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Cake day: August 11th, 2020

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  • I think you’ve seen me whine about my work enough to know my feelings on offices and meaningless jobs, but I’ve also hit the burnout point in every line of work I’ve ever engaged in and I don’t want to end up that way with compassion.

    So I guess my advice here is to keep an open mind as to what “helping people” means. Think about what you’re good at and where it might be put to use in your community. You could take a part-time job stocking shelves at a grocery store, for instance, and while it’s maybe not the direct action that you’re looking for, people need to eat and you need a paycheck. It doesn’t have to be your identity - just the thing you’re doing right now to get by without hurting anyone while you figure things out.

    This is more or less my plan now that we’ve finally got some savings. I’m hoping that without the shame of office life weighing me down, I’ll feel a little more free to contribute outside of work?















  • He may be a sucker but at least he is engaging with the topic. The sheer lack of curiosity toward so-called “artificial intelligence” here on hexbear is just as frustrating as any of the bazinga takes on reddit-logo. No material analysis, no good faith discussion, no strategy to liberate these tools in service of the proletariat - just the occasional dunk post and an endless stream of the same snide remarks from the usuals.

    The hexbear party line toward LLMs and similar technologies is straight up reactionary. If we don’t look for ways to utilize, subvert and counter these technologies while they’re still in their infancy then these dorks are going to be the only ones who know how to use them. And if we don’t interact with the underlying philosophical questions concerning sentience and consciousness, those same dorks will also have control of the narrative.

    Are we just content to hand over a new means of production and information warfare to the technophile neo-feudalists of Silicon Valley with zero resistance? Yes, apparently, and it is so much more disappointing than seeing the target demographic of a marketing stunt buy into that marketing stunt.