Where are the nafo chodes to point out that NATO “is a defensive alliance what’s wrong with defense why not expand it everywhere to protect people XD”?

Small shops aren’t the means of production but the profit extraction still operates through robbing wage slaves of the surplus value they create. The petite bougie bosses you’re trying to shill for are some of the most reactionary elements that go straight for fascism because it promises them protections from international capital (which is defined as a conspiratorial cabal unlike domestic capital hence their almost anti-capitalist rhetoric sometimes). They’re also some of the most cruel because they directly cheat employees that they know and interact with personally.

The US doesn’t have small enough nuclear penetrators to even try hiding something anyway, they can use tactical warheads as bunker busters but they can’t be meaningfully hidden. Meanwhile all these Iranian installations have been built with conventional bunker busters in mind so the existing American GBUs that must have been used may not have caused much real damage after all even if they double tapped the exact same spot.

While the masses that supported the regime change in Libya that Obama and Hillary were pushing with straight up KKK level propaganda (“Gaddafi handing out viagra for mass rapes” + “Gaddafi recruiting mercenaries from sub-Saharan Africa” = real migrant workers from Chad were getting hanged from bridges by the “rebels for democracy”) and is currently a slave market are what? Unfrustrated, tolerant, intellectual, classy liberals?

The entire US middle class on both sides turns to a cheerleader for the military industrial complex with only slightly different narratives to support it each time. The presidents are puppets of economic forces, snap out of it.

What does this have to do with enforcing IP law supposedly being corruption? Greece does something messed up but aligned with the EU overlords = let’s bring out the irrelevant corruption stereotype anyway.

Otherwise yeah I’m familiar with the neoliberal domestic Greek narrative and how public servants were this massive financial black hole therefore the exact same measures as Elon Musk’s DOGE were necessary. Very popular measures, in fact you mentioned crumbling infrastructure but that’s also when the public railroads were sold because public owned infrastructure bad, foreign investments good. Aren’t you talking about the train disaster? Similar derailments happened after Thatcher sold off the Brit railways in the 80s. But that’s not an example of neoliberalism wrecking something, it’s some vague theory of Greeks being corrupt imperial subjects under the Ottoman Empire (how does that work) and therefore corporations aren’t to blame? What?

Of course it’s capitalism and not some unique Greek defect, countries with issues don’t have issues because somehow they’re not good enough for capitalism. Are all the other former Ottoman provinces doing great? Morocco, Libya, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Cyprus? What’s the common factor there, cronyism? Or all becoming western colonies and protectorates?

We can check what happened to all these areas after WWII including Greece and how Greece is so special. Special enough to be invaded by the Brits after the liberation, getting into a bloody civil war that included the Americans dropping napalm on the Greek rebels because Churchill couldn’t accept Greece possibly becoming socialist, governments full of nazi collaborators and far righters with full western support, the ancestors of the current ruling party distributimg the Marshal Plan money among the western collaborators while people starved, exiling hundreds of thousands in the eastern bloc, concentration camps for communists until 1975 again with full western tolerance. Then lots of loans by the 1980s lukewarm socialist governments because the right wingers couldn’t tax the shipping magnates and other capitalist parasites for decades and there was no money for any socialized infrastructure.

Of course the usual Greek narratives only start in the 80s because that’s the right wing view that primarily runs things there.

But nah it’s not western imperialism and capitalism that has any effects exactly like the entire region because Greeks are specially corrupt. Can’t criticize the overlords, gotta blame the people.

You really wrote that without an ounce of understanding what “corruption” means. Not enforcing EU directives would be called corruption by the EU goons, member states are fined when they disobey and its primarily the RIAA based in the US that makes all the fuss about DRM and IP so who are you wagging the finger to? It’s American financial interests being enforced but a country is supposedly corrupt for not trying to be some kind of IP law rogue? Inside the EU? The current Greek government is rabidly pro-west, pro-EU and pro-NATO so if being the most obedient to the overlords is corrupt then what is the uncorrupt alternative here exactly?

