Atlas667

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by Atlas667 1y ago
Because capitalism is not able to regulate itself, no matter how much people say it can. And this has been known for 150+ years and it has been written about extensively, its just not considered acceptable/appropriate knowledge. Marxis
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by Atlas667 1y ago
Narcissism and Elitism justified by material wealth. What else? Rationalism isn't any more "correct" and "proper" thinking than Christianity and Buddhism claim to espouse.
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by Atlas667 1y ago
Anything that you do as a career will lead to this. - Split a paper into three - Waste efforts by running the same research with a slight change - Plagiarism - Inter-peer favors (corruption, dishonesty) Funding/grants, journals, publis
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by Atlas667 1y ago
Y'all are discovering how censorship in capitalism works... It's about volume(loudness), access(to data) and exposure(visibility).
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by Atlas667 1y ago
A machine that can imitate the products of thought is not the same as thinking. All imitations require analogous mechanisms, but that is the extent of their similarities, in syntax. Thinking requires networks of billions of neurons, and t
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by Atlas667 1y ago
Right on. The problem is capital. Of course many people are allergic to Marx, but the dude hit the nail on the head with his critique. The problem is not individuals, it's a system of ownership over assets. And 99% of people will use t
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by Atlas667 1y ago
That IS the wonder of the digital age. Limits are artificial. Sharing is defacto. A new world is struggling to be born; this is the time of monsters. Capital WILL neuter all software and hardware to make their reality happen. Capital WILL m
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by Atlas667 1y ago
> Weapons and rationales don't fight wars themselves (yet). And people dont fight wars without weapons and rationales. I am specifically saying that a lot of the chaos in the third world is the result of opposing global-capitalists
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by Atlas667 1y ago
I agree. The point of the genocide in Gaza is to erase internal resistance. To erase internal cultural, ethnic and religious ties to their enemies. Eliminate "the enemy within". This is why they are ending a peoples. Straight colo
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by Atlas667 1y ago
> The third worlders fighting over cobalt don't want peace, they want wealth for themselves. They are enabled into fighting by big, huge interests. They ship them weapons and rationales. Who are the customers in the end? Western nat
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by Atlas667 1y ago
The will of the masses is NEVER enacted. This is what bourgeois capitalism is. Oh you like phones? Well our phone companies require us to directly or indirectly create proxy wars in this region in order to acquire the raw materials necessa
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by Atlas667 1y ago
THEY WILL TARGET YOU too if you ever find yourself against western and/or Israeli interests. Capitalist technologies are the surveillance state incarnate. They must study people in order to manufacture consent. Remember democracy is ma
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by Atlas667 1y ago
The same way a lot of cool video content/research/products are: crowd source. Even air can be monetized if you have the right legal team and tech. And we're all random working class people who can't afford a good lawyer
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by Atlas667 1y ago
Yeah, in a sense. The US' software domination has really spooked a lot of people and nation states. No one really trusts US tech companies. And sure, "everybody spies", but that in and of itself will bring a lot more competit
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by Atlas667 1y ago
There are only 2 logical solutions, the powers that be will either create heavier blinders within nation states or the public creates truly independent/public systems. Social mass-media is doomed to fail in its current form. These plat
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by Atlas667 1y ago
Its lawyers forcing copyright to stay alive. But it isn't sustainable is what I mean. A lot of TV is free now (with ads), media is less profitable using their old system. The future is open, they're just buying time. Piracy can
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by Atlas667 1y ago
Think: How did they target all of those Iranian scientists? Most likely through their phones. They can just track you if they wanted to. Everybody knows it. This sentiment is part of why the USA will lose the propaganda war. There is no amo
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by Atlas667 1y ago
Copying takes negligible amounts of energy. It is only a matter of time. Copyright is doomed to fail.
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by Atlas667 2y ago
Without enough knowledge they definitely are equal. How do you know THIS isn't top-level reality? You can't say this isnt the top-level reality because of your belief of escape. Only if you can confirm this is a simulation then th
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by Atlas667 3y ago
This thread is pretty wild. It's interesting to see north-western racism and african homophobic laws exposed like this. I don't think it should have been an issue and PSF should have been clear about the reason behind their delay.
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by Atlas667 3y ago
Nothing to see here, just platforms naturally developing under capitalism. Just like the development of any other industry their purpose gently transforms into maximizing shareholder value and not to provide equal value to the consumer, thi
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by Atlas667 3y ago
It takes a person with an understanding of capitalist frameworks to notice that real user serving communities cannot truly exist for long inside a market. Everything turns to crap when developed for profits. This happens all the time but no
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by Atlas667 4y ago
Self driving cars and trucks are inefficient and much more can be achieved with public transportation like trains, trams, buses, etc. The inherent problem is that these are marketing gimmicks permitted by our current technological developme
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by Atlas667 4y ago
I wonder what or who could be behind this? What's to gain exactly?
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by Atlas667 4y ago
This is it. The core of societies and production, the root of geopolitics. To map out these supply chains is to map the material and social relationships of whole economies. And what this article is talking about is war. The edge between st
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by Atlas667 4y ago
I'm sure you're wrong. I say this about the universe not because i made it up, but because i see the pattern and i recognize a material cause for it. Tree branches and arteries try to complete a similar function. They want to cove
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by Atlas667 4y ago
Yes, i agree. the fact that lightning and tree roots look similar are not enough to explain complex life. But i do think the universe is bound to imitate itself at different scales. How a human is made of cells and societies are made of ind
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by Atlas667 4y ago
I dont think that's where this conversation was going. I believe you got that impression from me mentioning fractals, but even so fractals are only self similar not identical. Maybe the fractal nature of computing is not in the "a
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by Atlas667 4y ago
I think so. That's why reality has fractal shapes. Circuit boards look like cities for electrons. Rivers look like arteries in a body. Lightning looks like offspring lineages. The universe has a few fundamental processes in it that rep
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by Atlas667 4y ago
Someone forgot to read Marx. Money is both a means of transfer and a store of value. The reason for those conditional properties in crypto (secure and efficient but not valuable) is because currencies have value embedded in them, it is an a

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