will be the case.

It's whack, unless we're talking about a glove you wear while eating ice cream so the melted ice cream doesn't get on your hands!

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