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- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
it’s as much “physics” as anything called “economics” today is going to get.
Yeah that’s kinda my point. “As much ‘physics’ as anything called “economics” today is going to get” is not necessarily “physics”. IMO, physics has one of the strongest standards of evidence of any field of endeavor. It’s an extremely strong comparison that I’m really hesitant to make about almost any other field of endeavor.
The triumph of physics is really the empirical evidence, and the mathematical models. E.g., we know Maxwell’s equations, we have oodles of physical evidence that it’s a sensible model, but what exactly is charge? Why do electrons have it? Physics doesn’t explain that. The point of physics is to be able to quantitatively analyze and predict physical phenomena.
Marxism and anarchism have oodles of evidence that they are sensible frameworks for economic analysis. And if I remember correctly, Das Kapital has some elementary equations, and Marx himself was in fact an early adopter of calculus. But to the best of my knowledge, these are both qualitative frameworks. Physics is primarily quantitative. (And even when it uses qualitative techniques, e.g. most of the work in nonlinear dynamics, these “qualitative” analyses quietly have a quantitative description, e.g. a Lyapunov function.)
Capitalist economics is essentially just a priesthood dogmatically working backwards to justify its continued existence blinding itself to as many problems caused by it as they can
Absolutely.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 2 days ago:
I mean it is possible that future Presidents will be more evil shrug-outta-hecks
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
I mean…is it? Like do we have a precise mathematical description for marxist economics like we have for physics? (This isn’t an “anarchism vs marxism"-type question, since to the best of my knowledge, anarchist economic systems also share a lack of formal mathematical model.)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Economics? Also physics.
Yeah they wish 😆
- Comment on Dare to dream 2 days ago:
I don’t know if it’s strictly more, but Firefox (and, by extension, Librewolf) does use a good amount of RAM. Also I use Librewolf too; the strikethrough is to suggest not to use Chrome.
- Comment on Seagirl 2 days ago:
Even cuter, rats are adorable
- Comment on Seagirl 2 days ago:
Even cuter now
- Comment on Seagirl 2 days ago:
i-think-that I truly do not understand why people hate seagulls so much. ancom-heart
- Comment on Name that tune. 3 days ago:
Hold up that looks really really interesting. Where’s this from?
- Comment on Facts 3 days ago:
L mods
- Comment on Facts 3 days ago:
that still sounds an awful lot like governing.
I mean shrug-outta-hecks it kinda depends on what definition of “government” you’re using, i.e. how much structure you give the word. I’ve been using “government” here as synonymous with “state”, which is a little imprecise.
The part of government to which I am opposed is the authoritarian, hierarchical, nonconsensual, and violent power structure it imposes on the world, i.e. the state. For this reason, both pragmatically and from a position of moral outrage, states are unfit for liberatory purposes.
But that does not necessarily mean I oppose other forms of organization, e.g., anarchist collectives, community defense organizations, unions, and technical societies. Of course, these must continue to be freely associated, anti-authoritarian systems which do not reinforce power structures. For the latter two in particular, although it is possible for any organization, these are absolutely not inherently guaranteed characteristics. Hence why we must continuously reevaluate all existing organizations and deconstruct power hierarchies wherever they pop up. One could reasonably argue that anarchist collectives, community defense organizations, unions, and technical societies are “governments” in a weak sense, i.e. a sense that allows governments to be freely associated and without dominance. I obviously don’t oppose these “governments” on principle.
But when ordinary people talk about “government”…they really mean the official organs of the state. They’re thinking about men in uniforms with guns bearing down on them to force them to follow the law. I oppose this. Revolutionary violence, by contrast, is temporary*, *targeted*, *defensive, and bounded, and should in only be introduced as a last resort. (That being said…we are literally hundreds of years past the point where defensive violence against the capitalist class became a necessity.)
Anarchists like me do not seek to establish a “revolutionary” state or even a permanent, hierarchical revolutionary vanguard (i.e., unlike other communists, anarchists are not vanguardists). We want the oppressed classes to free themselves from their power hierarchies, with bounded violence if needed (which it is). This is in stark opposition to the formation of a state.
- Comment on Facts 3 days ago:
In conclusion: corporations and governments are on the same team. Both deserve to be relegated to the dustbin of history ancom.
“Relegated” means “to consign to an inferior or obscure place, rank, or category”. And while I do not oppose governments regulating corporations (🤡 on 🤡 “violence” from my perspective) while both continue to exist, I want to see them both “relegated to the dustbin of history”, i.e. abolished by the freed proletariat as part of an anarchist revolution.
- Comment on Facts 4 days ago:
The AmeriKKKa government is unironically the most evil institution in all of history. It has committed several genocides, it has spread white supremacy and capitalism all across the globe, and it is leading the charge in destroying our entire ecology and all life on Earth. AmeriKKKa is an existential threat. Loyalty to AmeriKKKa is treason against life.
