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As a sidenote "putting things in boxes" is the very thing that itself upholds bourgeois democracies and national boundaries as well.

I think this distinction is interesting because if the product of AI is classification it is just a more abstract method of continuing to do the very thing we have been doing for a long time with other statistical methods that fragment data into sets of whatever we wish to draw boundaries to. Essentially it sounds like intensified and far more depersonalized categorizing.

Thank you for the input, I agree that they at least seem closely coupled. But on a system level these systems are different and are producing very different results.

Do we then think this could have been developed anywhere in the capitalist West just as well?

Is not the logic of what sort of things labor power is used on and what projects get implemented affected by the system a product is made in? Would this startup get funded in a capitalist country and is it based on profit as much as the ones we have here? Why is the financial grift missing from the final numbers.

Sitting in my kitchen drinking Vietnamese Red tea and listening to the Nvidia stocks fall.

Great Monday so far.

Could this be considered a living example of a production difference between a system focused on profit and a system focused on use value?

I know China is participating in profit making, but the cost difference here is so gigantic that one would think this makes people see the forest from the trees so to speak.

Great point. What I think is interesting too is that the Fedi itself, with its moderation (AuThoritarianizzzm) is a decentralized way of doing social media and it still has/turns into hierarchies.

It also ends up creating many unintended problems like these sorts of leftists defining a thing and factually suppressing discussions about it. So there is a lot of oppression in this decentralized supposedly anarchist way of organizing the internet commons. And when you claim your system is not hierarchical and has no issues, you never have to address the issues because you can always claim they don't exist at all.

Yes, this is how far I got before I had to close the tab. What even is this? This means nothing. Why does it keep reappearing? How unserious can these people be?

It's pathetic, it's cringe. We would have much better uses for our time as leftists and this is what these people choose to spend their time on. No investigation, no engagement with the arguments or what has actually happened in history.

I just saw a newspaper page from the early 1900s yesterday where one headline just casually stated how the White terror state police had imprisoned hundreds of communists just because they opposed my country joining with the Nazis and were in good relations with the Soviet Union. Seeing a thread like this one after reading that and I just can't.

I almost got to the end, but could not quite read it all. These people are wild, they make me feel pretty depressed about the state of things in the West.

Nice! Thank you.

So all my local civility libs and intellectuals have now all of a sudden had enough of the big socials and are descending on the Fedi with full force. I've seen so much self-commodifying and "civil discourse" in my previously at least remotely leftist shitposty Mastodon feed that I need to tap out from there for a bit. Is there a way to block a whole language on there? I mean these are the sort of people I originally left the big socials for, they are obnoxious. So much outrage about optics, it's exhausting.

"a red-blooded male".

Just Firefox here as well.

"Alienation" is being reworked in my head as the reading advances.