Yeah, this is a key point that a lot of Western libs completely miss because they’re so caught up in their own moral grandstanding. Before the whole war kicked off, Putin actually had to deal with real internal opposition. A significant number of people, especially in the bigger cities, genuinely wanted more integration with Europe and the West in general.

But then the war started, and the mask came off. The West’s response wasn’t just sanctions on oligarchs or the government. It immediately devolved into this insane, open season on anything and everything Russian. We’re talking about regular people getting banned from sports and arts, calls for collective punishment, and just a flood of the most vile, racist garbage directed at Russians as an ethnic group. It went from “we hate Putin’s regime” to “we hate you people” in about five seconds flat.

And that was a gift from heaven for the Kremlin. They’ve been saying for years that the West secretly despises all Russians and wants to see Russia broken up and erased as a culture. Suddenly, they could just point to the news and say see? we told you so.

This completely nuked the domestic pro Western opposition. What were they supposed to argue for? Hey, let’s be friends with these people who are calling for us to be shoved back into the stone age? Their entire platform was instantly irrelevant.

So instead of turning on Putin, a huge chunk of the population, including many who didn’t even like him, circled the wagons. When you’re being told by the entire “international community” that you’re subhuman orc because of your leader’s actions, you tend to rally around the flag as a form of self defense. The West’s blatant chauvinism and racism ended up solidifying Putin’s power in a way he could never have managed on his own.

Love how you refer to me stating basic facts as gaslighting. Take care.

Dude, mainstream western media openly admits that Putin has mass popular support in Russia, but you keep on doing your copes I guess. Nobody is talking about Putin being any sort of hero here. What’s being said is that there’s no evidence to suggest that elections in Russia need rigging. Meanwhile, the idea that Russia is trying to replace the US as the global hegemon is beyond laughable.

you should let CNN know

But Putin undoubtedly has reaped the rewards of a political landscape tilted dramatically in his favor. The Levada Center, a non-governmental polling organization, consistently reports Putin’s approval rating at over 80% – an eye-popping figure virtually unknown among Western politicians, and a substantial increase on the three-year period before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/14/europe/putin-russia-election-explainer-update-intl/index.html

Again, this is a very US centred perspective. I highly urge you to watch this interview with the Alibaba cloud founder on how this tech is being approached in China https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0PaVrpFD14

You’re such an angry little ignoramus. The GPT-NeoX repo on GitHub is the actual codebase they used to train these models. They also open-sourced the training data, checkpoints, and all the tools.

However, even if you were right that the weights were worthless, which they’re obviously not, and there were no open projects which there are, the solution would be to develop models from scratch in the open instead of screeching at people and pretending this tech is just going to go away because it offends you personally.

And nobody says LLMs are anything other than Markov chains at a fundamental level. However, just like Markov chains themselves, they have plenty of real world uses. Some very obvious ones include doing translations, generating subtitles, doing text to speech, and describing images for visually impaired. There are plenty of other uses for these tools.

I love how you presumed to know better than the entire world what technology to focus on. The megalomania is absolutely hilarious. Like all these researchers can’t understand that this tech is a dead end, it takes the brilliant mind of some lemmy troll to figure it out. I’m sure your mommy tells you you’re very special every day.

Will be interesting to see where they go. Science funding in Europe is a fraction of what it is in the US, so Europe wouldn’t be able to absorb large numbers of scientists leaving the US. China is probably the only other nation doing science investment on the scale of the US, I wonder how many might end up there.

You seem to have a very US centric perspective on this tech the situation in China looks to be quite different. Meanwhile, whether you personally think the benefits are outweighed by whatever dangers you envision, the reality is that you can’t put toothpaste back in the tube at this point. LLMs will continue to be developed. The only question is how that’s going to be done and who will control this tech. I’d much rather see it developed in the open.

For sure, these things always take on a life of their own and they’re impossible to control.

It might bring about the collapse of the empire which would be a good thing for the world.

I don’t think it’s just Ukraine actually. Here’s my take on the whole thing https://dialecticaldispatches.substack.com/p/the-us-pivot-to-asia-and-europes

There is a lot of hype around LLMs, and other forms of AI certainly should be getting more attention, but arguing that this tech no value is simply disingenuous. People really need to stop perseverating over the fact that this tech exists because it’s not going anywhere.

Given that the US put tariffs on Chinese panels and nobody else makes them in any serious volumes, what the public wants doesn’t really matter.

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Again, there is zero chance of Russia attacking US carriers in the ocean. Also, from Russian perspective it would be far preferable for the US to get embroiled in their own version of SMO in Latin America for years to come.

I expect there’s going to be a severe backlash against the west in Ukraine when the war is over and they realize they’ve just been cynically used as cannon fodder to right Russia.

I still have no idea what this dependence on Russia you keep talking about would be. Russia isn’t trying to turn Venezuela into what US did to Ukraine. Meanwhile, Russia is already ending the illusions of the US power projection by defeating NATO in Ukraine.

Finally, the US doesn’t need reasons to start wars. The war in Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan, were all unprovoked. That’s just to name a few. The attacks the US is doing on Venezuela as we speak are unprovoked. There was no reason to start a proxy war with Russia in Ukraine either. Yet here we are.

A nuclear powered torpedo having effectively an unlimited range could just get there by ocean without needing to be ferried by plane. I’m also not sure how Venezuela defeating the Burger Reich would create dependence on Russia either. Seems to me that if Russia sank a US carrier group that would be the start of WW3, so it’s obvious that Russia wouldn’t do something that overt.

Right, Russia ferried their nuclear powered torpedo to Venezuela by plane. That totally makes sense. A far more likely scenario is that Russia will provide Venezuela with AD that can shoot down F35s which would utterly humiliate the US.

CNN sounds a bit salty that DPRK doesn’t give a fuck about the Burger Reich 😆