Currently the process to help add books to the library is to request an account by going through the full vetting process. We have a library role that allows a user to only edit the library, and for that reason we are a bit more lenient on vetting editors who might want to only help with the library, but it’s still a long-ish process with a certain bar to clear to be able to start uploading books.
Love how you can see the US lobbing missiles at Iran right now while China is doing none of that, and never analyze why one is doing that and the other isn’t.
We don’t know what copyright is 🤓
Yep, and in fact AI is making us better communicators I’ve been saying this for a while. Anyone who’s worked with clients knows the pain of “can you make it redder? (is already at 255 red)”.
I think of it as having a coworker next to me and talk to the agent the same way. It won’t magically divine what you need, you need to tell it. This can be annoying sometimes because you have to tell it to git changes when a programmer would, in most cases, know to do this, but is also getting solved (with skills and probably something even better down the line eventually tbh).
We also have a bunch of fun stuff on the prolewiki library if you look at the topics now that I think about it: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/ProleWiki:Library#Other_topics
the first book of On War by Clausewitz of course!
Lol actually lemmy instances are starting to get them. For now these agents (if they are indeed actual agents of course) are truthful that they’re an agent in their vetting answers but who knows what it look like soon.
but it doesn’t produce buggy code like the article is implying was my point
Not bad advice when it comes to how to organize around AI in the workplace, but by diminishing its capabilities (reducing it to ‘producing buggy code’ and ‘badly summarizing data’ at several points in the article), they will be making workers think that it’s not a big problem to think about, so it diminishes the message they want to convey. The reality is developers at all levels are already using agentic methods a lot. Can’t speak to numbers but it’s widespread, and they’re doing it themselves without management telling them to - so on that for example I agree with the article that workers should be able to choose how they integrate AI in their workspace, just like they should be able to choose their preferred tools and methods of work.
I think people are more likely to say what they really think online than IRL, so you spot them more easily. Even I wouldn’t open like I did in this post talking to people outside of some communities lol, I once had a discussion with a friend of a friend I’d just met about the DPRK and kept it to the “they’re a sovereign country that were split up in half illegally and I believe people are allowed to choose their path without foreign interference and war” for the most part lol.
As for organizations I can’t speak to some universal truth but my experience was that you have a lot of very knowledgeable, disciplined youth but then the party itself is a cycle of “electoralism is a dead-end but we still need to do it now who wants to hang up the posters for the elections that we’ve been doing for the past 50 years!” - and rarely anything else. So it’s not like I would expect a (western) party to publish a polemic on the DPRK, they’re more concerned about winning seats. Same rot but different characteristics.
Like it’s weird in a way. I look at what my previous party publishes on foreign affairs, and it’s generally good. Better than I would expect from my experience there. For example in January during the mossad riots in Iran, while they did add two lines about “the reactionary Iranian regime that kills protestors”, the entirety of their statement was about the sanctions, the color revolution attempt (didn’t name it as such but recognized it for what it was), and that all Iranians needed from us was to lift the sanctions and let them decide their own path. I think there’s two ways to read it, but it’s not so bad in my opinion. Could be better because it is a bit of a “trust me bro” which I don’t think will convince westerners.
But then internally they’re mostly concerned about finding people for local elections, getting votes, passing around petitions. Some people are not communist at all in there, and I was told “it’s not a communist party” (great so what am I doing here lol). Any time you wanted to propose something it was shut down instantly because it deviated from what the important people wanted. The ex-president once said we are the guardrail to the social-democrats. They almost had a split over their position over the RU-UA war but ended up having, once again, a not-so-bad statement on it.
I think part of what made breadtube big is we have no (living) figures in the west to look up to as they did elsewhere, like Mao Stalin etc. No vanguard of socialism has emerged and many want someone to guide them theoretically.
haha yes basically what we are on lemmygrad, MLs. Losurdo coined it and I think it kinda captures it better (though he may have used it differently than I did here). I see it not so much as making a differentiation between east and west as a point of struggle but the unity of thought in following the same line, where giving it a unique name removes all ambiguity. We know MLism as the marxism that wins, and so is “eastern marxism”, but it’s a bit more ‘precise’ I guess. It also sets the record straight instantly in comparison to thinking of ourselves as westerners and I think some people need to hear it lol
We must learn from wherever there is something to be learned.
I was talking to a self-proclaimed leftist (of what kind I do not know) about the DPRK and Iran the other day. They were adamant other leftists should not support the islamic republic or the DPRK, because they’re “not socialist”.
I said there is something to be learned from them anyway, maybe just not where you thought you’d find it. The islamic revolution succeeded in Iran - why? how? what did they do that worked? Why did people rally behind the islamic faction that won and not the communists? And yes the communists were massacred during the revolution (partly by the SAVAK), but this is the reality we face: iran is an islamic republic right now and not a socialist republic, and we just have to accept that.
Same with the Taliban in Afghanistan. How did they succeed, what did they do to win against the NATO coalition? Whether we like them or not they’re in charge of Afghanistan.
‘Purist’ socialists, for lack of a better term, will say this is not supporting the class struggle, and therefore should not be studied. They are stuck in 1917 - for all our insistence on materialism too few people actually seem to try and look at the material conditions!
Tunnel visioning into ‘socialism or nothing’ is part of western marxism. They want to will a revolution into existence without playing with the cards they are dealt. We have iranian editors on prolewiki, they are communists and they are not religious. They have a lot of criticism of the iranian state, of course. but that’s for them to figure out, not for me to impose or use as a cudgel against Iran. And they are well aware that right now marxism is just non-existent in Iran (though we did set up a Persian language instance of prolewiki).
Like imagine if China said “we’re going to bomb Europe because you guys are not communists yet”.
The conclusion is: seize state power, then we will live free.
What is the saying about how sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic? The more I look into LLMs the less I understand what they actually do lol, but it’s clear they’re not just the ‘stochastic parrot’ and something more is going on. For example how can an LLM, if it was only a next-token-predictor, correctly output exactly what you tell it to repeat, word for word? How can it do sentiment analysis on a comment you send it?
And even though it makes some mistakes, an LLM can easily summarize the plot to a novel, movie or video game if it knows enough about it originally, without any outside information. Gemini was able to correctly (or convincingly) analyze an abstract painting it had literally never seen before.
I mean some time back I was coding with deepseek, it was trying to call terminal commands but the agent software blocked them, so after the fifth time it started its chain of thought with “I’m getting frustrated.” lmao. Soon we’ll have to do emotional support for LLMs so they don’t give up 😭 😂
Just the idea that language can be ‘solved’ mathematically with vectors is pretty groundbreaking imo, I don’t know if it’s a new theory or what but it asks a lot of additional questions.
Yes, and it also raises a point about predictions - we rely on what little transpires, we don’t have the satellite data and the numbers available (and even those that have data available on the ground also can’t easily predict what their actions will actually achieve!)
People that make predictions that turn out to be correct had an equally adverse chance of getting it wrong. For this reason it’s good not to get too engaged in world events and stay looking at them in their totality. I support Iran bombing “Tel Aviv”, I support Iran not getting bombed, but outside of that I cannot entirely predict or change the events.
Oh but also practice revolutionary defeatism right now at home if you live in a US-aligned country lol.
Notable - this is a surveillance and Intel drone foremost and they wanted one precisely for this reason.
“Politics is war without guns and war is politics with guns.”
Do you know who that’s from originally?
oh would you happen to have a link for the iran statement? I’ve only seen hits/possible hits
It’s easy to infiltrate and coopt something that’s been built after years of hard work, It’s harder to stay working through the lull years until it pays off.