What do you feel you get out of interacting with the news? For me it’s been a little window of hope that I can’t stop peering into

Ok fine, you out baited me- I’m leaving.

Yeah, check the LemmyGrad ML list, we just added everyone from the ACP yesterday. Only question is- why aren’t you on it…? 🫢

My GOAT Caleb Maupin… can’t trust another ML after he was outed…

Yeah many millennials and most of Gen-Z are the exact target demographic of Fascistic ideology given the poor job - life style prospects. I really don’t blame any of them, there is almost noting attractive about being a socialist / communist from a western POV. Fascism is much more inline with the values instilled in us from birth, and tell me- where are the socialist leaders? Where are the communist militias amidst the ICE raids? Where is the alternative? From an outside perspective, the left adjacent seem obsessed with losing.

Honestly, I appreciate being able to talk to someone who is openly imperialist. It’s a nice break from liberal / dem soc mental gymnastics. And the bright side is that someone susceptible to fascist thinking (aka someone who is dissatisfied with neoliberalism) is also open to socialism, fascists just have way better propaganda- and modern critical thought for the average person is what they just saw on their tiktok feed.

I wholly expect an overtly fascist takeover (we’re kinda in it now) once this next lib majority break is over with.

Less Mamdani more Marandi

Personally, it seems to me that many of us have been acculturated to expect some sort of swift-instant-justice.

You can see this demonstrated quite clearly in a lot of online media / video compilations.

The nuclear weapon probably demonstrates some form of this instant justice- even if accompanied by the deaths of untold innocent lives.

Let me say that I agree with you on the jokes not being funny, but I take it as some form of mental cope- to think that China could simply and without much effort- deliver what many think Japan (and by extension their least favorite country: The U.S) owes China, suffrage.

Glad to hear that I am both fascist and ancom adjacent in my views, truly groundbreaking times we are in.

AI in a non-harmful, productive capacity precludes it from being actually intelligent, lest we let it cause us to waste away.

Pointing out what has been studied and well documented (the negative affects of the internet / similar technologies) is not primitivism.

One thing that has been pointed out in my industry is the automation driven degradation of indispensable skills. Things have gotten so bad that the FAA sent out a bulletin begging pilots to hand fly aircraft so that they can maintain their aeronautical aptitude.

A solution you might present and one that is often presented is more automation, pilotless commercial aircraft even. The problem is that these systems much like LLMs love to hallucinate. Autopilot loves to attempt suicide on commercial aircraft. (Commercial aircraft are subject to insane hours and duty cycles exposing them to much more wear than the drones we’re used to seeing.)

I bring this all up as real world comparison of what I expect us all to experience when we each are given our own mental autopilot. Degradation of mental skills.

I am not aware of the exact link you see between my question regarding our species and fascism. But I’ll surrender that it could have been phrased better.

Struggle is in all facets of life, not just what’s physical and aesthetic (which I imagine is what fascists are most concerned with).

I’m not making a point about “survival of the fittest” or something along those line when I speak of struggle. I’m speaking in regards to struggle in interpersonal relationship management, the source of most frustration for many. And I would say that it’s valid to be concerned of struggle like that being removed from our lives in place of two AI talking to eachother when we already have people using LLMs to solve their interpersonal conflicts for them. Another skill that will degrade without struggle.

We already have an overabundance of production in the world, those bereft of the things they need are in that position because in our overindulgence we have decided to take from them as well.

Wanting to restrict AI given it’s purported trajectory in capability is more akin to wanting denuclearization than advocating for the cessation of all things post industrial.

Let me ask anyone reading this one question; Is the theory you consume the backbone of actual substantive practice from you as the authors intended, or is the consumption of theory just a hobby and it’s discussion a way for you to feel a part of a community?

First, I must submit that I am prejudiced against AI, LLMs, and anything under that umbrella.

Next, I will admit that I did not read your entire post- as I found it very difficult to follow. I can say with confidence that it was not written by AI though, as an LLM would have made it a little more coherent.

I did however read the sections I thought most relevant.

Now let me say, I do not care if AI is intelligent. I do not care if AI is bad for the environment. I do not care that AI has the potential to replace “jobs”. I do not care if AI is evil or not.

But what makes me care, and what seems to be missing from your post, is- the point.

Let’s say the world’s AI is ultra intelligent, costs 1 watt an hour to run, and is subserviently friendly- and while we’re at it, why not say that the world has passed universal basic income and the lack of jobs are no longer a concern. What’s the point?

What are we freeing up so much time for? Unfettered consumption?

You speak of evolution, you make some interesting points and comparisons in regards to it. Did we not evolve in the face of struggle? What of our species if we take struggle away? Are we to become the people depicted in WALL-E?

AI will destroy critical thought and interpersonal relationships, like the internet destroyed the community and the aircraft destroyed the family.

These facets of technology may serve to benefit the masses under communism as any tool might. But only if they are completely reconceptualized.

I align with your pessimism.

The fact is, in the U.S especially- you are either a reactionary or you’re left adjacent and too comfortable with your imperialism dividends to make the required sacrifices needed for a mass movement.

I think this is why even some self described MLs advocate for electoral solutions, it’s the easy way out.

Fascism must be allowed to rise and fall in the, U.S americans must go through a revolutionary crisis- it’s the only needle that can penetrate the balloon of american hubris. The last century has proven this, yet we’re told to prolong the inevitable and necessary with soc dem elections / dead-end - non-militant organizing.

Trump, his cronies, and the tech twats have done more to put the U.S and much of the left into a positive position than many of the civil-centric organizing left adjacent people have ever done. People want to talk about material interests driving class consciousness and political fervor- well those are the people driving the needed material conditions.