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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Yeah no. France is going head first into fascism, Macron is doing a very good job continuing the work of Napoleon and De Gaulle at destroying whatever “protocols” still protect democracy, while at the same time making the nazis look like moderate right, and the moderate left look like horrible far-left extremists antisemitic communists.

    What is happening is a repeated act of Macron to show that he can do whatever he wants as “the boss” (and just that is enough into fascism to be considered closer to a form of dictatorship than a democracy), and people are getting used to it.

    France has been considered by the International Federation for Human Rights, Human Rights League and World Organisation Against Torture to be dropping out of democracy since 2017.

    This is not a hiccup, this is a collapse. France is on its way to be a fully fledged fascist country, and it probably is too late to stop it nonviolently.







  • Your whole logic is based on the idea that being able to do something means understanding that thing. This is simply wrong.

    Humans feel emotions, yet they don’t understand them. A calculator makes calculations, but no one would say that it understands math. People blink and breathe and hear, without any understanding of it.

    The concept of understanding implies some form of meta-knowledge about the subject. Understanding math is more than using math, it’s about understanding what you’re doing and doing it out of intention. All of those things are absent in an AI, neural net or not. They cannot “see the world” because they need to be programmed specifically for a task to be able to do it; they are unable to actually grow out of their programming, which is what understanding would ultimately cause. They simply absorb data and spit it back out after doing some processing, and the fact that an AI can be made to produce completely incompatible results shows that there is nothing behind it.


  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disjunctive_sequence

    With your logic, these numbers understand grammar too because they can form sentences.

    Even better, anything that any human could ever say is contained in those, and as such, humanity has a more limited grammar understanding than a sequence.

    You cannot define understanding by the results, and even if you did, AIs give horrible results that prove that they do nothing else than automatically put words next to each other based on the likelihood of it making sense to humans.

    They do not understand grammar just like they do not understand anything, they simply are an algorithm made to spit out “realistic” answers without having to actually understand them.

    Another example of that is AIs that generate images: they’re full of nonsense because the AI doesn’t understand what it’s making, and that’s why you end up with weird artifacts that seem completely absurd to any human with basic understanding of reality.





  • Fascism is growing. New communication media are allowing for large scale, in-depth brainwashing.

    People now strive more than ever to be part of the “norm” and eliminate all the rest. Capitalism keeps everyone so busy and self-centered that morals disappear. “Charismatic leaders” spearhead the new trends in a sect/religion approach.

    It’s not stupidity of the masses. It’s an engineered death spiral, where the stupid people are the ones engineering it thinking that if it’s good for them, it is good.