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by bm3719 1mo ago
Corollary to your complaints: Another downside that I haven't seen on anyone's AI hatelist yet is that it crowds out all other discussion. What happened to everyone talking about languages, protocols, algorithms, architecture, et
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by bm3719 1mo ago
Agreed that the Lacanian subject is relevant in this context... it's a thin wisp of a subject; any less there, and it'd be the Deleuzian non-subject. (In one interpretation) Lacan's subject comes into being within the signif
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by bm3719 2mo ago
> Can we talk about something interesting now? No, we can't, because when we replace a part of ourselves, we become less interesting, less whole. We no longer are capable of those deep technical (or philosophical, or whatever) disc
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by bm3719 2mo ago
I find these answer options constraining. Most are on a single spectrum of good/bad for each question, ignoring alternatives like resignation, inevitability, indifference, and N/A. For example, someone could think that genAI is
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by bm3719 2mo ago
They explicitly state that they will use your data to train. Here's the important line from ChatGPT's Terms of Use: Our use of content. We may use Content to provide, maintain, develop, and improve our Services, comply
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by bm3719 2mo ago
No ethical position on the message itself is taken here. Brood parasitism is an ecological niche. The right could do this as well, if they can capture the levers to do so, and as another reply pointed out, perhaps they're getting bet
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by bm3719 2mo ago
I mean that in the Lacanian sense. This is the symbolic Oedipal, not the Freudian familial romance. Reductively, transistion through the Lacanian Oedpial creates the linguistic subject, structuring the unconscious as a language with a rel
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by bm3719 2mo ago
I think the way the left's exterior reproduction's been successful is by leveraging the market more effectively. By that, I mean that global capital has already done a great job of mapping and stratifying our desires. If you lik
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by bm3719 3mo ago
Pride was once pretty much universally considered a sin, usually because it results in things like arrogance, lack of humility, and a general disconnect from the reality of one's own self. Nationalism often takes the form of pride and
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by bm3719 3mo ago
Here's a potential solution: We accelerate capitalism (which AI is becoming synonymous with). The process described here will occur (it's probably inevitable anyway, as the essay's author would agree), giving us an economy o
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by bm3719 3mo ago
I've been explicitly asked to do this by management at a long-former employer who cited "improving" visible metrics. I just ignored it, but one member of the interview team quit in protest. In retrospect, I should've d
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by bm3719 4mo ago
Israel has been at this for awhile. One problem with engaging an enemy is that you enter an interplay, a dialectic if you will, with them. As you shape them, so may they do the same to you. Certainly war has shaped Israeli society, and b
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by bm3719 4mo ago
An acquaintance of mine offers training services to state LE and likes to make a point about that: We like to think that police are experts at firearms, but in actuality, a civilian trainer who specializes in the topic is usually far better
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by bm3719 7mo ago
All this is only true in the singular relation sense. The car has had a scattering effect. It's made the suburb possible. Most of our family members and past friends are scattered all over due to the car's existence in the firs
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by bm3719 7mo ago
Maybe everyone shouldn't have a car anyway. Turn on the satellite layer in Google maps sometime, and you'll see how it's affected everything about how we organize society. Life for most humans is just sitting in various box
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by bm3719 7mo ago
I agree, that's why they lasted as long as they did. It's a strategy that works, but only for awhile. They tried to use the apparatuses of global capital without fully integrating within it. That makes them an exteriority from
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by bm3719 7mo ago
Setting aside any considerations on our side: for this war (or really any war), it's worth turning the chessboard around to look at things from your adversary's perspective as much as possible. If you're the Iranian regime, t
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by bm3719 7mo ago
You won't eat, because you won't be. Industrial economic systems (including capitalism, which is better at it, but also Soviet communism for another) will always reinvest some of its surplus back into itself. That form is either
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by bm3719 7mo ago
There is no free Google product. You pay for all of them with your data, your privacy, and your attention. Your data is worth far more to them than a $13/month subscription fee. In fact, if you do pay it, the data becomes even more v
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by bm3719 7mo ago
It seems crazy and impossible now, but imagine this notion: Software should serve the needs of the user. Software that does things the user doesn't want, like try to trick money out of him, waste his bandwidth, or fill his screen with
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by bm3719 7mo ago
AI is an attractor. In general, attractors absent barriers have the potential to act as a resource shredder in the context of an ecosystem where stability was predicated on said barriers being present. I called AI a "capital shredder&
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by bm3719 7mo ago
Thanks, been awhile since I read it. I think the only solution is territorialization if you want to preserve the human. If you don't care about that (or think that it's not possible anyway), then yes, accelerate.
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by bm3719 7mo ago
We can blame the individual for the cost we've outsourced into him. When he collapses under that load, we can attribute it to personal shortcomings. Some people survive, even thrive, in the current environment, after all. We've
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by bm3719 7mo ago
Within the Landian system, I suspect he'd say the answer is economic "territorialization", the economic equivalent to the mechanism originally defined by Deleuze+Guattari in A Thousand Plateaus based on the territoriality o
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by bm3719 7mo ago
This is the trade-off to connectivity and removing frictional barriers (i.e., globalism). This is the economic equivalent of what Nick Land and Spandrell called the "IQ shredder". Spandrell said of Singapore: Singapore is an
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by bm3719 8mo ago
It's set by people for whom the clock serves as a mechanism to garner alarmist attention whenever they feel short of it. In so doing, they diminish not just themselves, but science as a whole. At best, the clock is indeed a measuring
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What Machines Want(miskatonian.com)
2 points by bm3719 8mo ago|0 comments
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by bm3719 8mo ago
Was in one of those chain book stores recently and decided to stop by the philosophy section. It was tiny, only taking up part of a single shelf in a huge store. I was surprised to find about half of the titles were on Stoicism and closel
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by bm3719 8mo ago
GPTZero calls this text 98% AI-generated. Narrative warfare is real. Be especially careful when it's something that conforms to your priors. The cost for agitprop is now effectively zero.
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by bm3719 10mo ago
Why bother? If you run updates, it'll randomly crap on all your custom settings anyway. You win, MS. I thought I could keep a Windows box around for the occasional game and as an emergency backup for when I need random peripherals to

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