I was also defeated by this book lol.

I enjoyed listening to the summary by Champaign Anarchist on YouTube though. Not to say it’s going to be the same as the original text but it’s better than not reading it at all.

Too bad Bookchin was such a terrible writer. I think his ideas were an important contribution to leftist theory.

Sure why not?

There are certain types of problems they are better at solving. Basically if we already have all of the needed information, but you need to synthesize a huge amount of it into the final answer, they’ll be excellent at that kind of issue.

Maybe a bizarre suicide attempt by someone with some chemistry knowledge?

https://youtu.be/vvANy49Kqhw

Well your labels are inaccurate in that case. And those axes are not particularly independent from one another.

While I personally agree that the traditional political compass is a flawed and subjective view of the diversity of political views, it does a fairly good job of quantifying some differences that exist within the left and right that often confuse people otherwise. And it does seem to adequately categorize the vast majority of people in the west, even if imperfectly. So I don’t really get all the hate.

But you’ve got people who are normally in the auth-left quadrant in the lib-left one. This confuses me.

What happened to the other two quadrants?

The hierarchies present in the USSR didn’t take the form of income inequality. You’re taking a metric that is very useful for analyzing capitalist countries and using it in a context where it doesn’t make much sense.

Anyway, the comparison with the west isn’t really relevant to the comparison I would make in that case, which would be between the initial revolutionary movement and where it ended up.

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Maybe I didn’t explain it very well. I wasn’t saying progress was impossible. But the individual organizations, nations, leaders, etc. often end up getting caught up in this trajectory. Once this happens, there will usually be a new movement to try to fight against the new dominant hegemony. Sometimes the old power wins, sometimes the new one does, but inevitably, whoever wins will keep regressing. But there can still be a big change as the old guard is replaced (or sometimes bullied into submission).

So, it’s probably not universally true, but it’s a pattern that I’ve started noticing again and again as I study history.

It’s not just tankies. Almost the entirety of human history can be boiled town to various more or less effective movements for liberation getting co-opted by selfish assholes and becoming the thing they swore to destroy.

Yeah this is brainless pro-Soviet propaganda. All too common here, sadly.

It doesn’t say it’s voluntary, it says there were voluntary pilot programs within the larger initiative, which, as far as I can tell, is not voluntary.

Also, there can be harsh penalties including being put on blacklists that prevent you from traveling or your children from receiving education.

Capybara are dangerous?! Do they kill by biting or what?

I would assume insects would be evolutionarily similar to other types or prey.

Although I’m not sure most bats have forward facing eyes anyway.

But will what replaces it be any better?

Doubtful.

It’s pretty clear that deepseek is not open source, or at least shouldn’t be considered within the spirit of open source.

It seems like if we want to have truly open source llms, a new standard for transparency is needed.

Seems like something other states should get in on. Now that the program is established seems like it would not be as hard to pay into it and get a share of the product.