Plebcouncilman

I know next to nothing about using the command line, so I’ve been relying pretty heavily on ChatGPT to set my stuff up and so far it has reliably helped me overcome every issue. The problem is, of course, that I often don’t even understand what the issue was in the first place so I don’t even know if the fix that the ai spits out is, let’s say, correct. I don’t really want to become an It expert, I just want to be able to host some services on my own to depend less on corps, is it alright if I continue to rely on the AI? Or do you guys think that I just have to learn this stuff or else I might mess up?

I don’t have great security concerns btw, my ISP doesn’t allow port forwarding, so I access my server exclusively though Tailscale.

Of course it has not done it freely, it’s part of the process. It’s not clear to me that even if somehow everyone tomorrow woke up as a socialist that there would be no dominant class that “exploits” the other. I’m not even fully convinced that that is possible at all, hierarchy forms naturally in our species and even in a post scarcity society those who are smarter and more charismatic would have more influence than those who are not. It would maybe lead to true meritocracy, but I do not know that there will ever be a human society without hierarchy nor am I convinced that’s necessarily desireable.

However I do think that even though in sheer numbers the wealth disparity is enormous and disgusting, when you remove stuff like being able to influence politics and buying planes or ships and other unnecessary and wasteful stuff, the difference between the elite and the lower classes is not that great. By that I mean, that both middle and low income people have access to stuff as cars, phones, food, shelter ( this is the one that is most fucked atm and where the current order is breaking) entertainment etc at the same basic level as the rich, which was not the case in the past. Of course in other parts of the world things are different , and the reason for that is that we exploit them (one reason I was in favor with Trumps tariffs), but you can still see that worldwide quality of life is trending up. And by this what I mean is that I think there will be no huge revolution that changes the world order. We tend to frame and crave history in terms of huge one of a lifetime events but in reality most things happen gradually and I think we are gradually moving towards the direction of socialism thanks to the struggle and there pressures that you mention which yes, force capitalism to adapt in order to survive.

And thanks for the rec will be sure to check it out once I’m done with my current reading. I’ve heard a lot about Trotsky but have yet to read him.

I don’t know if he came up with the thought himself or if he’s repeating someone else but Zizek has said various times that capitalism is in constant crisis, and that’s how it reinvents itself in order to stay functional. I have no doubt that we are in such a crisis and in the midst of its reinvention. And look I know socialists and Marxists get accused of being deterministic but if we look at history, through the decades capitalism is integrating socialism into it. I think at some point it will simply be socialism. We’re just not there yet, I think that won’t happen until human labor has no value.

You’re being myopic or extremely pessimistic.

Myopic because Trump only has 3.5 years left as president, and we see how quickly he folds as soon as the stock market takes a hit: he already capitulated to China. This is the thing he ran on twice, bringing jobs back to America and he more or less abandoned that project the moment he decided to lower tariffs on china. So the market will continue as it has until neoliberalism implodes for real instead of this false start.

Or pessimistic, because you believe that Trump will fuck up so bad that the SP500 will be worthless in 3 years. In which case, I would not invest in stock at all and would buy ammo, guns, stockpile food and build a shelter because a cataclysmic scenario is the only thing that could cause that.

Remember SP500 is for long term investment, so when thinking about it you need to think not of what’s happening today but what will happen in 5+ years. If I was evaluating this, I would have stockpiled cash last year and would have spent this year buying the dips.

I don’t really understand this mentality. Is it a younger gamer thing? I can enjoy games on their own merits without having to compare them with anything else. Besides, the best aspect of Avowed is its gameyness so to speak . It’s just the right length and pick up and play enough that busy people like me can play it and actually finish it. I’ve been meaning to play BG3 but I if I do I have to commit to it for a year at least, and that’s a hard pill to swallow. And I always finish every game I start, especially RPGs.

Wanna talk about all the weird ass, some times AI generated videos that YouTube kids has? I’m sure there’s a few mind wash Chinese and Russian Trojan horses. One day someone will say skibidi toilet at just the right pitch and an entire generation of KGB agents will activate or some shit.

The president has broad authority to nominate who ever he wants for these roles whether they are qualified or not. I don’t think this is up for debate, and to be frank it shouldn’t even be debated. The boss gives the job to whoever he wants (a good leader chooses the right person, a bad leader does what Dozing Donald does).

But if a blatantly unqualified person gets the job, that’s on congress for playing politics instead of doing their job as they are supposed to.

I understand the logic, I just think it’s intellectually dishonest and dilutes the meaning of the word fascist to the point it becomes meaningless.

I agree with what you say, but if there’s one thing I like about libertarians is that they are often the most consistently committed to the ideology. There’s also shades of libertarians; for example I’m somewhat in their camp though I do believe some regulation is needed and that industries where for profit corporations have perverse insentives to not provide the best service possible (ie healthcare) it should be funded by the government and managed by an independent but governmental organization. I’ve seen some say they are socialist libertarians, though I’m not sure how that works exactly. Maybe it’s all coops?

Ok well I didn’t know that, but it doesn’t change my argument.

That doesn’t say anything about the content of the modification itself. For all you know the internal policy could be that white genocide is a thing. But what they are in fact referring to that violates the internal policies is modifying the prompt in such a way that it takes a specific stance on a political issue. Cmon man use your brain, it’s not that fricking hard.

If the contents of the prompt were to say that white genocide is a thing, it would have likely have said something along the lines that it is a nuanced topic of debate and it depends on how you define the situation or some other non answer. But the AI was consistently taking a stance that it was misinformation, that tells you what the prompt was. Also it was reported in other outlets that that was in fact what the modification was, to not spread misinformation about that.

I guess you didn’t read the article, or don’t understand how LLMs work so I’ll explain.

An employee changed the AI’s system prompt, telling it to avoid spreading white genocide misinformation in South Africa. The system prompt is a context that tells the AI how to work with the prompts it is given and it forces it “to think” about whatever is on there. So by making that change in the system prompt every time someone prompted Grok about anything, it would think about not spreading misinformation about white genocide in South Africa, so it inserted that into pretty much everything.

So it doesn’t bother me because it’s an LLM acting as it is supposed to when someone messes with the settings. Grok probably did not need these instructions in the first place, as it’s consistently been embarrassing Elon every time the man posts one of his shitbrained takes, and while I haven’t used that AI, I don’t think, or have yet to see proof that Elon is directing it’s training to be positive conservative ideologies or harebrained conspiracy theories. It could be for all I know, but from what I’ve seen Grok sticks to facts as they are.

A lot of people are reading the misleadingly titled articles about this thinking that Elon made the AI spread the notion that there’s such a thing as a white genocide in South Africa when that was not at all what happened. You need to read the actual article or else you’re falling for the same shit the MAGAtards do.

Did you read what Grok was saying? Grok was saying that white genocide is questionable at best, and unfounded.

It was just saying when prompted about unrelated stuff which is what made it bizarre. It never said it was a real thing, nor endorsing the idea that it is something real.