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TotalCrackpot··on I live in my car: Parking lots open for those who can afford a car but not rent
We have to eliminate economic rent from society.
TotalCrackpot··on Anna's Archive – LLM Training Data from Shadow Libraries
I posted this earlier! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37928320
TotalCrackpot··on Ketamine's effect on depression may hinge on hope
Maybe you don't really have to "fix" depression, I am very nihilistic and I do just fine - I don't kill myself because I don't give a fuck enough to do that. Looks easy to me. We are just on a flying stone in the cosmos, we shouldn't really except anything out of this.
TotalCrackpot··on Why decline in generalists leads to disjointed games and harms tool quality
Should you put an ad somewhere, go to meetups or conferences and say you are open for contracts? Leave CV somewhere?
TotalCrackpot··on Why decline in generalists leads to disjointed games and harms tool quality
Look into fields like cognitive science or places like MIT Media Lab - interdisciplinary research is the answer!
TotalCrackpot··on Why decline in generalists leads to disjointed games and harms tool quality
Do you have any tips or resources on how to find individual consumers?
TotalCrackpot··on Why decline in generalists leads to disjointed games and harms tool quality
Maybe try creating or working for worker cooperatives? Given that they are fully worker managed they should be a better place for generalists.
TotalCrackpot··on Ask HN: How did you escape homelessness?
Maybe check living in a car like station vagon, suv or a van. There is a community around that lifestyle, they make money through food delivery in the car. There are subreddits on reddit on this lifestyle, maybe it can help you survive and find other options with time. Maybe you can check out anarchist squats, maybe they are where you are, maybe they can give you a place to sleep.
TotalCrackpot··on OpenAI is too cheap to beat
Just like the pirate Bay online cinema is better than every streaming service there could be pirate LLM that uses all the data, maybe it could be even trained by internet users sharing a bit of compute with some program?
TotalCrackpot··on The rent is too damn algorithmic
In USSR and other Marxist-Leninist experiments arguably both the state and capitalism prevailed. The relation of workers to their workplaces didn't actually change - still taking orders, this time not from the owner of the workplace but from the state beaurocrat. So workers actually didn't have control over means of production, just this time the political class and the owner class got combined into one class - the class of state beaurocracy.
TotalCrackpot··on The rent is too damn algorithmic
Which alternative do you mean? Communism? Anarchism? Socialism? They all want to abolish rent-seeking and not only, but through very different strategies.
TotalCrackpot··on Rethinking the Luddites
Unions like IWW fight for all workers, cause they want to end whole wage work.
TotalCrackpot··on Rethinking the Luddites
Ok, so do you endorse slavery cause its human nature? What is your point? 50 million out of over 8 billion is much better ratio than what was in some societies based on slavery.
TotalCrackpot··on Rethinking the Luddites
I propose libertarian socialism or Anarchism, either the left-wing market variant or the communist variant.
TotalCrackpot··on Rethinking the Luddites
Do you know that slavery too was justified to be just human nature and now it's fairly niche in richer parts of the world? Your argument is essentialist, so I find it weak. And both Russia and China are capitalist countries actually.
TotalCrackpot··on The elderly are becoming homeless at a rate not seen since the Great Depression
Welcome to late stage capitalism.
TotalCrackpot··on DeepMind cofounder: Generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI
Work concerning sewage, construction (a lot of the time safety requirements are not met cause employees wants to save money and persons hurt themself in accidents because of that), even being an Amazon warehouse worker without an option to go to the bathroom, etc.
TotalCrackpot··on DeepMind cofounder: Generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI
Oppression is inherent to capitalism, it requires to create and exploit a bunch of suffering persons without any good option to keep efficiency and to do the most undesirable work for very bad salary, even though it should be worth more given its undesirable.
TotalCrackpot··on California moves to decriminalize use of magic mushrooms, other psychedelics
You should always read about things you put into your body I wanted to write. It's called harm reduction.
TotalCrackpot··on California moves to decriminalize use of magic mushrooms, other psychedelics
It's legal to drink bleach. Does that make it not harmful?
TotalCrackpot··on California moves to decriminalize use of magic mushrooms, other psychedelics
Maybe you have some neurodegenerative disease that you think is mushrooms?
TotalCrackpot··on Disco Elysium and the need for collective action
Yeah, for example: https://www.iclcit.org/introduction-of-the-international-con.... Consider that these are revolutionary unions with aim of overthrowing capitalism, but in theory one could get inspired by their structure to create a reformist union based on horizontality.
TotalCrackpot··on Disco Elysium and the need for collective action
So the issue is hierarchical structure - solution to that is to have horizontal decision making with delegates (not representatives) and no salary for any union member for the work for the union. Anarchists trade unions usually operate like that.
TotalCrackpot··on Why Socialism? (1949)
Zapatistas have around 30 years and they seem to be very close to Anarchism, Rojava has 10 years of democratic confederalism which is Libertarian socialism and let's say fairly close to Anarchism.
TotalCrackpot··on Why Socialism? (1949)
Consider that Marx wasn't Marxist-Leninist although I think he was pro state. Anti-statist socialists like Kropotkin thought about some kind of decentralised planning. You could even have market as a distribution mechanism, but without capitalism through some variant of market socialism or market Anarchism.
TotalCrackpot··on Disco Elysium and the need for collective action
You can create horizontal union without salaries. This should solve the problem you are talking about.
TotalCrackpot··on Disco Elysium and the need for collective action
Why are you anti-union if I can ask?
TotalCrackpot··on The unpublished preface to Orwell’s Animal Farm
They seem to have closed borders which is not typically considered anarchists indeed. About assemblies - that's fine, anarchists postulate freedom of association so you don't have to let random people from outside inside your structures, still they seem to be some inspiration to the rest of residents of Chiapas and in practice there is nothing that could stop them from fighting for their self-determination too.
TotalCrackpot··on The unpublished preface to Orwell’s Animal Farm
It tries to destroy incentives for these behaviors before they happen. You have to address that on case-by-case basis. A lot of acts we consider harmful stem from bad material situation, which is an inherent part of this system. System needs people in very bad situation to be willing to do the worst jobs. And anarchists overall think that you should put more action towards HELPING a person that got harmed than only punishing a persecutor of harmful act.
TotalCrackpot··on The unpublished preface to Orwell’s Animal Farm
Ok. I'm current society you call police, in next 10 minutes you get to murdered. In an hour or 2 police comes and of your murderers were bad then they left evidence that makes them go to prison financed from other people taxes. You are dead.
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