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I'm totally inexperienced when it comes to organizing so take this with a grain of salt, but you might want to just focus on solving the issue at hand before making some rule for communist purity. That way you can be more far reaching in gathering a community around it.

If you are personally a communist and you set a good example in your community then naturally people may follow. But starting from the top down with communism is probably not going to help and might put your project dead on arrival.

Do you have any socialist orgs near you? Honestly I think that would be the best people to have discussion with as in-person > online (though that's just my preference)

sure this is a cost-cutting measure

I'm so tired of hearing this. We're going to annihilate the human race to cut costs

It's there only weapon. Being morally superior. Actually it's not even moral, it's just being an ass kisser to whatever laws in place and assuming it's moral because it's a law.

A strong argument for why you should never appease them, but that's all the democrats do and thus you have this rightward shift of the political spectrum in America

A frequent issue i see with "apolitical" people is that in reality they reinforce the status quo (ruling political ideology) and they are hostile to any effort to try to circumvent it because it's seen as political and they're against any politics. It's sort of a deadlock because they arent aware of just how political they are actually being by doing nothing.

I think replacing coders with AI is still ways away. But if your boss is saying thats what he wants to do, then you should consider your days numbered. I think one of the aims of AI is that you can have less skilled workers be productive with them and thus don't require experienced engineers which are rarer and have higher wages. I see it kind of like how the automotive industry's technological advancements "de-skilled" workers and thus you not only didnt need highly skilled workers, but you could also get away with hiring less workers. AI is not one-to-one with the assembly line though so this isnt a predetermined outcome.

Now I don't think less-skilled worker = low performer. Low performers at these companies are just people that can't politically defend their jobs. I really hate the term because it always comes up as a point of contention when talking about unionizing (in any industry) and it just serves to divide workers. It's so obvious to me because "low performer" is only used for describing workers at the bottom of the company hierarchy and never at the leadership level.

I do like though that Zuckerberg is just saying the quiet part out loud for why capitalists are investing so much money into AI. If anything it just makes the contradictions of capitalism easier to point out.

I feel this as well. Being a principled communist is the most isolating thing in capitalist society. The only thing I've learned is the same thing I've learned when I was pursuing different hobbies -- the only way to not isolate yourself is find friends within the hobby you have a interest in rather than try to convert friends into your hobby as it is almost impossible to get them interested if they aren't already. The advantage of communism though is it is much more than a hobby and can relate to everyone, so there is some hope that others will come around if the movement becomes larger.

These memes are funny until you meet one of these people in person and you realize you cant reason with them

I hope it doesnt take until 2050 to see some kind of international socialist movement. I think we need to prepare for revolutionary action within our own countries and the best we can hope from China is they would support it if we were to succeed. And as other people said getting organized is key to that -- there are many spontaneous events that help radicalize people but its about seizing those opportunities to create a lasting movement.

China's non-interventionism is both a blessing and a curse.

Luddism part 2.

I think the question is if AI, as a tool, can make such a quantitative change in productivity that there is a qualitative change in the relations of production. Otherwise it's just going to be the same as all other increases in productivity this century which sharpen the contradictions of capitalism.

I mean from my experience with chatgpt, it has def been trained on Marxist theory texts. And it gets some of it right and some of it wrong in the same way it gets anything right or wrong.

LLM's are black boxes. You can't modify their algorithm and influence them at the layer of abstraction to be pro or anti anything (at least from my understanding). The only way you could do that is by cherry picking its training data, and even then it's still a black box so it could potentially have a bias towards the opposite of what you intend.