- Comment on Facts 4 days ago:
Yeah I’m saying abolish capitalism and government. Money too.
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- Comment on Facts 4 days ago:
The government taxes corporations as part of its mission to stabilize capitalism, i.e. to save the corporations from their own worst impulses. Capitalists say they hate the government, and indeed they sometimes individually clash with the State or its figureheads, but capitalists happily accept government money and protection from the proletariat.
And because the scope of government has increased, i.e. because governments simply do a lot more stuff than usual, occasionally they do things that are decent or uncontroversial. In a truly free society, these things should be handled by freely associated groups operating in continuous alignment with and consent from their communities, operating without the pernicious influence of capital and other oppressive, hierarchical, authoritarian social structures.
In conclusion: corporations and governments are on the same team. Both deserve to be relegated to the dustbin of history ancom.
- Comment on Dare to dream 4 days ago:
Two
ChromeLibrewolf tabs - Comment on I made a full Ai Movie Can y'all Review it 5 days ago:
you are not even capable of making this
Actually I know how to use AI tools and a video editor and I took coursework in video editing and theory of cinema, so yeah I probably can do it.
But the value of art is not just technical competence. I value the position and intentionality of the human in the art. I am skeptical of your ability to tell a story in a way that is unique or interesting. For example: you have spent the past month advertising your movie as an “AI movie”. Okay, what’s it about? Why would I want to watch this movie? Why would I give it some of my finite time on this miserable planet, which as a reminder you cannot get back and you don’t even know how much you have left, why would I give it my time when there are fifty bajillion other things done by humans for me to care about.
Like if you want to increase the probability of me watching it: what part did you play in this? It sounds like you didn’t film anything or generate any of the images by yourself, which really detracts from my interest considering film is a visual medium and I don’t find still AI art to be interesting for the same reason previously discussed. Did you edit it? Did you do the voice acting? Did you write the script? Did you edit the script? Where is the human in all this AI-generated content?
And it’s not hate. Not liking your work isn’t hate. Check my comments on capitalism and AmeriKKKa for some examples of true hatred. Because that’s the final thing: it is a scathing indictment of capitalism that AI replaced the artists before every other occupation. AI art and its unintentional uncanny valley aesthetic are representative of a world in which the capitalists use AI (or threats thereof) to keep the proletariat in a position of precarity. And the data centers used to train these algorithms are destroying local ecosystems. And besides putting human artists out of business, most of the other applications of AI have been death and destruction at the hands of police, armies, and governments. In particular, the Gaza Genocide and Iran War were powered by AI systems.
So in addition to the technical and non-political aesthetic concerns…AI art is currently the aesthetic of the oppressor. And it’s probably always gonna be that way, because the first thing that AI took away from us, the literal first thing, was the job of being an artist.
And to be clear, I think that AI has legitimate uses. I use it as a LaTeX assistant. And there are a few uses of AI and machine learning in medicine. Like I am hundreds of pages into reading statistical learning theory textbooks for a reason!
But I don’t want this crap in my art. Please I beg you, just film your movies with your own cameras, or do it in Gmod or GTA V if you can’t do it in real life or animate it, or come up with some other clever way to do it. Sing the song with your own voice. Because I’m just not interested in watching frames generated by AI systems. And that aesthetic preference is absolutely gonna be the norm on an openly anti-capitalist platform like Lemmy.
- Comment on I made a full Ai Movie Can y'all Review it 5 days ago:
Please actually film or animate your movie first.
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Happy July 4th weekend to everyone except the supporters of the vile AmeriKKKan Empire. And to those supporters: please be haunted forever by the innocent victims brutalized by the demonic settler-colonial entity you’ve sold your soul to
- Comment on Neil the Seal 5 days ago:
He gets a pass for being so cute ancom-heart
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- Comment on Boomers scolding us about how they were able to buy a house working at a gas station... 1 week ago:
- Comment on How come Dems never hit back at the Maga movement by calling them maggots? 1 week ago:
They do tho
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I appreciate the fire AmeriKKKa, but in my parents’ house we invite more people than we have glassware, plus it’s less dishes to wash.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I mean I don’t really go to that many parties (shocker), but when my parents throw parties, usually they get whatever the cheapest disposable cups are.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It’s a real thing we do…is that weird?
- Comment on Why is most music today follow a math cadence? Then add rhyming? Are artist today really that bad they have to resort to that instead of it natural stuff? 1 week ago:
Bruh I wish music followed a math cadence
- Comment on She skipped groceries for a week to pay for that Little Caesars. 1 week ago:
I mean yeah, my parents are not even remotely anti-capitalist lol
