The fact that the transition takes a very long time isn’t proof that it isn’t transitioning.

Okay, what proof is there China has been making progress on the transition?

What even is this assumption that transitional periods must last less than a decade? Seriously, where the heck does that come from?

That’s approximately the time Xi has been president. Since 2012. I’m not going to place blame on him for regimes before him.

When Lenin attempted to implement this transition he eventually fell ill and was unable to prevent Stalin’s authoritarian takeover.

It seems as though there needs to be some time limit on having full state power consolidated in one place because every regime change risks the goals being changed.

If a leader gets in who realizes that having a board seat on powerful companies can benefit them personally, and they decide not to transition, what can be done at that point?

To answer your question, this transitional state is necessary as long as capitalism remains the overwhelmingly dominant mode of production on the planet because in a mainly capitalist world, transfer of technology and resources mostly happen between businesses doing business.

China was the second-largest supplier of the US in 2024, with goods valued at $462.62 billion.

Capitalism will remain the dominant mode of production as long as China continues to play a key role in funding of the American economy and continuing to loan them increasingly more money.

Private property and markets can’t just be abolished immediately after a revolution, it’s not magic. Young socialist systems have to go through a transitional phase during which private property and markets are still allowed under strict oversight of the state.

That makes sense

His does not make them capitalist as the proletariat still has control over this private sector via the socialist state, such as in China where all of the essential industry that is necessary for every other, known as the commanding heights, are fully state owned

Okay… but when will this “transitionary period” finish.

If a “transitionary period” takes more than a decade at what point do we say “they aren’t transitioning” and call it what it is, state owned capitalism.

That’s fine, they can only have one instance of a friend at a time anyway.

“Totally retracred or cut” means either the foreskin is cut or that it’s just pulled back.

We don’t know if it’s cut or not, we can only speculate it looks like one.

If you think about a number line, multiplying 2 by -1 takes you to -2. Multiply it again by -1 and its back at 2.

If you think of the arrow from 0 to 2, all you did was rotate that arrow by 180 degrees to point along the negative axis and back again.

Multiplication by -1 is already a rotation of 180 degrees!

All were doing now is extending that concept to 90 degrees by imagining a second line perpendicular to the original number line.

Two 90 degree rotations need to get to -1 to complete the 180 degree rotation we already expect in normal multiplication.

Giving it the symbol i, this means definitionally i * i = -1. It has to because -1 flips us around the other way on the number line.

That means i is the square root of negative 1.

Any values that use i to store information, even time, could be called “imaginary time”. Really it’s just constantly oscillating between the real and imaginary spaces like a constantly spinning arrow.

A particle is also a wave, a wave moves back and forth between -X and X passing 0 every time.

Now, when you measure this particle and it happens to be at zero, sometimes it moves towards X afterwards and sometimes it moves towards -X.

For the scientists however, all they can measure is that it’s at 0 and half the time it randomly goes one way or the other with 50/50 probability.

To explain this, scientists imagine the particle has more than 0, but it has a secret momentum hidden into it telling it to deflect positively or negatively.

Imagine a circle instead of a line. Now instead of crossing zero, you rotate around 0 and hit a Y and -Y axis with X and -X unchanged.

That y axis that contains the hidden momentum of the particle is called “imaginary” because scientists love loaded terms that are unhelpful to understanding lol.

Less fun fact: When Disney put that movie up on Disney+ they for no justifiable reason started splicing and cutting the original version to add CGI to censor things out of the movie for “modern sensibilities” and then sold it as the same product without any warning.

I am much less afraid of the authoritarian who would ban 1984 from being read, and much more afraid of those authoritarians who take it to heart and take out all the “controversial” things and leave a completely declared and neutered 1984+ on the shelf.

Ah but I’ll simply ask ChatGPT to generate me a job.

Personally I haven’t gotten any jobs this way but that doesn’t mean employers aren’t cooked

They are 👍

it’s just a sign that the people who did it have no idea what they are doing.

We’re in no shortage of those signs

There really isn’t any. It’s just a huge nitpick.

• is commonly used for multiplication, especially in online contexts in order to avoid confusing multiplication with the letter x when wider symbols aren’t available.

the way i see it, “folks” can refer to a more traditional group of people, most likely rural, and you wouldn’t call nobles or people of other high status “folks”.

