"We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter..." -- Sam Altman

[megmac@social.treehouse.systems]

@jenniferplusplus @cwebber yes! This is a thing I keep coming back to in how I feel about what's going on. The effort here is to build the ultimate "rent a shovel" service where the entire economy is dependent on an oligopoly of cloud providers to functionally do work.

I can live with a lot of things I don't like, but that's basically anathema to me.

[aspensmonster@tenforward.social]

@lykso @cwebber Some flavour of Marxist.

[amici@fribygda.no]

@elexia @lykso @cwebber

I agree it's a simplification, but I also have issues with those who try to take away the historical context of anarchism, such as to describe vague and inconsistent relationships with the state and authority overall

ancaps and "lifestyle anarchists" come to mind

in my opinion all anarchists are communists, otherwise their use of the term anarchism is highly suspect - I certainly would like to know why they think their position is significantly different to an ancom

[lykso@tiny.tilde.website]

@amici @elexia @cwebber I definitely tend to think of myself as some form of small-c "communist" under which many positions may fall, including anarchist ones.

I recognize that there are people who appropriate the term "anarchist" without understanding the self-contradictory nature of their position, most notably ancaps.

But again, I need to read more.

[critakitty@wetdry.world]

@cwebber the time between people uncovering fascists' hidden motivations and them saying the quiet part out loud continues to shrink. they're practically scrambling over themselves to shout about how evil they are from the rooftops.

[rainbowtastetester@mastodon.social]

@cwebber intelligence on tap that hallucinates and invents bullshit.

[mxchara@seattle.pink]

@cwebber wait, they don't recognize Internet service as a utility...

[sherold@mastodon.online]

@AlexanderVI @cwebber So? How did it go?

[gotofritz@hachyderm.io]

@cwebber

Isn't that slightly overdramatic? It's just a bit of marketing hype

[cwebber@social.coop]

@gotofritz I don't think so. But it's a deeper topic.

[cwdolunt@dice.camp]

@kate @paul_ipv6 @cwebber And making our ponds and lakes go dry in the process. I'm looking at you, Ice Mountain.

[violetmadder@kolektiva.social]

@lykso @amici @elexia @cwebber

Small C communism was the word originally, anarchism came a bit later-- I think after the split at the 1st International, where Marx ran off in a more authoritarian direction just like Bakunin worried he would.

[happyborg@fosstodon.org]

@jenniferplusplus I think there's a word for that sl.. sla.. um slavery!

Gotit?

[amici@fribygda.no]

@violetmadder @lykso @elexia @cwebber

never heard of the term "Small C communism" being used in those times, it sounds like a very modern turn of phrase

but I know "anarchist" was initially applied as an insult, and was then later adopted by would-be anarchists as a way to describe themselves

before that the term, as a way to describe a political position, comes from the work of Proudhon, which I haven't read but would like to some day

[xyhhx@social.treehouse.systems]

@elexia

@lykso @cwebber

[mwyman@mastodon.social]

@cwebber @jalefkowit The next DMCA will criminalize independent thought that doesn’t rely on the intelligence utility

[cwebber@social.coop]

@mwyman @jalefkowit grok is this true?

it isn't?

I'm sorry i didn't mean it Grok i was just asking

[sigsegv@hachyderm.io]

@cwebber This tracks in the context of destroying education.

[classwario@mastodon.social]

@jenniferplusplus @cwebber it’s the value portion that’s terrifying, beyond the implications of some tech bro claiming all of humanity’s collective online output as their own. If 99% of people’s value has been labor (synonymous with “intelligence” here), and that labor is offloaded, there’s no value of people anymore. Capitalism: this breaks the market for the thing selling labor back to labor. (Techno Feudalism: intelligent people are worthless, expendable.)

[janantos@f.cz]

@lykso @cwebber better not, “love” the people from western countries glorifying communism. Come to us to Eastern Europe, we will show you monuments of remembrance of victims of communism, and you hopefully will understand you are talking nonsense. Communism and Nacism should never exist. Shame on people who glorify any of those brutal despotic systems.