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The manifesto of the communist party is not a huge theoretical foundational text.

If you’re interested in marxist theory I would suggest reading modern Marxists like Slavoj Žižek. It’s much more useful than reading actual marxist theory which is pretty dry and whose ideas have been adopted by various disciplines such as economics, history and philosophy already so they might not be as new and interesting as they were in the 19th century.

Maybe something like “Democracy in What State?” from 2011, you can just search for it on AA.

It will be 79%

In my book I write, “Can a bridge decide to collapse?” The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy? There are permits you have to acquire. There are supposed to be tests. When you ask about the bridge collapsing itself, you’ve lost the thread.

Quite a good quote.

I also like her observations about lawmakers reacting to media coverage of AI breakthroughs and not listening to people from the fields where the supposed breakthroughs have happend (like with the maths problem recently).

I’m not so sure. Probably they will block Linux users from certain sites. Not exactly what I’d call a win.

It wasn’t really worth it before, now it’s even less worth it?

Revanced works perfectly fine on Android and on desktop I use an adblocker.

Or if you want to put minimal effort and have it look better than whatever your phone is capable of strem.io

I remember saving up for those and then spending the money in Steam sales. Shame for all the kids who want to buy games that can’t use their parents credit card.