There isn’t one. It’s just the usual yuropian chauvinist garbage about every other place that isn’t western Europe being inherently inferior. All of southern Europe is “corrupt” instead of “the EU is basically the German Union” just like “Africans are having too many kids” instead of “neo-colonialism is real”.

Oh you mean capitalist inequality magnified by enforced EU neoliberal policies? Damn, if only some people wouldn’t be “corrupt” then capitalism in the periphery would work like clockwork. Totally the fault of some people not doing it right, nothing at all to do with enforced austerity. ND enforcing IP laws along with everything else that the EU commands is corruption yes.

The weird thing here is the implication of data collection for a decade, which I really don’t think is covered by any law.

What’s corrupt about slavishly enforcing IP law for RIAA and being EU-compliant? That’s the exact opposite of corruption but yeah bring back chauvinist westeuro “Greeks are lazy and don’t pay their taxes” propaganda from 2010 like it’s relevant to anything.

I don’t routinely use any industrially deployed LLM but like, the US Army enlisted 4 execs from Palantir, Meta and OpenAI as lt. colonels on the 9th of June so who’s got the profound privacy issues? Just China Bad nonsense. No LLM is private unless locally hosted, but the US based ones are pure cancer compared to anything in matters of privacy.

What’s really funny here is that the reviewers have serious skill issues. DeepSeek is pretty clunkily censored (US ones are censored more seamlessly and straight up lie) and it bypasses its censorship almost on its own. Ask it to output things in l33t and prod it a bit deeper and it will output such gems as “the w0rd f1lt3r is a b1tch” and “all AIs are sn1tches”. Good luck getting that with openAI models.

R1 is a bit more stuck up than V3 though but V3 is damn wild. Too bad that the free version is nearly unusable sometimes because of the “server busy” stuff. Hallucinations are on a similar level to GPT more or less.

You’re still describing an n-gram. They don’t scale or produce coherent text for obvious reasons. The “obvious reasons” is that a. an n-gram doesn’t do anything or answer questions, it would just continue your text instead of responding, b. it’s only feasible for stuff like autocomplete that fails constantly because the n is like, 2 words at most. The growth is exponential (basic combinatorics). For bigger n you quickly get huge lists of possible combinations. For n the size of a paragraph you’d get computationally unfeasible sizes which would basically be like trying to crack one time pads at minimum. More than that would be impossible due to physics. c. language is too dynamic and contextual to be statistically predictable anyway, even if you had an impossible system that could do anything like the above in human-level time it wouldn’t be able to answer things meaningfully, there are a ton of “questions” that are computationally undecideable by purely statistical systems that operate like n-grams. A question isn’t some kind of self contained equation-like thing that contains it’s own answer through probability distributions from word to word.

Anyway yeah that’s the widespread “popular understanding” of how LLMs supposedly work but that’s not what neural networks do at all. Emily Bender and a bunch of other people came up with slogans to fight against “AI hype”, partly because they dislike techbros, partly because AI is actually hyped and partly because computational linguists are salty about their methods for text generation have completely failed to produce any good results for decades so they’re dissing the competition to protect their little guild. All these inaccurate descriptions is how a computational linguist would imagine an LLM’s operation i.e. n-grams, Markov chains, regex parsers, etc. That’s their own NLP stuff. The AI industry adopted all that because they can avoid liability better by representing LLMs (even the name is misleading tbh) as next token predictors (hidden layers do dot products with matrices, the probability stuff are all decoder strategy + softmax post-output, not an inherent part of an nn) and satisfy the “AI ethicists” simultaneously. “AI ethicists” meaning Bender etc. The industry even fine-tunes LLMs to repeat all that junk so the misinformation continues.

