Today the International Committee of the Fourth International inaugurates Socialism AI, a transformative application of advanced technological development to the political education and mobilization of the international working class.
I have not read the article yet but i think this is a good topic to discuss here.
Sidenote: PW is a goldmine when it comes to ML theory. I’m proud to have helped a little and will most likely be helping more in the future.
The LLM idea is much more versatile than people think. Your examples would already mean quantum leaps in ML agitation and helping people understand without accepting revisionism or something. its really great. my additional idea is something like grok but for MLs so as to get it to cite theory or analysis on social media (mastodon for example).
My personal wet dream is having the individual authors read their works in all languages in color, in their voice. People tend to underestimate the power of personality that comes with movement and language. Stalin at the drums and lenin at the microphone was really a sight to behold (available on red creators network on youtube) although it was of course not authentic as lenin was not a singer afaik. The emotions it triggers are next level. Especially since there are video and audio files of stalin, i would love to have some more of the OGs that gives the incredible theoretical prowess the well deserved personality that people nowadays definitely need.
I’m kind of wary about cult of personality, even among our heroes. I’m constantly reminding myself (after forgetting for a little bit, usually lol) that heros are human, with human falliabilities, partly as a reality check, partly as innoculation against disillusionment with a whole, rather than individual quirks, I think.
I understand that. But after reading a lot of theory, marx, engels, lenin and stalin are amongst the greatest heroes that ever lived, objectively. Not because i count everything that happened while they were in power but by the theory they wrote that will forever help people survive, liberate, change, cooperate, etc. and even proved them to be true. Its the thanos “okay i’m gonna do it myself” meme in a way. Of course they werent alone, they never acted alone, materialism even suggests they did not really have a chance but to write it but i choose to hold them in high regard, place pictures of them at my home, etc. to remind me every day what I aspire to achieve. You can of course do differently or plain disagree on that idea but i dont think this constitutes a “cult”. Its plain admiration of people who managed to do the thing. :)
And there are of course others who deserve admiration. Its also part of my personality to have mentors which helps me learn faster through mimmicking. The important distinction is to basically get off at the correct stop (talking in trains since i’m riding a train atm) and not loosing the bigger picture for plain parasocial relationship.
We’ve looked at integrating TTS natively onto our pages previously but it’s not great. Firefox had an API to use the rudimentary pre-installed voice packages but apparently they are deprecating it and it’s unsure if it’ll work for everyone.
And of course since we change the content sometimes, having a static TTS file means we need to recreate and reupload it every time we make an edit. Very costly if we start looking at AI TTS voices, unless we are able to start running some on our server locally.
You could totally have a choice of voices such as Lenin, Stalin, anyone for whom we have voice recordings basically lol. And yes neural networks are especially good at TTS and even different languages, it’s one of the first things they perfected - it’s pretty surreal listening to yourself speak perfect Chinese or Danish in your own voice and shows that we are not so different after all from each other.
The first time i saw this was when watching cpt traore speak perfect english and only later discovering that he does not speak english, at the very least at that level.
That was when I first thought “this might actually help us A LOT.”
But the most cruel thing will be when you’re discussing something on grad and you can just do cite and !stalin to have an llm use original works of stalin to analyze the quote for its truthfulness and theoretical quality.
Edit: or maybe just @stalin to get the bot to respond. That would be awesome.
Sidenote: PW is a goldmine when it comes to ML theory. I’m proud to have helped a little and will most likely be helping more in the future.
The LLM idea is much more versatile than people think. Your examples would already mean quantum leaps in ML agitation and helping people understand without accepting revisionism or something. its really great. my additional idea is something like grok but for MLs so as to get it to cite theory or analysis on social media (mastodon for example).
My personal wet dream is having the individual authors read their works in all languages in color, in their voice. People tend to underestimate the power of personality that comes with movement and language. Stalin at the drums and lenin at the microphone was really a sight to behold (available on red creators network on youtube) although it was of course not authentic as lenin was not a singer afaik. The emotions it triggers are next level. Especially since there are video and audio files of stalin, i would love to have some more of the OGs that gives the incredible theoretical prowess the well deserved personality that people nowadays definitely need.
I’m kind of wary about cult of personality, even among our heroes. I’m constantly reminding myself (after forgetting for a little bit, usually lol) that heros are human, with human falliabilities, partly as a reality check, partly as innoculation against disillusionment with a whole, rather than individual quirks, I think.
I understand that. But after reading a lot of theory, marx, engels, lenin and stalin are amongst the greatest heroes that ever lived, objectively. Not because i count everything that happened while they were in power but by the theory they wrote that will forever help people survive, liberate, change, cooperate, etc. and even proved them to be true. Its the thanos “okay i’m gonna do it myself” meme in a way. Of course they werent alone, they never acted alone, materialism even suggests they did not really have a chance but to write it but i choose to hold them in high regard, place pictures of them at my home, etc. to remind me every day what I aspire to achieve. You can of course do differently or plain disagree on that idea but i dont think this constitutes a “cult”. Its plain admiration of people who managed to do the thing. :)
And there are of course others who deserve admiration. Its also part of my personality to have mentors which helps me learn faster through mimmicking. The important distinction is to basically get off at the correct stop (talking in trains since i’m riding a train atm) and not loosing the bigger picture for plain parasocial relationship.
I’m saying there’s a fine line between admiration and hero worship; and that I cross it too often. Ymmv
We’ve looked at integrating TTS natively onto our pages previously but it’s not great. Firefox had an API to use the rudimentary pre-installed voice packages but apparently they are deprecating it and it’s unsure if it’ll work for everyone.
And of course since we change the content sometimes, having a static TTS file means we need to recreate and reupload it every time we make an edit. Very costly if we start looking at AI TTS voices, unless we are able to start running some on our server locally.
You could totally have a choice of voices such as Lenin, Stalin, anyone for whom we have voice recordings basically lol. And yes neural networks are especially good at TTS and even different languages, it’s one of the first things they perfected - it’s pretty surreal listening to yourself speak perfect Chinese or Danish in your own voice and shows that we are not so different after all from each other.
The first time i saw this was when watching cpt traore speak perfect english and only later discovering that he does not speak english, at the very least at that level.
That was when I first thought “this might actually help us A LOT.”
But the most cruel thing will be when you’re discussing something on grad and you can just do cite and !stalin to have an llm use original works of stalin to analyze the quote for its truthfulness and theoretical quality.
Edit: or maybe just @stalin to get the bot to respond. That would be awesome.