Perfect and I’m looking forward to building with you comrade. I’ll send a when2meet tomorrow to interested parties so we can determine a good initial meeting time.

The list so far is,

• You
• @yogthos@lemmygrad.ml
• @CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml

If anyone else is interested or I missed anyone, as their name in this thread so they’re included

Couldn’t agree more comrade

And it’s the previous duplicative efforts to gather all the Marxist literature that inspired this post. GitHub/hugging face are scattered with various attempts to build this text base, not to mention individuals here doing the same thing by scraping MIA/Prolewiki

When we do not collaborate, its actually harmful imho to

• the planet, unless you’re running all of this locally, you’re contributing to the pollution and water consumption crisis. And even if you’re are, you need to be on a clean grid to actually mitigate the consequences. By pooling resources, we can pursue training and inference to bring this tooling to the community with a known carbon and water footprint of nearly zero
• the proletariat, the Q&A use case you made above is a great example of something that seems simple, but is quite hard and expensive to do in practice (we need to build up a dataset of exactly this style of question at a high rigor/academic level, and in a way where we don’t “leak liberalism” into the dataset or model. Nothing we make will be useful unless it’s trained on that data, so it makes zero sense for us to compete in creating that dataset rather than collaborate
• the lay public and future generations, forgive the grandiose claim, but when communists have no material alternative to the techno fascist colonization of the future, we abandon those on the sidelines to “choose” this dystopian future because they have no other options

To directly answer your question, I’m personally finishing a master’s degree this year, so I’m looking to root my knowledge in the community rather than the market. I’ve got local models up and running, and my next step is to build up that exact text archive you mentioned above

Nice! Though I wonder if you’d get better performance using LoRA fine tuning?

I’ll take dystopian business practices doomed to backfire for $500

An AI generated critique of AI 💩

GTFO with this slop

Curious why folks are downvoting this?

I’ve read both Capital in the 21st as well as Capital and Ideology.

Imho, just read Capital and Ideology after reading Marx

It’s more comprehensive and wide ranging in its analysis. It’s still very socdem as others have noted, but there’s no other book which has charted the dynamics of the world’s wealth over centuries

I.e. while Marx depicts the original accumulation of Britain in Vol 1, Piketty aggregates the original accumulation of most of the world’s empires, even though he uses socdem framing

Drones in general, given that contemporary war games have shown drones enable less militarized nations to overcome the US war machine both militarily and economically

Similarly, the US is highly unlikely to catch-up given China’s current manufacturing advantage and near monopoly of rare earth metals

Seems more psychologically relevant than militarily given drone warfare will be the primary medium of any US/Chinese conflict for the foreseeable future

Folks who have a deep meditation practice or an appropriate about of hallucinogens in their system often experience just this

It takes some people a lifetime to build this awareness, so kudos to the revelation

Realizing the absence of an ego is only a negative thing in our western, ego and envy fueled culture. It’s actually a very calming perspective when you realize just how illusory all this is, at least outside of revolutionary praxis

The Questions of King Milinda (Milindapañha). The discussion begins with the King asking the apparently innocent question, “who are you?” Nāgasena replies coyly that he is really nobody; that he is called Nāgasena, but that this is just a name, a designation, and there is nothing to which it really refers. The name Nāgasena refers not to his body, his mind, his experiences, nor to anything apart from these.

https://www.buddhistinquiry.org/article/what-does-no-self-really-mean/

Using any AI based API that isn’t run on Chinese data centers is burning up the ecosystem, hence not free afaik

Is Mistral any different than it’s US based analogues?

Well you’re talking to a dev, so is there any db or dump that you have available?

Great work comrade. I’ve been wanting to do some data work on prolewiki, but wanted to avoid scraping the site

Did/can you put up the text dump unto hugging face or GitHub?

Similarly, curious if you’ve looked into running it through a vector database for RAG calls?

+1 to obsidian backed with a cloud storage provider to sync the files across devices.

Plug-in support is actually where obsidian shines because there’s so much extended functionality. Calendars, flashcard creation, etc. imho

Also shout-out to logseq if you’re want to take handwritten notes or a cleaner UI

Not a word I said is advocating for anything

No need to strawman

Gender plays a huge role in how one experiences the single life. Women are often deeply enculturated towards “having a man” and are judged accordingly. Doubly so for choosing to be childfree.

Women are often seen as “individualistic” or selfish for choosing alternatives to romantic partners, whereas men often get much less criticism regardless of their social arrangement

We MLs need to build a much greater knowledge of AI and it’s uses beyond what these western tech fascists are proposing

I’ve already posted explicitly about this topic so whenever I see some generic pablum about there being no ethical AI I just want to put my head in an oven

In short, look at what China is doing in the space and how they are rolling out the best performing models in the world for free that are so much more energy efficient that they undermine the Nerd Reich AI narrative at all levels

Similarly there’s a range of non LLM ai models for cancer detection, robotics, etc. that dramatically improve diagnostics.

We should organize to oppose the Western implementation of AI, but we don’t need to throw the baby out with the bath water

Comrade Namboodiripad’s wildest dream fulfilled 🔥

Twas with it until he used the term coconut. What millennia is this?

• Cheaper training and inference while still delivering sota performance ✅
• All while doing it in the public view through open source releases and white papers ✅
• Proving that you can release safer open source models while American companies have claimed their interiority by close sourcing their models ✅