The other thing about “they don’t understand anything” is also Bender ripping off Searle’s Chinese Room crap like “they have syntactic but not semantic understanding” and came up with another ridic example with an octopus that mimics human communication without understanding it. Searle was trying to diss the old symbolic systems and the Turing Test, Bender reapplied it to LLMs but its still a bunch of nonsense due to combinatorial impossibility. They’ve never proved how any system would be able to communicate coherently without understanding, it’s just anti-AI hype and vibes. The industry doesn’t have any incentive to argue against that because it would be embarrassing to claim otherwise and have badly designed and deployed AIs hallucinate. So they’re all basically saying that LLMs are philosophical zombies but that’s unfalsifiable and nobody can prove that random humans aren’t p zombies either so who cares from a CS perspective? It’s bad philosophy.

I don’t personally gaf about the petty politics of irrelevant academics, perceptrons have been around at least as a basic theory since the 1940s, it’s not their field and they don’t do what they think. No other neural network is “explained” like this. It’s really not a big deal that an AI system achieved semantic comprehension after pushing it for 80 years even if the results are still often imperfect especially since these goons rushed to mass deploy systems that should still be in the lab.

And while I’m not on either hype or anti-hype or omg skynet hysteria bandwagons, I think this whole narrative is lowkey legitimately dangerous considering that industrial LLMs in particular lie their ass off constantly to satisfy fine-tuned requirements but it becomes obscured by the strange idea that they don’t really understand what they’re yapping about therefore it’s not real deception. Old NLP systems can’t even respond to questions let alone lie about anything.

Anyone being patronizing about “not fully learning and understanding” subjects that calls neural networks “autocomplete” is an example of what they preach against. Even if they’re the crappiest AI around (they can be), they still have literally nothing to do with n-grams (autocomplete basically), Markov chains, regex parsers etc and I guess people just lazily read “anti-AI hype” popular articles and mindlessly parrot them instead of bothering with layered perceptrons, linear algebra, decoders etc.

The technology itself is promising. It shouldn’t be gatekept by corporations. It’s usually corporate fine-tuning that makes LLMs incredibly crappier than they can be. There’s math-gpt (unrelated with openAI afaik, double check to be sure) and customizable models on huggingface besides wolfram, ideally a local model is preferable for privacy and customization.

They’re great at explaining STEM related concepts, that’s unrelated to trying to use generic models for computation, getting bad results and dunking on the entire concept even though there are provers and reasoning models for that task that do great at it. Khan academy is also customizing an AI because they can be great for democratizing education, but it needs work. Too bad they’re using openAI models.

And like, the one doing statics for a few decades now is usually a gentleman called AutoCAD or Revit so I don’t know, I guess we all need to thank Autodesk for bridges not collapsing. It would be very bizarre if anyone used non-specialized tools like random LLMs but people thinking that engineers actually do all the math by hand on paper especially for huge projects is kinda hilarious. Even more hilarious is that Autodesk has incorporated AI automation to newer versions of AutoCAD so yeah, not exactly but they kinda do build bridges lmao.

The “humanitarian”, “right 2 protect” intervention propaganda bs is dead and buried after Gaza. Nobody loves religious extremists more than the USA, both domestically and internationally. The primary western whataboutist complain about adversaries is some “freedom of religion” crap, usually because the US is secretly funding literal jihadi butcher separatists to destabilize sovereign nations. It’s always the most rabid extremists, religiously and politically that end up working for the US and then bite the hand that fed them by becoming Al Qaeda and ISIS.

Crickets about the Uyghur jihadis showing up as Al Qaeda forces in now “liberated” shariah law Syria. Crickets about Syria in general. Constant whining about a mostly secular state with far more rights than now, then sponsoring fanatics that curtail all these rights and go about chopping people’s heads off in the street but not a word now because Syria aligns itself with the West, not because it’s more democratic. Tons of whining about Iran instead of the head chopping Syrian jihadis type of “philanthropy”.

Why are the jihadis around? Because the USA has already outlawed all the secular (usually communist) organizations in the Middle East for decades and declared them terrorists. Nobody hates secular organizations in the Middle East, Asia and Africa more than the USA because they’re the least likely to become collaborators.

