RedClouds

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[–] RedClouds@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

Didn't I put this in freechat? It was a rant. You can stop gatekeeping now.

 

Communists don't just have the burden of being right too early, they also have the burden of never getting recognition once they've been proven to be right.

A friend is now getting really pissed off about the annexation of Gaza. And I'm like, yep, I've been mad about this for a year. And he responds with something along the lines of

"Oh yeah, the Biden administration wasn't doing great, but it was only the public facing stuff. He was doing all of his negotiation behind doors. It may not have been good, but at least I understood why he was trying to do things quietly. It might have been ineffective, but he was trying".

Sure, right, Cool cool cool, won't even admit that this is what we've been fighting the dems about... ugh.

And follows it up with

"There's not much we can do to affect foreign policy because of how we're set up"

Like.. What? Hey thanks for finally getting on board about Gaza. Please stop making excuses for Biden. And finally, WHAT THE FUCK? Nothing we can do? So I guess what Trump is saying is all bullshit then, right? Because, you know, "There's not much we can do to affect foreign policy" right???

I think I'm giving up. I can't help these people anymore. I just need to avoid politics with anyone. Their brain worms are too deep and I'm not good at propaganda AGHHH.

[–] RedClouds@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

For the military, I'm sure this is a cost-cutting measure. I'm guessing they get to fire some people And make the rest of them work double time, but with AI assisting them.

For the working people, it's another argument that you can point to to get people radicalized :D

[–] RedClouds@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah they all do that to each other. Pretty standard practice actually.

The big deal is the low cost, and using weak GPUs, to train a comparable AI.

Trumps gonna be Trump though. Embarassing to live here.

[–] RedClouds@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah, unfortunately we've known that for a while.

There were actually some Google employees that protested this, and they've all been fired, of course.

[–] RedClouds@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 month ago

Exactly. The people who spout "apolitical" all the time are just a part of the global elite.

It's the rich that will tell the poor to stop being political and go find a job.

It's the white people who will tell the black people to just stop doing crime instead of getting political.

It's always your boss that says to keep politics out of the office, just show up on time and do your job.

The oppressor always tell the oppressed to stop getting political. Because getting "political" is the only way that you could potentially stop the oppression.

[–] RedClouds@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 month ago

Bro, just one more compromise with the fascists, bro. Bro, if we just compromise one more time, everything will be fine!

[–] RedClouds@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A note about those queues.

I've been thinking a lot recently about the difference between policy and material conditions. The USSR wouldn't have had queues (or very long queues) if they were a rich country like the United States. Any socialist country that is rich would have plenty of materials that nobody would ever have to wait in line (at least not a long line, no longer than in current day USA)

Of course, under socialism, certain excesses would be limited, but at the same time, if your country literally already had what it needed because of the overcapacity built by capitalism, then under socialism, basically all needs would be met very easily.

I need to do some more reading by other people on this topic because I'm no expert, but it makes sense to me.

[–] RedClouds@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Libs are worried about it, reference: https://analyticsindiamag.com/ai-news-updates/deepseek-crushes-openai-o1-with-an-mit-licensed-model-developers-are-losing-it/

So my experience right now with using & reading about AI and the opinions and feelings from people about the AI is that China is still a little bit behind, but catching up so insanely fast that everybody should just agree that they're already ahead of the United States and that the race is on. (Oh and they're running on last year's hardware because they're banned from getting the latest Nvidia chips, so they're actually training better AI, with weaker processors, and less data. Though they are probably leveraging ChatGPT for some data generation, which is what most people who build open models do anyway.)

Eric Schmidt was a previous CEO of Google, and still a board member. 9 Months ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1cnce06/eric_schmidt_says_the_us_is_23_years_ahead_of/ Last month: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5042031-artificial-intelligence-danger-eric-schmidt/

Eric is about as libed up as you can get (Co-wrote a book with Henry Kissinger...) So if he admits that China has caught up and will surpass us, it's because the evidence is OVERWHELMING. This would be the equivalent of orthodox Jews admitting that Israel is committing a genocide. If THEY are saying it, it's been true for a LOOONG time and is undeniable.

Also, they are open sourcing their models, which is freaking awesome. Anyone can use the absolute massive beast of R1 and compete with o1 directly, without even training their own models.

Also Colloquially, AI's trained in China absolute dominate the open source rankings. Qwen2.5, DeepSeek 3, DeepSeek R1, QwQ (Qwens equivalent to R1) and derivatives from these lead almost every category. LLama (Facebook) is right behind though. For small models, Phi (Microsoft) is up there (Good for running on your phone or laptop, but not the smartest).

AI moves so fast that by the time you're done reading this something will be out of date 🙃

[–] RedClouds@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 month ago

What I'm curious about, and have not yet asked on 小红书, is whether there is an online space that kids aren't allowed in so that people can talk about things that they don't want kids to be exposed to, but isn't illegal.

