Post B6PtvALhbEB2EuNDma by jonny@neuromatch.social
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 (DIR) Post #B6PtvALhbEB2EuNDma by jonny@neuromatch.social
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       I regret to give anyone this information that didn't already have it, but "the left for AI" as a cluster of ideas both a) exists and b) is infopoison of the highest order
       
 (DIR) Post #B6PtvAjSAvAxQZUBns by jonny@neuromatch.social
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       There is this hilarious word salad ive seen spun a few times that goes something something labor theory of value something something intelligence displaces money etc and so on therefore the left must harness the labor power of AI
       
 (DIR) Post #B6PtvAtNa17DvM87H6 by jonny@neuromatch.social
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       It has gone far enough to suggest that maybe opposition to AI is in fact a conspiracy propagated by the AI companies to keep people from realizing the um capacity for AI-assisted organizing (?!?) and apparently this is an increasingly common strain in some tankie circles who believe that the international vanguard of communism failed because of not enough computers. That the left is being left behind while the corporate execs and fascists marinate in the utopia of AI.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6PtvB8Ggf1cfX60Tw by jonny@neuromatch.social
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       I don't even have enough strength of will to explain how bad of an idea this is and how it makes no sense and has nothing resembling a concordance with this reality except to point at all the billions of dollars spent creating and pushing this technology on every front and say "surely the whole of global capital spending entire civilizations worth of riches to get us to use this technology might suggest they think they have something to gain by people becoming reliant on it"
       
 (DIR) Post #B6PtvBJc0U6DEiP4AC by jonny@neuromatch.social
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       I instead view the situation as one that has eminent empirical validation where the largest companies in the world are trying to get us dependent on a technology that yields full control of what is possible to know, what happened, and what can be done as a subscription product with inelastic demand once saturated.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6PtvCHAR3joDQGczY by jonny@neuromatch.social
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       The reason the right and corporate center are experiencing great gains with AI are that they are floating on massive piles of exploitation that cushion losses, that the things they need are probabilistic managerialism where imprecision is a benefit as it can be constructed to always err in the managers favor, and the winning end state for them is total surveillance with carefully controlled access to information. None of these things can be "adopted by the left"
       
 (DIR) Post #B6PtvDL6TuTrVv7HlY by jonny@neuromatch.social
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       No you cannot use LLMs to optimize your meetings without alienating the people actually doing work in your group. No you cannot use LLMs to guide your vanguardist international strategy. No you cannot use LLMs for keeping abreast of what your local fascist paramilitary is up to. No you cannot use LLMs to unionize your colleagues. No you cannot use an LLM to promote or coordinate a general strike. No you cannot use LLMs to generate a vague kind of labor currency. Yes using LLMs isolates you from people around you, yes LLMs are antithetical to solidarity with people around you, yes using LLMs corrodes the basis of social cohesion needed for local organizing, etc.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6PtvENcc25ak1IoKW by jonny@neuromatch.social
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       The technology the left needs, apparently, is more like "a reasonable and secure chat app with channels and reputational vouching" than AI. If signal were to fall then all the affinity groups would get smoked, but in the meantime their capacity is hampered in no small part from signal exhaustion lmao.