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You can't just stop AI without also stopping progress in computer hardware. You have to do both.

The real implication of what they're saying extends beyond just AI.

You have to stop the entire compute stack in order to prevent or slow down AI progress.

If it's everyone's favorite part of town why not just codify it at the city level?

I think the case against Flock isn't about its efficacy, it's simply about civil rights.

Similar to how gun laws aren't about the safety of guns, I think Flock cameras, and other surveillance technologies simply encroach on individual freedoms.

A citizen should be reasonably free from government surveillance.

Time to load is perhaps one of the key metrics software is measured by because time to load directly relates to user action.

Slower load times means user won't use the product, won't click the buy button, or will simply leave.

It's given many more an opportunity to fulfill their dreams.

Have you actually looked at the current financials?

>making it cheap and fast to build whatever you like automatically

This can be true, while "nullifies such "business" concerns" can be false. Both are not dependent on each other.

Automation doesn't "nullify business concerns", it just changes them.

> There isn't really much waste in federal spending

What makes the federal any different than any other organization?

This isn't good news...

"Left-liberals don't exist"

This is straight out of the 19th and 20th century. Like old-socialist rhetoric (emphasis on the old). Even the revolutionary politics is basically a conservative regurgitation of the 19th and 20th century. Like this is de facto how the socialists and communists have always thought about the liberals and even enlightenment era thinkers, accusing the entire project of fascism, Western European imperialism, and so on.

It's almost like a caricature of the 19th and 20th century at this point.

There is no new politics. No new frontiers. Nothing new. Even as the entire world has completely changed, and the ground completely shifted.

Well... No. I'm saying that's generally the position of conservatism/right wing/authoritarian politics.

A left leaning politics does not just address the change, or accept change as is, but fundamentally invents the change. It is the revolutionary movement that leverage modernity, that is to say newness, your scientific revolutions, your enlightenment ideals, etc. to create new politics. Politics that are emancipatory.

The left is supposed to be a politics of historical invention. Using modernity to create new institutions, new rights, new publics, and new forms of collective life. Contemporary American left-liberal politics has become largely defensive and curatorial instead.

In other words the left generally invents the future, and dictates the changes in politics, that's what makes it 'progressive', that's why it's against reactionary politics.

So I'm saying the left leaning politics of today has fallen prey to closed, diminutive, reactionary politics, and there is new real new left politics that's inventing anything. At least not in America.

There was a glimmer with early technology, but the left rejected that politics in favor for stale institutionalism (the same ones from the 19th and 20th century), and ceded that technological ground to techno-fascists/rightwing/authoritarian/etc.etc. politics.

If the progressives and liberals are arguing that there is no longer any change in politics, then I think perhaps you've become conservatives/reactionary.

It was subversive to the ruling class, and the politics of that time. Schools for example made books accessible to everyone, where only 'elites' had access to them before. Thereby leveling the playing field.

A left leaning politics of today might actually ask for more compute or intelligence to be accessible to all.

Nationalizing or demanding a democratized project for frontier level intelligence that's easily accessible to all Americans, for example might be an idea.

This would be in direct competition with frontier labs that are all closed source and heavily funded. It would give access to people otherwise gated due to monetary reasons. And further give individual American an opportunity to participate in a coming social/technological transformation.