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Prompt: The jig is up. And what now? Where do we go from here? Completion: Where Do We Go From Here: In the aftermath of the fall of the German Republican p
by macawfish 7y ago
Prompt:
The jig is up. And what now? Where do we go from here?
Completion:
Where Do We Go From Here: In the aftermath of the fall of the German Republican party, we now have a significant degree of instability across the earth’s systems of government and finance. The almost complete collapse of systemic forces in the Eurozone and limited success at stabilizing the system means the question is not if but when, what do we do next?
The answer is simple. We must move beyond the localized, bubble-like, and short-termist “get involved,” tactic of getting into the scene and trying to control it in some way. We have to come up with a way of shifting the socio-political power in the world, the prime place for transformation is worldwide at the supra-system level and not just the economy and finance. We must cast out the old dominated system, of which we have been just a part and recognize that we need a new dominant system that serves human interests, and the meta-level global system must serve human interests.
The fact that the global status quo is collapsing of its own weight shows us that the system is structured in such a way that the group of big players who have dominated and still dominate, are in ever-decreasing danger of losing both power and integrity.
The question now is, how? How do we avoid degeneration into chaos and conflict when the anarchic nature of the system leads inevitably to greater and greater competition among and frustration and anger in the younger generations?
This is a society, this is a planet and we live in the first global century of human history, which the young will pass from generation to generation in the next twenty years, or perhaps not. When we see the events of the last weeks and days, you can just imagine what will happen to this planet, to this planet and human society in the century ahead, and you can just imagine what the future will bring to this and subsequent generations.
When history describes the past, it sees the collapse of an old political establishment, of the traditional hierarchies of power, of society, of economics and finance. It sees a collapse in the old order of power and in the equilibrium it has created, which was grounded in constant growing jobs and the prosperity it produced. We are in the middle of a permanent expansion of capitalism, which also creates ever-growing wealth and prosperity for a small population of wealthy earners, while social polarization and inequality increase and older people depend on each other more and more desperately.
The forward and downward momentum of all these forces has created a situation in which there is almost no limit to the volume of the day to day, or minute to minute production and consumption, and in which there is no single concern about the future of the planet Earth. We have become so insatiable, in need, addicted to this ever increasing appetite for consumer goods, that we destroy the planet with it.
You see this just from what we feed our children, the choices we make, and the products we consume. You see it in our greedy attempts to buy as much as we can, even if it leads to ecological ruin. You see it in our drive to consume new and ever more lavish luxury products, materials, tools, devices, insatiable lifestyles, modern-day imperialism, racism, cynicism, competition, greed, consumerism, hubris, and endless pursuit of personal ambitions and leisure.
See how when push comes to shove, the social and economic growth created by the continued expansion of capitalism is now a life or death matter. See how the political establishment has failed us, all of us, and how we turned in desperation to another self-serving-self-protective-petty, self-interested-philistine mass-mediator, in the form of Mr. Romney, in order to maintain the old sources of power, to make the old social structures fit to serve human needs and the system could be kept going.
And now he has packed his bags and wants to leave, so there we are, stuck here with those of us who have found a way to provide for ourselves and live peacefully and prosperously, without the brutality and violence visited on us by politicians and corrupted systems. That is, unless we fix these broken systems and deliver an alternative based on human needs and human compassion.
How do we do it? How do we get there? Stay tuned and we’ll let you know.<|endoftext|>This exciting book is an overview of a phenomenon that started in the 1970’s, and became the most spectacular of all the urban myths. It combines all things the paranormal in this feature length book, from scientists to aliens to experimental reports.
William Kean is an astronomer working for NASA. One evening he is on his way to a remote overlook on a Martian hill. Suddenly, he is teleported to the top of a fifty story building, two thousand feet in the air. The building
- repolfx 7y agoThe sudden lurch into paranormal book review at the end is interesting. I guess it's because it went down the path of, "How do we do it? How do we get there? Stay tuned and we’ll let you know." ... that last sentence is probably very likely to occur in conspiracy theory/paranormal/UFO texts. It's very interesting that the model generated a basically coherent speech that could have come from any left-wing event or politician, given nothing more than "things are bad, what next" as a starting point. GPT-2 has correctly learned that Marxist thought is based on a form of catastrophism, as anyone who has read Marx will confirm. It's going to be fascinating to see how people use this. My guess is "that sounds like an AI wrote it" will become an insult meaning predictable and content-free. Even more fun will be putting the model into reverse and calculating a predictability score - if given the starting point of a real human written speech, GPT-2 rates each next word as highly likely, the overall speech can be said to be only N% insightful, where N is an actual scientifically defined measurement. Many people seem to adopt dystopian catastrophism about AI but I feel somewhat optimistic. In the same way that automated spelling and grammar checkers can help people write better, a GPT-2 run in reverse could help people write clearer prose that gets to the point quicker, or perhaps even force people to accept when they don't really have anything new to say. If a speaker doesn't use it then someone in their audience will, after all.
- macawfish 7y agoNotice that "<|endoftext|>" delimiter. A lot of the samples I generated had that, and would then rapidly switch into a whole different tone or style. Maybe there was an error in their training where they somehow didn't separate training samples properly? I don't know enough about machine learning to say. I also find it interesting that this sample got -4 points where the Sokal affair sample I posted got +4 points. I imagine it has more to do with the emotions each sample evokes in various hackernews readers. Could it be that hackernews readers are likely to have a distaste for postcolonialism, but are likely to be fans of materialist rationalism? I think so, based on years of reading their comments :)
- AdamDKing 7y agoOn the <|endoftext|>: GPT-2 and this model were trained by sampling fixed-length segments of text from a set of web pages. So if the sample happens to start near the end of one page then it will fill in the rest of the length with the beginning of another page. The model learns to do the same. TalkToTransformer.com hides this by not showing what comes after the <|endoftext|> token.