Linked without comment. Because there are plenty of hilarious ones to read already.
Many in the wealthy countries are afraid they themselves or relatives that are self-employed and/or small business owners will be hit by either social-democracy, socialism and the likes.
Rightwing libertarianism is what we would in the past call classic liberalism. They are for an extremely small government with only the basics of a state, called a night-watchman state. With the market unregulated and preferably isolationism.Is there's a conceptual difference between libertarianism and anarch capitalism?
Very much true. Although sympathy for the petit-bourgeoisie might be significant because you can actually meet and talk to them by simply entering a local store.It doesn't explain the position of the larger segment of the working class that do not know anyone petite bourgeois yet still resist statism.
So this is in North Carolina, US unions using Red? never thought i would see that
CONGRATS <3Haven't been posting much in his thread recently because this past week I got married and then got sick (probably from someone at the reception). Hopefully soon I'll be unbusy/unsick enough to post something worthwhile!
I'm surprised to see that nobody's brought up Maduro winning re-election in Venezuela.
Has Maduro even put forward any kind of program for how he realistically intends to address the crisis in Venezuela or is his plan just "keep solidifying more power and hope for the best"?
I agree he's not socialist, but imo he's an authoritarian Center-left government.The mistake is assuming Maduro is left wing simply because they say they are. A kleptocractic capitalist and protectionist regime isn't particularly Left.
Depends on the definition you use, i use the one that left fights for equality. So If there's an intention and policies to bring more equality Its a leftist government, but Its true that authoritarian and reformist policies are points that brings It more to the right, If the authorianism becomes a point to perpetuate inequality and status quo, then i agree thats a right Wing government at this point. For now i see social policies to the poor and an intention to that yet.Wouldn't an authoritarian state null and semblance of Leftism?
"When there is the State there can be no freedom"
Interesting polling here, though I'd be wary of reading any overly sweeping conclusion from it:
also, congrats sphagnum
Corruption and kleptocracy is a Tool argument used today by the right Wing in all latin America to get in Power, while the corruption and kleptocracy of the right Wing is protected and so they appears as bastions of morality, weakening the left and winning elections.Venezuela is a authoritarian, incredibly corrupt ultra-kleptocracy. It's basically 90s Russia with the PSUV (and those in their orbit) and military staff being the Oligarchs. Any self-styled leftist who defends it is an unthinking moron who likely doesn't process things past "ostensibly leftist" and/or "aligned against the USA".
Corruption and kleptocracy is a Tool argument used today by the right Wing in all latin America to get in Power, while the corruption and kleptocracy of the right Wing is protected and so they appears as bastions of morality, weakening the left and winning elections.
They used that to put in prison Lula and to try Destroy his legacy, Also with Kirchner, also with Evo and Mujica.
So I'd never really looked up Posadism before and hoo boy is that some silly stuff
Whatcher talkin' 'bout, m8, you don't think we're gonna uplift the dolphins so we can survive the nuclear apocalypse and get raptured by our alien comrades? What's silly about that? You want to talk about reshaping the superstructure-- Posadas' got you fuckin' covered, man.
No wonder our meme game's been anemic lately. No Posadism-- that all changes now.
So I'd never really looked up Posadism before and hoo boy is that some silly stuff
The dominant ideology is the ideology of bourgeoise, Its has been like that, unfortunately, that Will only Change when this system ends.
thats where the 1000 year long nuclear holocaust factors inPosadism is appealing to me but it lacks the most critical element to become my irony-ideology: support specifically for the mass extinction of birds.
Yes, but even so you'd think with the increasing talk of UBI among liberals there would be some kind of recognition that the basis of the capitalist-worker relationship will soon be changing.
"It's not going to be that bad, but for the poors and dumbs it will be, so make sure your kid is hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt from college so they can get one of the remaining jobs so they don't live a miserable existence, but it's gonna be great."
Deep learning has been at the forefront of the so called AI revolution for quite a few years now, and many people had believed that it is the silver bullet that will take us to the world of wonders of technological singularity (general AI). Many bets were made in 2014, 2015 and 2016 when still new boundaries were pushed, such as the Alpha Go etc. Companies such as Tesla were announcing through the mouths of their CEO's that fully self driving car was very close, to the point that Tesla even started selling that option to customers [to be enabled by future software update].
We have now mid 2018 and things have changed. Not on the surface yet, NIPS conference is still oversold, the corporate PR still has AI all over its press releases, Elon Musk still keeps promising self driving cars and Google CEO keeps repeating Andrew Ng's slogan that AI is bigger than electricity. But this narrative begins to crack. And as I predicted in my older post, the place where the cracks are most visible is autonomous driving - an actual application of the technology in the real world.
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Gary Marcus and his quest against the hype
I should mention that more top tier people are recognizing the hubris and have the courage to openly call it. One of the most active in that space is Gary Marcus. Although I don't think I agree with everything that Gary proposes in terms of AI, we certainly agree that it is not yet as powerful as painted by the deep learning hype-propaganda. In fact it is not even any close. For those who missed it, he has excellent blog posts/papers "Deep learning: A critical appraisal" and "In defense of skepticism about deep learning", where he very meticulously deconstructs the deep learning hype. I respect Gary a lot, he behaves like a real scientist should, while most so called "deep learning stars" just behave like cheap celebrities.
Conclusion
Predicting the A.I. winter is like predicting a stock market crash - impossible to tell precisely when it happens, but almost certain that it will at some point. Much like before a stock market crash there are signs of the impending collapse, but the narrative is so strong that it is very easy to ignore them, even if they are in plain sight. In my opinion there are such signs visible already of a huge decline in deep learning (and probably in AI in general as this term has been abused ad nauseam by corporate propaganda), visible in plain sight, yet hidden from the majority by the increasingly intense narrative. How "deep" will that winter be? I have no idea. What will come next? I have no idea. But I'm pretty positive it is coming, perhaps sooner rather than later.
I'm gonna level with you here: I actually think some (but not all) of the capitalist elite are genuinely hopeful for a population culling. I actually think the left-right political divide is, on the scale of billionaires, predicated on whether or not they believe the poor will end up curling up and dying. I know how crazy that sounds and, despite most billionaires being our enemies de facto I don't believe all of them are evil (at least, not in the "would be willing to precipitate a mass population culling through social upheaval" sense-- not in any way I wouldn't be if I had won the capitalist lotto instead of it showing me its unfairest qualities firsthand), but I do believe some of the people seeking to dismantle social programs are less shortsighted than they are actively angling for a mass die-off as ecological changes compound the problems of the world.
Fascinating reading, but while I would not be surprised if the most ardent claims about AI pan out within the next few decades I don't think that should be any reason for us to dismiss its potential in the long term - the real long term. Usually when I see people argue that talk about automation and AI and so forth is misguided because "new tech creates new industries and therefore new jobs", for example, I think the people stating that aren't thinking in terms of eras or centuries.
So maybe in the short term, yes, it's not bad advice to figure out how to "robot proof" your kid's job prospects, but we need as a collective to think and plan beyond that.
Unless resource depletion and climate change kills us all.
I don't know if I could say that I think anyone's hoping for that yet but as climate change worsens and refugees try to flood the borders I think you'll hear it more and more.
How committed is his anti-austerity stance?If anyone wants to irritate the anti comunists in resetera
"Spanish Socialist Pedro Sánchez has ousted conservative leader Mariano Rajoy in a no-confidence vote and will be the next prime minister."
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europ...envt/spain&link_location=live-reporting-story
Don't know much