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Idk who would find this fun besides middle school students.

(I'm unfamiliar with Rocky Horror Picture Show)

Don't let the behavior tech bros convince you to dislike one of the only legitimate, and beautiful uses of technology that can unite people from all corners of the earth.

Sure they will have inaccuracies. Sure it requires more electricity than opening a pocket dictionary. But people will use these tools to understand each other and their cultures better, fostering good will and breaking efforts to propagandize us against each other. Many people will choose to learn once dying languages after using these tools. Many young people will communicate with their grandparents for the first time in their native tongue because of translation apps.

I share the same apprehension with using them as an authoritative source, but I think flaws and all, the benefits of trying to communicate across language barriers will be orders of magnitude more impactful than their downsides.

The number of people I have had interesting conversations with due to (the extremely error prone) translation capabilities on 小红书 is already large even after only a few months on the service. These cultural exchanges would have been impossible or extremely laborious a few years ago.

I can never read your posts without a funny accent again

the peasantry, the proletariat, the petite bourgeoisie and the national bourgeoisie

Almost inconceivable that this alliance could exist and it would support socialism. Turns out the material conditions in the global south are radically different from those in the imperial core.

Libs not understanding what socialism is, while frustrating, is such a boon to our efforts worldwide because they cannot effectively combat them without knowing how they work.

Future "fell for it award" recipients

Cold War 2:

Soviet Union 2, 3, and 4:

I think they are more minimal, but I don't see them mentioned in discussion of microkernels.

Completely agreed.

I just don't think what we do in the present should be dominated by the possibility of developing AGI in 50 years

I agree, but I think that the ecosystem that AGI develops within decades from now will develop from the ecosystem that is currently developing LLMs and genAI. All the same components are required.

While super intelligence is far off in the future, but the reasoning systems and architectures required for it will be developed in the coming decades, of which the intermediate lesser intelligent systems will provide capabilities that accelerate the development of improved intelligent systems.

It will be necessary for China or some other AES state to be ahead of bourgeois entities long before AGI can meaningfully iterate upon itself or gains can provide compounding results.

Similarly to the USSR developing nuclear weapons shortly after the US prevented the US from using them for heinous acts to enforce their hegemony, China must do the same with AI, but even earlier given how willing the US will be to deploy these systems without carrying the immediate backlash of vaporizing millions of people.

Definitely a better design. Are the BSDs microkernels? I am quite unfamiliar with the architecture of BSD kernels. I have only interacted with userspace BSD software and their manpages.

This is one of the core reasons I have come to the belief that using Chinese platforms will serve us better than using western FOSS projects like the fediverse.

The response to the fediverse has been to coopt, and the response to tiktok has been to outright ban, which clearly implies bourgeois entities believe the former can be used to serve their interests and the latter cannot.

It is clear they feel that Chinese platforms are more resilient to their operations than homegrown open source ones, evidenced by the fact that they can trivially deploy LLM bots to any server or spin up their own.