marxisthayaca [he/him,they/them]

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Cake day: July 25th, 2020

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  • I second the comment about readability.

    If I understand correctly, you think Communists are more enamored with shiny new technology than the neoliberal capitalist-addled peddlers of said technology, their financiers, and the government bureaucrats who run the show? The communists who are either stuffy academics whose entire job relies on the knowledge economy, and the working class (and more often the working poor) whose precarity often leaves them with little time to explore new technology, and said technology whose implementation might end with them being let go as a cost-cutting procedure? That group is more enamored with LLMs?

    And that Karl Marx, who wrote about the intensification of labor due to the adoption of machinery that broke work into smaller and unskilled steps that allowed artisans to be replaced with people picked off the street in brutal and nasty competitive “labor auctions” that were only fair in name only, but were tilted to the Capitalists, up until a Union is formed (which are also inevitably busted and suppressed)? That Karl Marx?

    Where are you seeing this happen in this forum? I am personally open to LLMs but I come at it from the fact that most labor is stupid, unnecessary, and that learning to automate your work is subversive, if and only if, you don’t tell management about it. If you learn to automate all your work and then you can fuck off to play video games or read philosophy treatsies, then why the fuck not? But you also have to think ahead to the inevitable collapse of the current token pricing model, and find ways to run this stuff with open source technology.