Lol they get a capable chatbot that blows everything out of the water and suddenly they are like “yeah, this will be the last big thing”

I thought they just did that in the US

Damn. I wonder where all the calculus identities and mathematical puzzle solving abilities in my head disappeared to then. Surely not into the void that is Wolfram Mathematica. Surely not…

When was the last time you did math without a calculator?

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Meh, a nation, just like a corporation, must protect itself. Either way, political economy will eventually “go green”. In a lot of ways it already has.

China is a fascist state, it’s making some of the hardest green pushes on the globe.

It very well might this quarter for insurance companies. It certainly did last year.

Climate change has clear economic impact now, not speculative future impact, and we can already see the finance world reacting to that in heavy handed ways.

Why will people do things for you in exchange for money?

I’ve read a lot of that book. I know about the power theory of money. But the very concept of money is about power changing hands. A person who receives money now has power over someone else. Exploitation occurs when that exchanged power is less than the power the laborer put in. But there’s no way money can exist as power in a purely top down command economy. In that case, power takes a different form, like direct police action. Money as power can only exist when it can be exchanged for goods and services. That’s its gimmick as a medium of power. Other power mediums have other gimmicks.

And under that gimmick, capitalists actually do have a dialectical relationship to workers, and therefore to their means of living, their means of social reproduction, their environment. That’s Marxism.

So all money is power, but not all power is money.

Money is labor hours exchanged for equivalent goods and services. It’s a loop. If there’s no one to labor, and no one to buy the products of that labor, money isn’t anything.

I’m not saying capitalists as individuals do this. I am saying that capitalism as a system will ultimately do this. Capitalism survives is kinda its claim to fame. It was never going to take a long termist view and do what’s best for everyone, but it will protect itself. Whether that means government acts on its behalf, in the form of it acting on behalf of the insurance companies, or by shifting consumerism towards consuming solar panels and electric cars, it will ultimately find a way to exist. Literally no one on earth benefits from human extinction, corporate or otherwise, and eventually human decline WILL hurt sales. That’s when all the nations and corporations of the world will act. It’s bleak but true.

Well except that corporations ultimately profit off of consumer behavior. Keeping consumers alive as a class is indirectly encouraged in capitalism. AI has no such necessary desire.

We can see this in how things like housing and medical insurance industries are suffering from climate change now. Once some other big business is losing profit because of another one exploiting, they will fight, and then the issue will be taken seriously.

But AI also has no innate desires at all, except what we program it to have. So profit and war are almost certainly the goals it will have.

It needs the TikTok algorithm

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This is literally just a tokenization artifact. If I asked you how many r’s are in /0x5273/0x7183 you’d be confused too.

So something I want to point out: plain text encryption exists. Cyphers and the like. You could have your instance use all the standard stuff but with a really hard cypher, and it would work everywhere. Then you just need a front end to read it… but then the cops could read it… oh public encryption makes no sense.

Secure Scuttlebutt is the way

Meh, Neovim has a fzf plugin. I use Logseq for linking. Linking is good because searching can fail to capture all the aliases for something, even if fuzzy

But I’m sure it’ll be useful for someone!

Why not just use text notes and fzf?

Exactly.

We will just put Trump porn on the whitehouse.gov site to show you how little control America has over its digital economy.

Damn I switched to proton last year and am NOT migrating again.

I thought it was based in the EU. Why does he care about the US at all?