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If they are allowed to turn it off, and there are no repercussions for missing or withheld footage of moments civilians claim abuse, bodycams only serve as a framing weapon against the populace.

i find it distressing how little i see people bring up the half million dead kids from his chainsaw.

my least favourite type of typo, appreciate the note!

You’re getting downvoted, but I wish people could understand how multiple things can be simultaneously true.

It’s not “both sides.” It’s “one side is nazis, and the other side is robber barons wearing the skin of leftist ideals, preventing legislation for the people, and trying to profit off of the nazi stuff.”

Like, with the fascist takover going on you have chuck going "I hear the will of the people, who want us to focus on funding Israel. Don’t worry, I hear you, the sick, hungry, and educators can absolutely tough it out for Israel. "

Democrats have shown direct complicity with the republican actions, largely through people incentivized to actively kneecap any effort to help regular people instead of the wealthy. Look at and review on legislation vs public preference vs corporate preferences.

But no, the only way to cooperate in changing the system is investing more deeply into the inevitable pendulum of the two party system pushing the overton window towards oppression with each swing. One slower but more discreet. The other is Nazis being nachos Nazis.

Neither is the solution to the problem, but systemic and socialized changes in how we act and react to the systems we are in, as bottom up networks.

People have to interact with the political reality and put energy into it, but we’ve already socialized that shame and laziness is a failure to participate in the socio-economic hierarchy, rather than a lack of spending energy on basic ethics and epistemic hygiene.

We need new tools and behaviours to interact with new problems. This takes energy, which makes it socially unpopular. But we all die if we don’t find basic cooperation to fix a feedback loop that lost the plot.

People shat on “don’t look up” for being too “on the nose and snobbish.” yet here we are, with people living in socialized framing bubbles that are just as aggressively ignorant.

But bringing that up is cringe.

Yes vote against the nazis, but don’t let people believe that means we are not still in existential danger.

when biden or obama had senate and house majority? when clinton had senate and house majority? as far as the last few decades go, there’s been lots of chances to actually get shit done, or to stop fucking up other countries.

and now when they have power to at least slow down the fascist stuff, they go “woops we accidentally didn’t stop it at all,” again, and again, and again.

could probably go back even further for dems having a lot of power, but it’s really ramped up since it became more legal to bribe democrats into kneecapping their own party on anything that matters.

it’s pretty flat across the board that every basically every movement the two party system has made has been towards the wishes of the rich over the actual people.

not seeing an “/s” here, so not entirely sure if you’re suggesting the current environment is the fault of leftists not ensuring democrats win every single election, and not the system that continues to increase oppression year after year regardless of the fact. for decades. even when democrats have all the power. things STILL move in the fascist direction.

i think what the meme is saying, is to focus less on the false ultimatum, and more on changing the system in a way that’s literally impossible within the two party system, through diverse cooperative efforts that support each other for a bottom-to-top growth in the ability to affect how the system actually works.

weirdly, every time democrats get into power, they don’t undo any of the stuff the heritage foundation and types are pushing to fully remove the power of the public over their corpo overlords.

it’s like blaming the poor for not “spending their money better” in a system ruled by monopolies, and institutional violence that puts all regulation and accountability towards the poor, and none to the rich. also “voting with your dollar” vs literal multi multi billionaires who could easily plan around your vacancy, or otherwise destroy your other avenues for meeting your needs.

maybe the issue isn’t in where you are voting, but when your choices are the fascists and the controlled opposition, who’s actions entirely support the fascists they are supposed to be fighting against.

Slop generally should be seen as negative. It lacks novelty, and relies on blending old concepts, while entirely avoiding exploration and novelty. Although people have such poor understanding of both creativity and intelligence that the dialogue that gets socialized around AI is pretty unhinged. Copyright is just a system altered so that old money oligarchs can hoard “human software” under the guise of empowering creators. This leads to things like the tumblr “you stole my style” wars. And now being a “real” artist means being an AI slop style intern for Disney types. Good art such companies make are due to the intern artists, DESPITE the corporate influence, but it’s always incentivized to be enshittified by the active corporate process.

Turing was trying to show many aspects of intelligence. Michael Levin from Tufts university is carrying on Turing’s work in morphogenesis, which is showing how concepts built in counterfactual spaces are used in a systems actively updating as they grow into new eco-niches. This lets you feel out the new space, even in abstract conceptual spaces that are detached from your sensory signals. This let’s you build abstract yet useful patterns depending on what parts of reality seem important for your type of system. Rudimentary eyes might not comprehend the sun, but it can use it as a binary gate for an internal mechanism to activate, enabling survival tools that rely on detecting day/night, even if those concepts aren’t comprehended in the heuristic. You build robustness through scale and diverse means to build perspective and weighting active Bayesian predictive systems on top of, inside, and around each other.

LLMs don’t have the active updating, so can’t grow into novel spaces, which is important.

They however are great at certain impulse probabilistic decision making, not unlike our ability to effortlessly spew coherent combinations if words, although we need another system to pay attention and halt that process when it makes mistakes, and also to direct salience. When you don’t add deeper novel patterns, but just the facade of patterns you’ve seen, you often get something that likes like generative slop, especially if you’re familiar with the deeper meaning that’s being inappropriately usurped to signal a fake competence. Like when AI mostly gets what a hand is, but easily gets confused due to a lack of robustness or ability to recognize what is actually wrong with an extra few fingers. When our own robust “checks” fail, we might start hearing voices that aren’t consistent with reality, as one mis-weighted system projects into another. Confabulation is a big part of intelligence, although its not inherently hallucinatory.

LLMs are definitely a part of human style intelligence. That’s why Geoffrey Hinton talks about how our brains “ping.” turing has an amazing understanding of intelligence, especially for his time. Intelligence is also many things, as by its very nature is a growing grab bag if heuristics to call on or balance on. As hinton suggests, the layman comprehension of intelligence is flat earth level of misrepresented.

I think if Turing were alive he’d be in love with current academic dialogues, and he’d probably be a furry.

Because the POTUS has spent the last couple weeks threatening neighboring allies after killing a bunch of Venezuelans, kidnapping maduro, and claiming all the oil.

Do you know that project 2025 group “the heritage foundation” that’s running this turdfest? Their parent group the ATLAS network is currently spreading separatist propaganda in Alberta. The part of Canada with all the oil.

It’s very topical.