LGBTQ topics come up first. Their excuse is, hey, we don't want kids seeing that, but it's totally fine if you are and it's not illegal. So I wonder if there's a place that you can talk about that stuff that is age restricted.

On a separate note, to keep everything in one comment, I do think that America brains have some issues with censorship that they don't understand. Sure, the government doesn't have that many rules around censorship, but every single platform does, and you're gonna get kicked off or banned from one platform or another for saying certain things. It's just that in America, those things are inconsistent, and you can get banned for whatever reason the CEO wants you to be. This just fractures our online environments and creates tribalism, which leads to more infighting, not less.

[–] RedClouds@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Don't feel bad about feeling like you're going down a conspiracy theory rabbit hole. Obviously be conscious of that and be careful, but the fact of the matter is that a lot of anti-China sentiment is a conspiracy theory in the first place.

I am a white guy, not an Asian American, but I'm glad that Asian Americans like you have class consciousness and understand what this country is truly about with regards to its propaganda. Obviously, most people who have immigrated here from communist countries have done so because they are capitalist friendly. I tried explaining this to a friend of mine when we were talking about the USSR. He said, oh, all the people here say how bad the USSR is. And I said, of course they do. They fled the USSR. They obviously don't agree with its practices. The vast majority of people that stayed behind actually have positive feelings about the USSR In retrospect.

To be fair, I probably pushed him a little hard when I said that a lot of people that fled were the slave owners and horrible people, and he felt that I was implying that the descendants of those people are all horrible people too, which I didn't mean to say. But that's another off-topic rant.

One of the reasons that I fell in a commie-rapid hole is because I started actually looking at the evidence, supposed evidence rather, that Americans and NGOs and think tanks were pushing about their anti-China agenda. As someone who prides myself on being science-based and evidence-based, and when I was a liberal, someone who cared a lot about being correct in terms of scientific thinking, I found these "studies" terrible. Often refuting the claims that are in the title of the study itself or even if the title didn't make that claim it was the news agency that did. Basically everything that these liberals are saying that the alt-right do to push their lies is exactly what the liberals do and they just eat it the fuck up because CNN/BBC said it instead of Fox News.

Very frustrating indeed.

[–] RedClouds@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As I mentioned in my other reply, that was actually what signaled me to come here and make this post because it was such a darn good video! And then they had to just go and ruin it by being like "nope sometimes we put our heads in the ground too", and like... Ugh... damn it this is why I'm not a liberal anymore.

[–] RedClouds@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago

That's actually literally what reminded me of it. And then my head went down this entire spiraling track and I was like, I gotta write this down.

 

This could obviously be seen as a circle jerk post, but I'm just ranting a bit, need to get this annoyance off my chest after watching a crap video (The latest innuendo studios video, if you are curious, but that video isn't important specifically here).

Liberals (The American Democrat kind) spend a lot of time talking about how the alt-right will throw a piece of junk science in your face in order to support their racist conclusions or false medical conspiracy theories. This is all fine and dandy because the alt-right are looking for anything that back a racist or sexist or anti-trans conclusion, even when the studies conclusion doesn't really support that. I usually agree with the "American democratic liberals" in these cases.

But most social/political "studies" are pretty much junk, "we surveyed 100 young people in one city and now we think we know what the whole of American youth think"... Right.. sure you do.

Plus history is one of the most contentious topics in all of... Well history ironically. You can't just point to the winners and say "See, we won the war, so we're definitely right about the history of the country we destroyed"... Buuuut..

Then they turn around and throw a junk survey or a junk "study" that has some anti-communist rhetoric, and you explain why it is junk and how it's factually incorrect, they double down... Just like the alt-right does... Because they will believe anything that supports their anti-communist conclusions... Why does that sound familiar?

I've run through this so many times before, between anti-China "studies" and anti-Soviet rhetoric. They're so willing to just blindly accept anything that the USA says, even stuff said during the Red Scare, for which even most of them will even admit was a time of deep propaganda. Exposing CIA declassified documents sometimes works, but often doesn't anyway. How many times I've heard about "holodomor" or "Stalin killed more people than Hitler". It's just so aggravating.

End rant; have a good day

By the way, if you made it this far, I really appreciate this community because on the whole, people are willing to listen and talk to people so long as we are approached in good faith. We tend not to just spit on someone for asking an honest question (But it is totally funny to spit on someone who is clearly just an anti-commie fascist or something).

 

So without giving away any personal information, I am a software developer in the United States, and as part of my job, I am working on some AI stuff.

I preliminarily apologize for boiling the oceans and such, I don't actually train or host AI, but still, being a part of the system is being a part of the system.

Anywhoo.