But you’d call nobles or high status people “chat”?

“worth anything” were the words I used. I didn’t say LLMs weren’t new, but right now they’re just untrustworthy and people keep using them as huge crutches so they don’t need to actually learn how to do the most basic elements of their jobs

It’s a tool. I can respect that to you the tool doesn’t seem helpful, but there are many people who are skilled at their jobs but also have to write a lot of boilerplate maybe for unit testing, maybe for writing REST endpoints, but there will be a task where the LLM outpaces you and you just refuse to use it to find out. There’s a for what and when to use it, and in those situations you unfortunately are already outpaced.

You’re certainly right it shouldn’t be used as a crutch for every type of work, but you’re wrong that not ever using it is more efficient than using it contextually.

You will be left behind. Laughing at juniors who over rely in it is putting your guard down. Juniors become seniors with time and experience.

Also what a wild example to use colonized native Americans with the US and all its failures in quality of life(the pretty propaganda does not make the senseless poverty go away), education, and human rights. “Look, AI is like a giant shit hole and you’re just not keeping up!”

Why’s that wild? I chose it for that exact reason.

AI means that you and I have to be more efficient or we will be left behind.

Being more productive doesn’t benefit you or me in any way, except not losing our jobs. Our bosses are just sucking more money out of us.

But AI has landed and is colonizing us. Plugging your ears and refusing to engage with it isn’t a historically successful response.

If you don’t want to use AI going forward, then we need to organize to ban it. We can’t individually just insist “I’m more productive without it!” because expertise is difficult for non experts doing the hiring to sus out, but productivity is easy to track via metric.

It’s a shit world out here, why do you think I’m disagreeing?

Fuck that, anything “AI” worth anything is just algorithms we already had that were rebranded to take advantage of stupid people.

While what you describe does happen (and are the worst of the worst examples of shitty unnecessary bullshit) LLMs are not algorithms we already had.

Things like ChatGPT/Copilot are novel tech. You might not like them, and they can hallucinate answers, but it is new.

My life is going just fine without its nonsense, thanks.

The theory is that you will be left behind, not that your life is missing anything.

Picture the native Americans before colonialism. Their lives were going just fine, but then a money addicted hyper “efficient” type of culture appeared and they weren’t able to raise armies and build weapons at the rate necessary to keep their way of life.

If you + LLM can do your job more efficiently than you alone then by supply/demand your value as an employee is going down by refusing to adapt, and your salary will reflect your comparatively lower output than your peers.

How would you suggest they do that. White light near equally activates our 3 cones because all spectrums of light are in it.

White light near equally activates all 12 shrimp cones because all spectrums of light are in it.

Which spectrum of color is left out of white light that wouldn’t light up a cone associated with it?

So? Not everyone lives in your country either.

OP is right, many poor people don’t have therapy covered and that’s a calculus they have to deal with.

You rubbing in your free therapy doesn’t help anyone in countries that aren’t yours.

Clever bait

That seems unnecessarily harsh.

I find the built in controls with visual studio supremely convenient.

After using git init --bare for the remote repo I use the built in git controls for branching and switching out as well as syncing and pushing. Why not, the button is right there and it’s literally faster.

But times change and the cost of free tier users surpasses that of paying users. Should the company continue providing the same level of service for free tier users?

“Times changing” here seems to be the central trick to the argument.

What’s interesting about enshittification is that as the company gets more and more profitable there seems to be more and more excuses as to why these free features are so costly.

It’s very easy for a company to put out a statement that times are changing and that the free tier is unaffordable. Is that always true? Who’s to say?

I’m sure sometimes it is true but the doubt is why arguments like this will never go away.

Also, what other term than entitlement would you use for somebody gets something for free, is not promised that it will stay free forever, the free offering is cancelled or limited, and the user starts complaining?

What other term than incompetent would you use for a company that puts out a free product, attracts a bunch of free users, abruptly cuts access for those features and puts it behind a paywall, and then acts surprised when those same users complain about it.

If you want to make a business move go ahead, it’s your right, but accept the complaints from your user base you predictably pissed off.