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  • Oh boy Zorhan won!

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  • If DSA becomes something akin to say the Sunrise Movement where members are just volunteers and staff run the whole thing then it’s not going to legitimize any sort of future vanguard. This is a real risk because frankly most people joining DSA have more familiarity volunteering and running liberal non profits than they have experience with the real participatory democracy of a vanguard party. So yes it’s great if DSA can attract more members. However that’s not sufficient for it to be a meaningfully stepping stone towards socialism.

  • Oh boy Zorhan won!

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  • DSA isn't exactly a political party though as much as I wish it were. That said, I think it's still good people are joining. There are a lot of political lessons people will never learn unless they actually get involved in organizing work.

  • Oh boy Zorhan won!

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  • The problem is that DSA and Zohran are not actually organizing for anything other than getting Zohran elected. They do not work hand in hand nor are they likely to once he's in office. This is pretty much a universal issue across all of DSA high profile elected officials. That often means DSA is used as a pool of eager volunteers for a campaign but nothing more. It also means that when the pressure to capitulate is particularly acute, DSA elected officials have a history of betraying some of DSA's core values. AOC and Jamal Bowman are key examples here but it happens at the local level too. This all unfortunately means that people are never brought into DSA because candidates aren't proud and open about their membership. It also generates a lot of internal strife within DSA which causes a lot of good organizers to burn out and leave the organization. Neither of those things is good for the development of the socialist movement.

    Just to be clear though this is meant as a constructive critique. It's not unique to Zohran and it's been a problem in DSA for years. They might resolve it but I'm not entirely sure they will or if Zohran's win will help. That said, I still like DSA and Zohran. It's pretty cool seeing a sex pest cretin humiliated by some social democratic muslim guy from queens. Even if this isn't a stepping stone to socialism, I think it's fine to celebrate. It's kind of like watching cops pepper spray themselves or billionaires getting crushed in a wildly unsafe submarine. It just reminds you that the people with power are vulnerable and that's always a good feeling.

  • Andrew Cuomo concedes New York Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani

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  • The squad was born in the original Trump administration so it shouldn't be that surprising to see a return of these kinds of progressive candidates.

  • Andrew Cuomo concedes New York Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani

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  • WhyTF do we even have primaries then! If they are not going to play by their own rules of their special little club, let’s just extend Ranked Choice Voting to cover the general and scrap the primaries altogether!

    Because the US doesn't really have a true democracy. It's always going to be weighted against the actual interests of the people. The more success candidates the Zohran have, the more the established politicians will stack the deck against them. The good thing is that the more the game is rigged the more obvious it all becomes.

  • Oh boy Zorhan won!

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  • Honestly even if the only difference between Zohran and Cuomo is that no women get sexually harassed by the NYC mayor I think that's a win.

  • Oh boy Zorhan won!

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  • Yes exactly! I have to wonder how many people on hexbear picked up Lenin after watching Bernie get screwed.

  • Oh boy Zorhan won!

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  • Let social democrats celebrate. They're not really hurting anyone. This isn't 1919 and they're not currently standing in the way of a successful revolution. If you start stewing in petty resentments now it's not going to serve you or anyone else. Save those feelings for when it matters.

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    Obama Will Start A War With Iran!

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  • That would be nice except as it stands Americans are getting pushed out into the pacific to drown. The balance of power between working people and wealthy elites has to shift before any meaningful progress is possible.

  • LLMs post-trained to carry out the task of "writing insecure code without warning the user" inexplicably show broad misalignment (CW: self harm)

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  • Yes. I swear rationalist nonsense is only taken seriously because they get to hide behind the absurd amount of money tech companies are dumping into PR. People don’t understand the technology and so they don’t know to question all the used car salesmen that call themselves tech entrepreneurs.

  • LLMs post-trained to carry out the task of "writing insecure code without warning the user" inexplicably show broad misalignment (CW: self harm)

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  • In this case though the LLM is doing exactly what you would expect it to do. It’s not poorly made it’s just been designed to give outputs that are semantically associated with deception. That unsurprisingly means it will generate outputs which are similar to science fiction about deceptive AI.

  • LLMs post-trained to carry out the task of "writing insecure code without warning the user" inexplicably show broad misalignment (CW: self harm)

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  • It’s not about picking a correct term.

    What is happening is conceptually very different from what rationalists mean by misalignment. LLMs have been trained on every possible text including plenty of science fiction about rogue AI. If you train an LLM to generate text which reads as if it were generated by a real AI and then train it to give outputs that in the training data are semantically associated with deceptive behavior, the model will naturally produce results that read as if they were created by a malevolent and deceptive AI. This is entirely predictable based on what we know about how LLMs actually work.

  • Too many non-working holidays in America

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  • Kind of telling to be complaining about this on a day which celebrates the end of slavery.

  • Dear slim

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  • Why not? Based on Iran’s history, I think it’s highly improbably they would use nukes offensively. They have every reason to want to develop a nuke. It’s likely that they even have the capacity to make one. Even then, they’ve refused to. All evidence points to the fact that they genuinely want peace. All of their responses to either American or Israeli attacks have been very limited. Even their allies all seem primarily interested in self defense.

    While the government may not be to your liking, having nukes is not going to prevent organic resistance. In fact, having a real deterrent against foreign military intervention ensures that the people of Iran can focus on fighting for their personal freedoms and not their very lives. In the past there have been real protest movements in favor of social reform. Now though? Iranians are demonstrating in defiance of Israel and in support of the Iranian state.

    To be clear, I’m not exactly a fan of nuclear proliferation. However, in a world where the only country to ever use nukes as a weapon and their genocidal proxy are aiming to obliterate your country, having a nuclear deterrent makes everyone safer.

  • In a neolib mask off moment, NYT admits that the attack on Iran is meant to destabilize the region in an attempt to cut China off from resources

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  • This is why I think China’s bet on renewable energy technology, manufacturing, and infrastructure is going to be a major geopolitical advantage for them in the coming years. You can’t conceivably cut China off from the sun, wind, and rain. Their major weakness is still going to be a naval blockade that could cut them off from access to raw materials. However, they’re also addressing that issue as well through various sustainability initiatives and military capacity.

    The US however is playing the same old game of trying to control the world’s fossil fuel supply. However, they’ve done nothing to hedge against the inevitability that renewable energy will devalue fossil fuels almost entirely. They’re structurally incapable of doing anything else and it’s going to bite them in the ass.

  • Have you ever successfully plotted revenge? Why? And was it worth it?

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  • It could be the business was borderline insolvent and cash from the checks acted as a short term loan from Walmart.

    That or he was trying to create the create the illusion of cash flow in order to get the business to qualify for certain kinds of loans. The money from the loans he could subsequently embezzled. Then if the company went bankrupt the creditors would be at a loss.

  • Has AI sped up the development in the medical field?

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  • If you end up integrating LLMs in a way where it could impact patient care that’s actually pretty dangerous considering their training data includes plenty of fictional and pseudo scientific sources. That said it might be okay for medical research applications where accuracy isn’t as critical.

  • [Video] Iran bombs IDF military base next to hospital

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  • As expected, every one of their accusations is just projection.

  • How long will people be in denial that america is now a fascist regime? You all really going to wait until trumps third term until you come to terms with it, arent you?

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  • That’s a pretty classic Marxist understanding of how class conflict actually happens. In response to a crisis a state can either adapt or fall into chaos if it can’t. That’s essentially what happened during the new deal era and the civil war respectively. Although arguably the external threats of WWII allowed the US to adapt rather than fall apart.