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TotalCrackpot··on Why Hierarchy Is Fragile and Anarchy Is Antifragile
No it doesn't usually, usually they agree to do stuff and if they don't agree everyone goes their own way. Usually there is no command in the friend group.
TotalCrackpot··on Why Hierarchy Is Fragile and Anarchy Is Antifragile
You can watch this video to learn something today! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e27RVFxNOcc
TotalCrackpot··on What Happened to David Graeber?
They seem to actually be very efficient per capita, it's mostly that anarchism never really was more popular than other "radical" ideologies like Marxism-Leninism or fascism. It was almost always less popular than those even where it was popular.
TotalCrackpot··on What Happened to David Graeber?
The anarchist rebellion was the only anti-Franco side that managed to win some battles, it's demise happened because liberals and Stalinists preferred to betray anarchists and then get steamrolled by Franco.
TotalCrackpot··on What Happened to David Graeber?
Consider that Rojava is based on libertarian socialism, which is on many level quite similar to anarchism.
TotalCrackpot··on What Happened to David Graeber?
You have no idea what you are talking about, because you do indeed create anarchism through creation of mutual aid networks like for example Food Not Bombs.
TotalCrackpot··on What Happened to David Graeber?
Chomsky is advocating for libertarian socialism, so he is calling for revolution. You probably don't even understand that you don't create libertarian socialism revolution through a coup, even though that's elementary knowledge. You prefigure libertarian socialism, which means you create here and know a network of parallel horizontal institutions that work according to libertarian socialism ideas, and this network is supposed to put up a fight against a current system, the bigger it is the more intense is the fights. That means that the libsoc revolution is actually happening at this moment all over the world, because almost everywhere you can find some libertarian socialist counter-institutions.
TotalCrackpot··on What Happened to David Graeber?
Seems like you have higher tendency to rejecting an argument because you don't like it's conclusion, which obviously irrational.
TotalCrackpot··on What Happened to David Graeber?
It seem like you are writing bullshit because you have no idea what you are talking about. Read about projects like Revolutionary Catalonia or Free Territory of Ukraine to see how anarchists organized on a big scale - through some kind of federated horizontal structures.
TotalCrackpot··on What Happened to David Graeber?
Most anarchists were indeed social distancing, masking etc. so I have no idea what you are talking about. Maybe you are mistaking somehow anarcho-capitalism for anarchism, even though it's not anarchism?
TotalCrackpot··on What Happened to David Graeber?
Dunbar number is bullshit.
TotalCrackpot··on Becoming Ungovernable at Scale – Fabian Dablander [video]
In this video Fabian Dablander, an energy transition researcher at the University of Amsterdam, and a member of the activist group Scientist Rebellion talks about how to approach the fight for the better world given how bad is the current situation. He suggests that the civil disobedience is required and speaks about how is the problem created by the megamachine composed of the state and capitalism and how the media is unfortunately just bought by the status quo to justify it's rule and it's framework of extraction that is responsible for the current 6th mass extinction that we are in.
TotalCrackpot··on Anarcho-Transhumanism
The FAQ is interesting too: http://blueshifted.net/faq/
TotalCrackpot··on Igalia: Scaling a Worker Cooperative Beyond 100 Members [video]
https://www.igalia.com/
TotalCrackpot··on Small offline large language model – TinyChatEngine from MIT
Yeah I imagine sequential inference would be slower. How long do you have to wait to load these weights on a personal PC? I have not tried using those systems so far.
TotalCrackpot··on Small offline large language model – TinyChatEngine from MIT
Btw, shouldn't it in theory be possible to run the Mixtral MoE loading next submodel sequentially and store outputs and then do the rest of the algorithm to make it easier to run on machines that cannot fit whole model in the memory?
TotalCrackpot··on Recent data shows AI job losses rising, but the numbers don't tell full story
The ultimate goal of capitalism is to make worker obsolete. But how will then people get food and other things?
TotalCrackpot··on Plane got to top spot in project management on GitHub in less than a year
How does this compare to OpenProject? I'm using OpenProject for my game-dev worker cooperative and it is fairly fine.
TotalCrackpot··on If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing
Yeah, we need a good dictator (...) or we need to create federated horizontal power structures with consensus decision making as an alternative to current systems.
TotalCrackpot··on Workplace Democracy
I don't know if Mondragon is not like this a bit - they have elections to choose managers. But it's still much more flat that typical state structure.
TotalCrackpot··on Sam Altman exposes the charade of AI accountability
If you are actually interested in that you can promote voices like this (Why We Must Resist AI w/ Dan McQuillan): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38362498
TotalCrackpot··on We Must Resist AI with Dan McQuillan
I find this an interesting opinion given current gold rush concerning AI
TotalCrackpot··on Governments turn to Open Source for sovereignty
Anarcho-capitalism is not anarchy, so don't listen to yourself.
TotalCrackpot··on Governments turn to Open Source for sovereignty
There is no free market in capitalism, because it creates monopolies, and you easily could have some form of market socialism with workers cooperative based economy.
TotalCrackpot··on Judge pares down artists' AI copyright lawsuit against Midjourney, Stability AI
We can try some kind of libertarian socialism system, either with decentralized planing or with anti-capitalist markets to deal with it.

Consider existence of services like patreon where people support creators they respect before are able to get to know the work of the author - no intellectual property rights are needed here.

TotalCrackpot··on Judge pares down artists' AI copyright lawsuit against Midjourney, Stability AI
Do you suggest that you need intellectual property for new ideas to be created and propagated? THAT'S silly! For most of the history of this species there were no intellectual property rights and people still were sharing their thoughts and ideas for various reasons.
TotalCrackpot··on Judge pares down artists' AI copyright lawsuit against Midjourney, Stability AI
What is intellectual right? I respect authorship, with obvious consideration that no intellectual activity happens in a vacuum, as Isaac Newton said: "if I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.". I believe that I should never be able to get financially hurt or go to prison because I used other person's thoughts.
TotalCrackpot··on Judge pares down artists' AI copyright lawsuit against Midjourney, Stability AI
This is consistent with historically intellectual property being a construct that benefits owners of capital and not actual innovators. That's why I think it should be abolished, this is yet another mechanism to monopolize a space to profit through some kind of rent-seeking procedure.
TotalCrackpot··on 'Techno-Optimism' Is Not Something You Should Believe In
We had every equal societies in the world in a lot of places, they didn't have many hierarchies like a lot of tribes in America before they got slaughtered by white invaders. Ignoring a lot of anthropology with your ignorant comment.
TotalCrackpot··on 'Techno-Optimism' Is Not Something You Should Believe In
There are high delta societies where almost everyone is destitute too like Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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