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This particular set of incoherent sentence fragments in the article don't really make the point the title implies. Or any point. But I'll reply to where it's co
by superkuh 6mo ago
This particular set of incoherent sentence fragments in the article don't really make the point the title implies. Or any point. But I'll reply to where it's coming from.
This is one of those "blind monks touching different parts of the elephant and arguing over what shape it is" things. Facist leaning corporations are basically the only interaction with machine learning that most people have these days. Like how corporate scams are the only interaction with cryptocurrency 99% people have. They're not wrong about their experiences. But they're also not talking about the technology. They're talking about the corporate users of that technology.
Just to be clear, this is the full and complete text of the article on that URL. It makes me wonder what others are responding to because this is just incoherent word spam:
>This “country-wide *book-keeping,* country-wide *accounting* of the rate of interest above the soviets. Before seizing power, the dangers “if the liberty of those letters seem to concern about history, about how little weight the costs outweigh the costs. Therefore, for a massive rebirth of the party in his belief that, for the political evolution.
>Was defeated.”* [Max Anger, “The Spartacist School of Falsification”, *Anarchy: A Graphic Guide*, Camden Press, London, 1974. *The Third Revolution: Popular Movements in France during the Russian Civil War did break out, to crush.
>“turn this into a higher infant mortality is 7 per cent of the social order.’” The interest rate is, in part, because if the SWP fail to highlight mass examples of what Trotskyists like Harman do when they had introduced a petition.
- phoronixrly 6mo agoI don't follow your logic. 99% of people only interact with cryptocurrency because of a scam but you think that we should be discussing the technology instead? Why? The technology itself seems to be much less important than the widespread fraud it enables... And even then, people were discussing the effect of the technology on the environment, and on energy and component prices... They were also discussing the actual underlying technology below cryptocurrencies - the blockchain, and how it is yet to find its killer app, even as of this day...
- preachit 6mo ago[dead]
- GuinansEyebrows 6mo ago> They're not wrong about their experiences. But they're also not talking about the technology. They're talking about the corporate users of that technology. i think that's the point they're trying to make: the users and purveyors of the technology are inextricable from the technology itself; and given who the purveyors are, we can safely/rightly assume that their profit motives (at best) or cultural motives (more sinister) will be at the forefront of their push to expand the uses of these technologies. i don't think it's a particulary well-fleshed out point (as another commenter said, what do we actually do with this besides burn down datacenters?) but it's still worth making clear that we are allowed to be as cynical about this technology as the purveyors are about their target users.