But over time I started recognizing a lot of the same usernames, and it really just hit me that you guys are some of the most empathetic and loving people I’ve come across on the internet […]

Totally agree. I’ve been on Lemmygrad since before GenZedong was quarantined on Reddit. There were only a few of us, but I could immediately recognize a few other users when I made posts. Almost every conversation has been great here. It’s something I didn’t notice on any other centralized social network. And the fact that this community feels like an authentic community is also incredible.

This might be a super sappy post, but you know what, I don’t care. Making the switch from Reddit to lemmygrad was the best social media decision I ever made […]

While this may be a “sappy” post, I think these posts are necessary for people who use Lemmygrad to understand that it has an impact on the lives of other comrades. Many people come to this community for advice or just to vent. It’s something that would be impossible on Reddit because of the toxic nature and dark patterns that hide all the most successful social networks to succeed.

Here (unfortunately)

GNOME FTW 😎 enjoy your new hardware!!

Looks like a GNOME-based DE, yeah.

I liked it even more when I saw a 2h video analysis (yes, 2 hours) in Spanish by a content creator I follow.

I leave it here in case anyone is interested in seeing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp036qa-rI8

Se me nota muchísimo cuando escribo a otros camaradas en inglés jajajaja

Por cierto, feliz navidad! :)

In this case, perhaps using AdNauseam could be useful for you.

Fair enough 😅 I know the participants are cringe, but I have shared it because I would like to hear your opinion from a Marxist perspective. GeoHot is an accelerationist and Connor I think tries to be “apolitical”, you know… lol

Anyway, I’ve put in the description of the post a summary of the transcript in case someone wants to know what they say without having to watch the video.

What’s more, any countries that try to put brakes on AI development will quickly find themselves at a disadvantage from countries that don’t. For this reason alone, AI will be seen as a national security concern by all major nations

In fact, we have seen that Americans are becoming increasingly fearful of AIs, in contrast to the Chinese, who generally trust AIs. This could be due to who has control over AIs. In the US, citizens are thinking about the most dystopian version of a large-scale implementation of these intelligence models because they know that the government will use it to further repress the working class. In China, government regulation of AIs generates trust because they trust the government. But as I mentioned in another comment, an open source AI for the whole population would be useless if such code is governed by a libertarian license like MIT/Apache 2.0, because of how easy it would be for the ruling class to appropriate this work to privatize and improve it to such an extent that the original code could not be measured against it.

This would allow for unprecedented level of economic planning efficiency.

Yes, in fact, isn’t that what the Chileans had in mind when they came up with Cybersyn? With the technological advances of our era, especially in the field of AI and so on, it would make sense to go back to this idea. China has the potential to implement it on a large scale in my opinion.

Then the model is trained to interact with the physical world through reinforcement and this leads it to to create an internal representation of the world that’s similar to our own. This gives us a shared context that we can use to communicate with the model trained in this fashion. Such a model would have actual understanding of the physical world that’s similar to our own, and then we could teach it language based on this shared understanding.

Regarding what you mention, I have a question (maybe it sounds stupid), but assuming that these AI learn and develop in a particular environment and become familiar with it in a similar way to humans, what would happen if these AI interact with something or someone outside that environment? That is, for example, if an AI develops in an English-speaking country (environment) and for some reason interacts with a Spanish-speaking person, the cultural peculiarities that the AI has learned in that environment are not applicable to this subject. Do you think it could give a false sense of closeness or technical limitation? idk if I’m making myself clear or if this is an absurd question 😅

I fully agree. And not only that, I’m also intrigued to know what licence GeoHot would choose to launch such an open source AI. If he chose the more libertarian option, he would probably use the MIT license. If so, any powerful entity could take that AI as a base, lock down the code and build a malicious AI based on the open source AI. In the end, all efforts to “democratise” open source AI would be in vain.

Good bot :)

Catalonia was more of a “pay less taxes” independence way.

It’s true. I mean, the Catalan bourgeoisie is the one promoting Catalan independence, and this only benefits them, not the Catalan working class. In the Basque Country, the Basque bourgeoisie prefers to promote nationalism. It’s the Basque left that has promoted this idea of independence from the Spanish state the most. This is because following the acts of ETA, a large part of Spain discriminated against the Basque Country. My dad, when he did his military service, was in fact forced to lie about where he lived in order to avoid problems.

The “socialist party” I keep hearing in the news about I assume is PSOE which is socdem?

Yeah, they’re socdems, pro-EU, TERFs, and populists. The current government has done decent things not thanks to the PSOE, but thanks to the government partners who are slightly more radical than them (Unidas Podemos + EH Bildu + ERC). Still, they are a geopolitical disaster. The PSOE refused to join China’s Silk Road yet, for example.

Sorry for asking such rudimentary questions, I need some historic reads about the area to understand it better probably.

Don’t worry! It’s okay. But bear in mind that I’m probably not the best person to explain the situation here, so take what I say with a grain of salt (mostly because I’m still learning and my analyses may be poorly developed).

I assume the anti-independence protestors are fascists that want a Greater Spain or whatever as always.

Yep, you’re absolutely right. It’s only the most reactionary and right-wing extremists in the country who are protesting. In fact, to no one’s surprise, many Francoist flags have been spotted during the demonstration.

Is there a communist party with official information on this subject?

You can read this opinion article written by PCTE Secretary General (Astor Garcia) on this issue: https://www-nuevo--rumbo-es.translate.goog/2023/11/15/gobierno-amnistia-y-estabilidad/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=es&_x_tr_pto=wapp

Of course. Right now, the relationship between the Basques and the rest of Spain is delicate. There are still ETA political prisoners serving sentences outside the Basque Country. Many people demonstrated against this, as the families considered it unfair not to be able to visit them. But for example, in my opinion, the pro-independence sentiment among the younger generation has dropped considerably compared to other generations. In Catalonia as well, but there, independence is a current issue because of the exiles that took place after October 1th.

Right now there are demonstrations in Ferraz (Madrid) because the current president of Spain, Pedro Sanchez, has granted amnesty to the exiles and those responsible for the revolt of October 1th, and this has infuriated the extreme right-wing nationalists.

I could mention more, but in general this is the most relevant for now.

Eskerrik asko gure alde egiteagatik! <3

Oh, I didn’t know that.

Yeah, you’re right.

Okay. Thank you <3

They’re talking me through a Gambian number (+220) tho…

UPDATE 1: Thank you for all the support you are giving me. I told Abdou to go to the station, and I am accused of helping a trans person and sending her sexual pictures (which is not true, and they had to look at his phone to know that). I am scared because I know that in Gambia many LGBT things are forbidden… and because some accusations seem real. And they are harassing me to pay ASAP. Abdou said that it’s true all of this. The Police number that is harassing me is +220 358 5509, can you check if its real or not?

UPDATE 2: I am gathering information to report to the police. Apparently they have tried to scam people in my close circle also asking for money. It is more than clear that this is a scam. I will see if I can get something with the report (although I doubt it). Thanks for the help!

Can’t it be reported and get something out of it? She may not be the only victim, and the official Gambian police may not even know about it. In any case, if anyone is interested in helping me with this, I will pass on proofs and stuff so you can see that sometimes it is so well put together that it even looks real.

Cut your losses and stop giving money to people you don’t know.

And yes, great advice, I’m stupid for donating. I’ll do some self-criticism on this and be careful.