As an AI Luddite, I’m not sure how I feel about this.

  • Sims@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    Great finally having a counter weight to llm’s trained on the massive free market propaganda dataset. We just need to move past these archaic ‘*isms’ that are hardly scientific at all.

    • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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      3 days ago

      The 'isms are better thought as points of reference for your political views; for example someone saying “I’m an $personist” is basically saying “I agree with what $person said/did in most theoretical and practical matters”. They are useful, specially as they help you to understand what the other person defends, e.g.

      • a Maoist is likely to put heavy emphasis on rural workers
      • a Trotskyist is likely to believe the revolution should give no fucks about borders
      • a Dengist is likely to downplay the differences between market vs. state-planned economies, seeing them as just tools for an end
      • a Luxemburgist is likely to raise criticism against any “higher” role of a vanguard; etc.

      So they aren’t problematic on themselves. You need to watch out for dogmatism, though; just because you’re a $personist doesn’t mean you should automatically clap to every single thing $person did or said.