Technology such as LLMs is just automation and that’s what the base is, how it is applied within a society is what’s dictated by the uperstructure. Open source LLMs such as DeepSeek are a productive force, and a rare instance where a advanced means of production is directly accessible for proletarian appropriation. It’s a classic base level conflict over the relations of production.

Oh I’ve seen the interview with Postol, that was pretty good.

Nah, I don’t think I’m going to take as gospel what a CIA asset say.

Instead, go read Marx to understand the relationship between the technology and the social relations that dictate its use within a society.

stay mad

Elections are just the surface of the problem. The real issue is who owns the factories and funds the research. In the West that’s largely done by private capital, putting it entirely outside the sphere of public debate. Even universities are heavily reliant on funding from companies now, which obviously influences what their programs focus on.

not that I know, but would be neat to see that

that’s true yeah

or maybe it’s the capitalist relations and not the technology that’s the actual problem here

behold the least brainwashed wasp everybody

this evidence ignoramus

90% of families in the country own their home giving China one of the highest home ownership rates in the world. What’s more is that 80% of these homes are owned outright, without mortgages or any other leans. https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2016/03/30/how-people-in-china-afford-their-outrageously-expensive-homes

Chinese household savings hit another record high in 2024 https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-jones-bank-earnings-01-12-2024/card/chinese-household-savings-hit-another-record-high-xqyky00IsIe357rtJb4j

Social mobility in China being far better than in the US https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/18/world/asia/china-social-mobility.html

The typical Chinese adult is now richer than the typical European adult https://www.businessinsider.com/typical-chinese-adult-now-richer-than-europeans-wealth-report-finds-2022-9

The real (inflation-adjusted) incomes of the poorest half of the Chinese population increased by more than four hundred percent from 1978 to 2015, while real incomes of the poorest half of the US population actually declined during the same time period. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w23119/w23119.pdf

From 2010 to 2019 (the most recent period for which uninterrupted data is available), the income of the poorest 20% in China increased even as a share of total income. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.DST.FRST.20?end=2019&amp%3Blocations=CN&amp%3Bstart=2008

Real wage (i.e. the wage adjusted for the prices you pay) has gone up 4x in the past 25 years, more than any other country. This is staggering considering it’s the most populous country on the planet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw8SvK0E5dI

Meanwhile, billionaires are fleeing China https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/china-billionaires-declining-rich-list-13830670.html

oh no the lib bible disagrees in face of all evidence, must be true 🤣

O7

just another way to make the experiment

Russia is definitely sending a message here, I thought it was interesting that abc doesn’t mention it by name though.

same, it’s pretty obvious they’ve been cooking numbers even during Biden time, and it’s only got worse since

And to the Europeans as well, as any war with Europe will immediately result in Europe going dark.

The problem isn’t with education, it’s with the conflation of identifying problems and fashioning solutions. You don’t need education to understand the problems you personally experience, you need it to actually come up with workable solutions. Not only that, but nobody can possibly be an expert in every field. You need experts in each particular domain to come up with viable ways to address the problems, and political commitment to actually seeing them through to the end.

The whole discussion of democracy is meaningless when the means of production are privately owned, because this arrangement takes away from public debate the key question of who governs our common economic life and to what ends?

Genuine democracy must include the power to shape the material conditions of our existence. The nature of labour, the distribution of its fruits, and the purpose for which we can produce are fundamental decisions we make as a society. When these are decided by a capitalist class alone with the absolute authority of private property, then political democracy becomes merely an ornamental competition on secondary issues. Citizens vote to choose politicians, but not regarding the structure of industry or finance, or the necessity for maximum profit which places all social and ecological considerations in a subordinate position. This creates an inherent contradiction where citizens are called equals politically, yet remain subordinates economically.

Any system where there is a private dictatorship over industry is not democracy but a carefully staged charade which legitimises the rule of money through the hollow ritual of elections.

this one’s pretty short at least :)

Oh no, the state in China prevents rich assholes from buying up and hoarding property, how terrible!