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I think with the media control the oligarchs already have, its a matter of time until they dominate public discourse maybe even to the point of rewriting history. Musk ambitions of eg. Grokipedia dont happen in a vacuum. They are well aware of the game they are playing.

In the gemini thread, there was someone (rightfully) impressed, how it gdb'ed onto a kernel module and debugged iouring. All the harnisses i used ran atleast an ACL away from private files and juicy capabilities. Wtf is happening in the community?

Those PR stunts are the paperclips we cannot stop.

AI will help humans eggvolute!

Just like any other language, you can get used to it. There are ways to hide the uglyness and i am not sure if this is a good thing. (i will always hate macros!)

None of the other languages are as strict as rust is. With eager clippy and cargo lints and software design as close to the type system as possible, LLMs have tight guard rails to land on point.

Well, letting the humanist rehabilitation part aside, there is that social aspect of a sanctioning instance to prisons. Expectations of sanctions do drive human behavior.

Was it a privately owned prison? How much freedom do private prisons have to turn opaque for inspectors?

You cannot compare these eras, where one offers a zeitgeist of scientific progress and opportunity and the other of global scale problems met with ignorance and stagnation.

The tides will turn in china, once that positive notion gets suffocated by misaligned elites.

* serving energy giants with subsidies.

This time, europe is already lost /s

As your left-leaning friend, i agree with you comrad, you are talking about MMT, which got already meantioned in here.

It was my GP comment, i was referring to with the inheritance tax. In socialism, taxation has, besides its state funding and steering function (punishment of undesired behavior, like a CO2 tax), the function of wealth redistribution to narrow the gap. Maybe you can achieve this goal without taxation but regulation alone, but this would require smart governmental intervention too.

Today, it is self evident, that regulation and taxation policies in many (all?) capitalistic countries had the opposite effect than narrowing the wealth gap. In the past years of crisis and even before, the rich were getting overproportionally richer than poorer milieus, leading to even more "democratic" represetation (money in politics) and them shaping the system even further to their advantage.

Today, it is more lucrative to put your money into the stock market than to start a business, eg. a small restaurant. This is undesireable and a result of a lack of taxation/regulation. I think, the US suffers the most of a financialized economy, where dilluted economists can point to GDP and say, "look, its all good". Its like a hypothermic body reaction, where blood gets stripped from the limbs to keep the organs going and the doctor says, "look, the heart still beats fine". The lack of public funding everywhere and the widening wealth gap are self evident and related.

You might think now, what does this have to do with socialism. The inheritance tax, naturalistic decomposition and the blood examples were about access, or redistribution of a resource that is currently elsewhere. I feel strange explaining this obvious imbalance and broad socialistic solutions to US americans and get hit with so much weird feedback. Socialism is kind of the vague middle ground in a capitalism-communism spectrum, but its also not only in the economic domain (inheritance tax), which means it is obviously compatible with capitalism. And yes, the english wiki article is factually incorrect, socialism is a family of ideas with a common goal but without a clear definition. With that angle, even the US is a socialist country, but this might never penetrate some red-voting veteran check receivers. This internalized propaganda of "socialism is bad and anti-capitalistic" combined with the obliviousness towards current problems of capitalism is frightening. I shouldnt be texting that much about obvious and basic facts.

I already gave one, inheritance tax, since its not tied to economic activity.

When you think the "survival of the fittest" nature analogy of capitalism further, then there should be no inheritance. All value that you have accumulated over your life (nutrition) is redistributed on your death into the environment, so in that analogy, capitalism shouldnt allow inheritance at all.

There are many more options of wealth distribution, which effect more wealthy people than the working class and in small-ish quantitiea, all of them are compatible with capitalism. Again, the devil is in the details.

Communists call leftists "reformists", that think you can reform capitalism into a stable state (like i do). If you rest there, you are not a communist but a socialist, so its not a stepping stone.

I jist checked the "bare definition" of socialism and a shiver went down my back when i saw the first eng wiki paragraph

> characterized by social ownership of the means of production

... incorrect propaganda on the wikipedia.

In the german article, its more accurate "there is not clear definition".

Its a familiy of ideas around wealth distribution with many degrees of freedom. Its not incompatible to capitalism, like communism is. I gues the eng wiki article is meant trigger stereotypes with "means of production".

Cooperatives are a capitalist mimicry of communism but not quite identical, but thats irrelevant.

Socialism is a broad collection of ideas around wealth distribution with alot of degrees of freedom, which leaves enough room to confuse ot with communism, i guess.

I think you fell for the typical right wing propaganda trope where socialism=marxism=communism. You presented the textbook definition of that propaganda and of communism.

> socialism defined by worker ownership of the means of production

Thats not socialism. It's vaguely a redistribution layer on top of capitalism. The article contrasts S. with C. which is also wrong.

Eg. inheritance tax does not restrict free enterprise, but the devil is in the details.

The techno fascists own the gov now, time to take out "ethical" leaders like dario.

Sparkle a little of Alon-distrust over it. Maybe its all fake again. We saw more sad music and emotions than really open convetsations.

Thats a joker card. Anything in space is just extra complexity. And raw training data is no bottleneck any more too.

Allergy is a poor analogy here, since it develops by not exposing yourself. I can understand your annoyance, i got bitten by hypes aswell, including rust. I am not regretting it so far.

I agree.

The friction is not an issue of the language or of toxic communities but the culture of how software is crafted and passed on. I use rust for hobby projects and besides the savety and soundness decisions, i love the tooling. Having countless [0] very restrictive guard rails like deny(clippy::float_arithmetic) for your usecases codifies intent about project structure in a way i have seen nowhere else. Not engaging with the benefits of rust but instead blanket-dismiss projects based on unrelated issues is irrational and i suspect its a phenomenon of older generations that grew up with C and never inherited eg. cobol on mainframes.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy

Thats why the covert sociopaths extend their dirty trickery on politics and public discourse.

Dont forget the holisitic validators/tools in the process. Probabilistics alone likely will not get you here. These rules are human made and without it, frontier models would not be able to compete, likely.

Apples and oranges. You cannot allow certain vital services to be run profit driven, when you care about the quality of that service. Thats a nobrainer to me, because nobrain makes purchase descisions too.

The IT sector in general doesnt deal with comparably vital services and is due to its immaterial nature much more competive. Driving costs to zero/minimum is a logical outcome of healthy free markets, which is a direct contradiction to profit driven enterprise. That is why Peter Tiel hates competition and my profit margins for eg, grocerie stores (healthy localized market) are quite low. The only way to satisfy the fiscal pressure, baked into the system and upheld by propaganda, of "get more or loose", is to cut spending/quality in such a market. And the only way to prevent that are institutions above the free markets slowly failing to deliver.

This "slowly failing to deliver" is imo a key characteristic of late stage capitalism and i can see it everywhere (you too?). BC. in financialized economies, the incentive is elsewhere, than maintaining rural infra, "health care, housing, education".

What changes fast thou, is economic structures and societal structures will follow. This is classic marx (base<->superstructure) or the power aspect of economics. One true dystopia i see possible, is mecha hitler slowly displacing and controlling (white collar) city dwellers to the point of silent obedience. This Anthropic article is imo propganda to buy time for shareholders and to delay potential stroms. Claiming AI as actors in a capitlistic system will fix systemic issues, is like claiming super sonic planes will fix world hunger.

Potato, potato, wealth is relative.

... next, GNU please. /s