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TERF anti-masker Gloria de la Cruz

First of all, I have no idea who Gloria de la Cruz is.

Secondly, I can say from my firsthand experience, neither Gloria la Riva nor Claudia de la Cruz are transphobic anti-maskers.

But you're clearly not engaging seriously or in good faith, so this is pretty unproductive.

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What do you think Socialist Reconstruction is about? Appealing to the bourgeois US government?

This is clearly rooted in an idealist lack of understanding of the actual present state of various national liberation struggles. As much as I wish it wasn't the case, no matter how low your opinion of the PSL is, at best those groups aren't any closer to achieving revolutionary change than the PSL are. That being said, the PSL explicitly aims to organize alongside, and often deferring to, those elements of national liberation struggles that aren't completely reactionary guided by the principle of the right of all nations to self determination.

Be specific, what "settler leadership" is saying that? Because that's news to me, and flies in the face of the actual direct experience I have with these people.

Is what you're saying that any party containing "settlers" is counter revolutionary? Who are settlers, by your definition? Is it just white people, or are you including anyone who is not indigenous? And in either case, are you saying that any "settler" has no place in revolutionary politics? Please, explain your vision for what a real revolutionary organization in the United States should be doing.

Idk much about FRSO, I've heard they're fine but I can't speak personally to it. It's definitely worth forming your own opinion on PSL, since this guy wages a personal crusade against them so you're not exactly getting an unbiased perspective. In my experience, I strongly disagree with his perspective on the class and national composition of the PSL, and he has yet to provide a more substantive critique. In my experience, PSL are a party that is genuinely composed of the multinational working class of the United States.

You're conflating a lot of things here, so be specific. Who is saying things like "Israeli and Palestinian working class unite"? Who isn't recognizing the unique character of the black working class compared with other nations and especially white Americans? Because you're saying CPUSA, PSL, and FRSO but I guarantee it doesn't apply to all of them.

I think RCP is the Avakian cult, isn't that just a US thing? But they're different from RCA.

Per RNN on Telegram, Hezbollah has claimed to have sent at least 2 drones towards the north of Tel Aviv, but have not yet announced the targets, or perhaps if they were successful. There will possibly be an announcement later today.

Well, yeah, but perhaps that implies they don't know who the actual communists are, so they will still target the "commie" demonrats

AI/ML research has long been notorious for choosing bullshit benchmarks that make your approach look good, and then nobody ever uses it because it's not actually that good in practice.

It's totally possible that there will be legitimate NLP use-cases where this approach makes sense, but that is almost entirely separate from the current LLM craze. Also, transformer-based LLMs pretty much entirely supplanted recurrent networks as early as like 2018 in basically every NLP task. So even if the semiconductor industry massively reoriented to producing chips that support "MatMul-free" models like this one to even get an energy reduction, that would still mean that the model outputs would be even more garbage than they already are.

I'm highly skeptical of this at first glance. Replacing self-attention with gated recurrent units seems like a decisive step back in natural language processing capabilities. The advancement that gave rise to LLMs in the first place was when people realized that building networks out of a bunch of self-attention blocks instead of recurrent units like GRU or LSTM was extremely effective.

In short, they are proposing an older type of model which are generally outclassed by attention-based transformers that power all the LLMs we see today. I doubt it will be able to achieve nearly as good results as existing LLMs. I foresee this type of research being used to silence criticisms of the ungodly amounts of energy used by LLMs to say "See, people are working on making them way more efficient! Any day now..." Meanwhile they will never come to fruition.