Bug (Wet Work) Man

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There’s a calculated risk to be taken with these technologies. Can we extract collective capacity from them faster than they can be used to consolidate control? I think yes, but not if we’re distracted by arguments about whether or not they should exist at all. We aren’t in a position to act on

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use. We have to assume OpenAI and Anthropic are wantonly flaunting their own privacy policies, of course, but we can’t make the mistake of treating that as being THAT much different from what already existed. What’s changed is that capabilities that were once only available to glassy-eyed true

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Get rid of women’s sports

Culture ship names thread: Historically Idealist Insistence Predator We’ll Get There When We Get There (I like this for a go-fast GSV) If There Was Ever A Bad Time It’ll Be Tomorrow Well I’m Not Going To Taste it Scrapheap Gourmand Gentle Rebuke (Gotta be some crazy warship) Frail Kindness My God

It’s Spelled GravitY

Culture ship names thread: Historically Idealist Insistence Predator We’ll Get There When We Get There (I like this for a go-fast GSV) If There Was Ever A Bad Time It’ll Be Tomorrow Well I’m Not Going To Taste it Scrapheap Gourmand Gentle Rebuke (Gotta be some crazy warship) Frail Kindness My God

What Is To Be Done About The Chronic Deficiency Of Gravitas?

It’s literally just now hitting me that a man in a bathrobe really knows where his towel is.

I reckon the most important ability to cultivate as a materialist, socialist, communist, or (if you *insist*) leftist is to recognize reaction in yourself and kill it. You have to be sprinting away from your reflex to make things stay the same or go back to the way they were. There’s nothing sacred,

Been thinking more and more that maybe we missed the boat for Leninism. Wondering if maybe we’re to the point a vanguard is neither possible nor desirable. Could it be that the way forward is to prepare for mass-proletarianization, and focus on building class consciousness and collective capacity-

We’re so fucked. All the energy being put into anti-ai work is useless. No one is going to listen to a bunch of barely-organized workers that pose no real threat saying what will be heard as “cripple the economy because we’re scared of/don’t like it”. Meanwhile, the blood drinking, child-abusing

sociopathic narcissists ruling class figure out amongst themselves how to maximize and allocate the control the technology gives them. We have to formulate a line that gets everyone facing the enemy instead of each other. Dogmatic anti and pro-ai people in particular need to be willing to compromise

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The apparatus of collective meaning-making is now literally fixed capital. There’s a lot of abstract, subjective “firsts” that genAI is claiming, but I think the most significant one that there’s a single point of control over how we determine what anything means.

The shit is not going anywhere. It’s going to be subsumed and integrated into everything a computer can be squeezed into. There will be no such thing as rejecting AI. Participating in society will be contingent on it. The choice will be either primitivism or allowing yourself to be shaped

The apparatus of collective meaning-making is now literally fixed capital. There’s a lot of abstract, subjective “firsts” that genAI is claiming, but I think the most significant one that there’s a single point of control over how we determine what anything means.

This means sustainably co-evolving with our environment. We have to radically consider what “socially necessary” means and refers to.