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Liberalism is literally the problem here. It’s an ideology that exists to justify capitalist relations that emerged as a counter to feudalism. It consists of two main parts. First is political liberalism which focuses on individual freedoms, democracy, and human rights. Second is economic liberalism which centers around free markets, private property, and wealth accumulation. These two aspects form a contradiction. Political liberalism purports to support everyone’s freedom, while economic liberalism enshrines private property rights as sacred in laws and constitutions, effectively removing them from political debate.
Liberalism justifies the use of state violence to safeguard property rights, over supporting ordinary people, which contradicts the promises of fairness and equality. Private property is seen as a key part of individual freedom under liberalism, and this provides the foundational justification for the rich to keep their wealth while ignoring the needs of everyone else. The talks of promoting freedom and democracy is just a fig leaf to provide cover for justifying capitalist relations.
This is an excellent primer on the subject https://orgrad.wordpress.com/articles/liberalism-the-two-faced-tyranny-of-wealth
when you definitely know what RAND is
nah, we know what the burger reich wants cause they published a literal policy paper explaining it https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR3000/RR3063/RAND_RR3063.pdf
let’s be generous maybe he thinks Belarus is the mastermind here 🤣
161·3 天前Sure, no human society is perfect. However, it’s clear to anybody who has even a shred of intellectual honesty that on the whole Chinese society works in the interest of the people of China. Let mew know if you’re still struggling with this concept.
Oh, congratulations on achieving the impossible. I wasn’t aware I was speaking to an omniscient deity floating in a vacuum.
Saying “I have no bias” doesn’t make you neutral, it just means you’re dangerously unaware of how human cognition works. Bias isn’t a character flaw you can opt out of, it is the inevitable result of having a subjective point of view. Unless you possess total, universal information (which you don’t), your entire worldview is built on the limited data you’ve consumed, the specific environment you inhabit, and the people you interact with.
You are filtering reality through a unique lens just like the rest of us. Pretending you aren’t doesn’t make you “objective”, it just makes you the most unreliable narrator in the room because you’re too blind to see your own blind spots.
Exactly, just imagine standing up for the atrocities that CPC subjects the people of China to. I mean just look at these horrors!
90% of families in the country own their home giving China one of the highest home ownership rates in the world. What’s more is that 80% of these homes are owned outright, without mortgages or any other leans. https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2016/03/30/how-people-in-china-afford-their-outrageously-expensive-homes
The real (inflation-adjusted) incomes of the poorest half of the Chinese population increased by more than four hundred percent from 1978 to 2015, while real incomes of the poorest half of the US population actually declined during the same time period. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w23119/w23119.pdf
From 1978 to 2000, the number of people in China living on under $1/day fell by 300 million, reversing a global trend of rising poverty that had lasted half a century (i.e. if China were excluded, the world’s total poverty population would have risen) https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/China’s-Economic-Growth-and-Poverty-Reduction-Angang-Linlin/c883fc7496aa1b920b05dc2546b880f54b9c77a4
People in China enjoy high levels of social mobility https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/18/world/asia/china-social-mobility.html
Student debt in China is virtually non-existent because education is not run for profit. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jlim/2016/08/29/why-china-doesnt-have-a-student-debt-problem/
China massively invests in public infrastructure. They used more concrete in 3 years than US in all of 20th century https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2014/12/05/china-used-more-concrete-in-3-years-than-the-u-s-used-in-the-entire-20th-century-infographic/
China also built 27,000km of high speed rail in a decade https://www.railjournal.com/passenger/high-speed/ten-years-27000km-china-celebrates-a-decade-of-high-speed/
What sane person would want to live in that sort of a hellscape.
2·3 天前The other aspect that’s worth keeping in mind is software. If Huawei focuses on optimizing the software side they can easily compensate for hardware being slower. Modern software is incredibly bloated, and there’s plenty of low hanging fruit there.
a temporarily inconvenienced billionaire appears
lol seems like it
lol I just found it, I have no idea what was used to make it, why does it matter even?
1·7 天前The Chinese room thought experiment is deeply idiotic, it’s frankly incredible to me that people discuss it seriously. Hofstadter does a great tear down of it in I Am a Strange Loop.
That’s like asking what’s the difference between a chef who has memorized every recipe in the world and a chef who can actually cook. One is a database and the other has understanding.
The LLM you’re describing is just a highly sophisticated autocomplete. It has read every book, so it can perfectly mimic the syntax of human thought including the words, the emotional descriptions, and the moral arguments. It can put on a flawless textual facade. But it has no internal experience. It has never burned its hand on a stove, felt betrayal, or tried to build a chair and had it collapse underneath it.
AGI implies a world model which is an internal, causal understanding of how reality works, which we build through continous interaction with it. If we get AGI, then it’s likely going to come from robotics. A robot learns that gravity is a real, it learns that “heavy” isn’t an abstract concept but a physical property that changes how you move. It has to interact with its environment, and develop a predictive model that allows it to accomplish its tasks effectively.
This embodiment creates a feedback loop LLMs completely lack: action -> consequence -> learning -> updated model. An LLM can infer from the past, but an AGI would reason about the future because it operates with the same fundamental rules we do. Your super-LLM is just a library of human ghosts. A real AGI would be another entity in the world.
It’s powered by a miniature nuclear reactor meaning that it can stay airborne long enough to fly around the world and approach targets from any direction.
There’s literally nothing on the market that even remotely compares to M series chips right now in terms of performance and battery life. Macbooks are great machines in terms of hardware, and while macos has been enshittifying, it’s still a unix that works fine for dev work. So plenty of experienced devs use macs. You can also put Asahi Linux on them, which works fairly well at this point. The only thing that it can’t do is hibernate. Of course, app selection with it is more limited, but still works as a daily driver.