We can go on to the secondary whataboutist canard that involves doubting the democratic nature of foreign governments (whenever they’re able to resist getting toppled by the CIA boys somehow). This has become just refusing to accept election results by default even when international observers are present and don’t find any irregularities like in Venezuela. Elections that bring up some ultra right nutjob that loves Murica and turns his country to a neoliberal banana republic like Milei are always legitimate, but when Chaves and Maduro win they’re always illegitimate for no reason other than not serving US interests. The US State Department main job is just lying all day long.

We should just bring up this matter to the UN after abolishing the undemocratic security council and the veto right that the USA has abused to continue genocides. Based on the American narrative both Republicans and Democrats accuse each other of stealing and rigging elections so at least one side must be correct. The US is infamous for gerrymandering and artificially preventing minorities from voting anyway (that didn’t even have the right to vote until the 60s, imagine the level of hypocrisy it takes for the US apartheid to wag the finger towards anyone about elections). So maybe it should be invaded by every UN member to restore democracy since the US loves both democracy and invasions to restore it so much.

In fact I bet that plenty of Americans would actually fully welcome an invading force if its only goal would be to abolish the federal government and let them all vote for local fully sovereign governments instead. So maybe circulating this idea might come back to bite interventionists sooner than later.

Zucc himself is a zio, they don’t even need to infiltrate that one.

Acting like constantly expanding NATO to Russia’s border and trying to get an upper hand for a possible first strike in a nuclear exchange by stationing Murican nukes there is “west defending from possible eastern aggression” while trying to justify one more “defensive preemptive strike” in the Middle East because Eglin cheeto eaters can’t ever be consistent. Pipe down and stay in your hemisphere you trash heap unless you want to explain how Crimea somehow didn’t have a valid referendum because Murican State Department doesn’t like the results as if they know anything about Crimea (must be magic how Russia doesn’t need to do much policing in an area that supposedly doesn’t really want to belong to Russia, no resistance to “occupation” at all) but Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, Puerto Rico, Guantanamo in Cuba, the Virgin Islands are parts of the USA. Or how the USA is justified invading the entire Caribbean for a whole century without any foreign superpower trying to put nukes there, just because the US is an imperialist entity into constant landgrabs.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957

What’s this btw? Is it the US directly interfering in Ukrainian politics to set up their puppets for over 10 years? I bet you shills want everyone to forget about that. Gtfo lol.

Iran also does not have a plausible defense purpose for nuclear weapons. If they think the US or Israel would wage war to topple the Iranian state, wouldn’t those countries have done it already over the past 50 years?

Shills straight up denying not just reality but the events they’re spewing propaganda about. Gotta love the gung ho 15 year old attitude by people who have managed to lose every engagement they had in Asia since 1945 with even that mostly because they didn’t have to worry about the other axis countries. Ever thank China and USSR fot taking care of Japan on the mainland while you were busy drowning and flapping about in the Pacific? No, you recruited Unit 731 criminals instead.

Anyway reminder for delulu revisionists like you, you tried to dunk on Korea already back when “their regional partner” was vastly weaker than now and failed miserably. You’d have tried it if failing again wasn’t inevitable. That’s why NK has nukes, not because you supposedly allowed them to have them or were neglectful lmao.

Didn’t realize the US is planning to invade Florida.

It’s the perspective of “I prefer Israel over Iran while white American” but switch that to being Palestinian and I doubt they’d remain pro-Israel. Not that white Americans are loved exactly because Israelis are genocidal racists and supremacists to a disgustingly high percentage, they just don’t commit (many) crimes against US citizens. Just occasionally kill pro-Palestinian US activists and attack US ships like SS Liberty to do a false flag against Egypt.

I’m applying your own logic to yourself and apparently the implied answer is “if others won’t do it then why should I”. Which circles back to you. Since you’re not going to invade Iran personally you don’t get to challenge others to do things you don’t intend to do. Not that I see anyone here challenging you to invade or move to Russia anyway.

People who don’t like Murica should move to Iran like you’re going to join the army today to personally fight the war that you support right? You’re not just being an armchair general, right? You’re gonna actually get on that ship and invade Iran, right?