Tue Jun 13, 2023 10:35 PM
Mon Jun 12, 2023 02:16 PM
This is what I’ve been saying for weeks. https://venturebeat.com/ai/the-ai-feedback-loop-researchers-warn-of-model-collapse-as-ai-trains-on-ai-generated-content/
As a generative AI training model is exposed to more AI-generated data, it performs worse, producing more errors, leading to model collapse.
Mon Jun 12, 2023 11:47 PM
Is Amazon getting a tax break (or a backroom promise about no new taxes) from the Seattle City Council for bringing workers back into the office for 3 days a week? (as part of its downtown revitalization efforts) #seattle #Amazon #seattlecity
Tue Jun 13, 2023 10:18 AM
It occurred to me out of the blue this morning that people get hung up over the theory or idea of communism that they can’t see what happened in practice. In the abstract, all communist countries settled on a one party system or group think. Think of it like a theocracy, or a large scale brutal tribe or clan.
Communists become paranoid of dissent and see it as a threat to their ideas and goals. They wipe out dissenters with mass atrocities and/or re-education camps. Their goal is to unify the country under their control because they believe their ideas and values are the best, and they are the only ones who can be trusted to govern the right way. They are very much like religious nationalists who have established a theocracy.
Years after they have established control and there is no one else to blame for their systemic failures, desperation makes them more open to reform. It also helps reform when the older generation of idealistic revolutionaries cede control to a newer generation of party loyalists. The party trusts the loyalists, even though they bring about reforms that are different from the original ideas. They trust them because they see these reformists as part of their group who have the best interests of the group in mind. They are not seen as dissenters to the ideas. The reforms are gradually presented to the party in order to assuage paranoia of an overhaul of the ideas that united the party in the beginning.
My point here is that communists should be seen in a more abstract view rather than their stated goals. They are anti-democratic, anti-pluralistic, controlling, share a group think, and want their own group cultural values to be the nation’s cultural values. They are not that different from theocratic-authoritarian regimes. They are also like clans that go to war with each other and wipe the others out. What defines that clans? Is it race, family, familial ties, cultural practices, religion, or language? It could be anything that they see important enough that unites them in the face of adversity and the “others”. If there is a large enough distrust and fear others so much, they’ll unite on anything that they see as a common shared identity.
I wrote this with the thought of Christian nationalists in the back of my mind. They aren’t that different from the communists that they use as insults.
#communism #communists #ChristianNationalism
Tue Jun 13, 2023 10:35 PM
Some people want fast cars, but not me.
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