I was doing some research on abliteration, where the safety wheels are taken off of a LLM so that it will talk about things it normally shouldn't (Has some legit uses, some not so much...), and bumped into this interesting github project. It's an AI training dataset for ensuring AI doesn't talk about bad things. It has categories for "illegal" and "harmful" things, etc, and oh, what do we have here, a category for "missinformation_dissinformation"... aaaaaand

Shocker There's a bunch of anti-commie bullshit in there (It's not all bad, it does ensure LLMs don't take a favorable look at Nazis... kinda, I don't know much about Andriy Parubiy, but that sounds sus to me, I'll let you ctrl+f on that page for yourself).

Oh man. It's just so explicit. If anyone claims that they know communists are evil because an "objective AI came to that conclusion itself" you can bring up this bullshit. We're training AI's to specifically be anti-commie. Actually, I always assumed this, but I just found the evidence. So there's that.

 

God damn it, this is how fascism really takes hold, when the fake communist start winning seats. They build up a bunch of momentum and then they suddenly "flip" (To their true form) at the last second and start killing people.

Am I crazy about this? Is something like this worse than a public nazi being in an office seat?

Unsure about how "important" this seat is. I'm more worried about the trend. If the only "commies" getting seats are ACP reactionaries, when real communists won't be able to distinguish themselves from them in the public eye.

Also, how the fuck are they so effective? It seemed like mere months ago ACP began. How the fuck are they able to get any seat with the term "communist" in their party name? Regardless of their reactionary status, to normal people, the big C word is a no-no.

Final free thought: I know commies aren't gunning for office most of the time, and that is fine. Building community, unions, and being in the streets, is more effective. But having some office seats could lead to small-but-useful changes, especially since this is a legal-adjacent seat.

 

I ain't young, but this is my first election where I am a real lefty, and... Has it always been this bad?

The liberal seething is just disgusting right now. You can't be on any place of the internet that has any discussion about politics whatsoever.

If you suggest that the Democrats should be better, then you get called out for trying to make Trump president

If you respond that now is the time to actually put pressure on candidates because they're running for office and in any fucking reasonable place, this is where they would make campaign promises and you can demand stuff out of them, then they say that you're being a fascist.

The liberal propaganda is just mind numbing.

Even the traditionally leftist places on Reddit (a place I visit very infrequently, so small changes add up over time when I visit and see the crazies have come out of the woodworks) are getting inundated with a bunch of "but the GOP is worse", and "we have to compromise" and blah blah blah. Even in some commie spaces.

Like I understand not being a doomer, and trying to actually make things better in the meantime while we build forces for the revolution, but holy shit, it's like Anyone to the right of Marxist Leninists have immediately caved to pressure.

 

Apparently, he didn't get that close before he was caught in the bushes at Trump's Mar-a-Lago golf course. Shots were fired, but it might have just been shots between Secret Service and him. The shooter was caught after a camera picked up his license plate after somebody took a picture of his car as he was fleeing.

 

Article title: Ex-Google CEO says successful AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers to ‘clean up the mess’

Okay, I editorialized the title a bit. Basically, Eric Schmidt said that if you were to build a competitor to TikTok after it gets banned using AI, then you could just steal all of the IP, and if your company was not successful, then nobody really cares. But if your company was successful, then you would have the money to pay off the lawyers to get you out of a jam.

It is a rather obvious acknowledgment that money and success tend to generate more money and success. One can engage in dishonest acts, cheating, stealing IP, etc. as long as they possess the money to hire lawyers to get themselves out of the situation.

They even took down the talk from YouTube because of how bad it looked.

And I thought Musk and Trump were the only one stupid enough to admit the obviously evil shit.

 

Just heard about this organization called Operation Olive Branch. They claim they are:

Grassroots movement to support & amplify aid requests of Palestinian families.

Since I know a lot of organizations like this can be fishy, and/or outright scams, so I'm wondering if people have experience with, them or have any reason not to trust them.

Thanks all.

 

A cybersecurity company started by 4 Israeli military officials is going to be potentially acquired by Google for $23 billion.

Anyone that tells you that Israel and America don't collude is either bullshitting you, or incredibly uninformed.

America keeps Israel going, without the USA it would fall instantly due too it's apartheid. Their genocidal military sets them up to be capitalist billionaires.

Remember kids, they don't fight fair. You don't have too either.

 

It's a personal story and he goes through a bit slow but he does get to the point. Basically capitalism has ruined medicine and the actual ways to solve most medical issues cannot be recommended because they don't make a lot of money.

 

Obvious bullshit is obvious, but i don't have time to track down the source of this. They say every conspiracy theory starts with a grain of truth, but of course it doesn't have too!

Anyone know what three libs are talking about here? A misunderstanding or just a lie?

 

Hey all, if there is a better place to put this, please let me know.

jewish community foundation of los angeles

Does anyone have any knowledge about the donors or donor history from this group? Looks like they are very tight lipped about who donates to them, though it appears to be over a thousand sources and millions of dollars. Helping out a friend look into some background information.

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