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New comment by nahuel0x in "Marx, Keynes, and AI"

nahuel0x — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:35:03 +0000

Marx foresaw and correctly predicted the rise of what he calls "organic composition of capital" (simplifying, machines and automated production) and the diminishing of human labour.. which can also be seen as accumulated past (dead) labour over living labour.

There is a famous fragment about how this, taken to the extreme, results in a contradiction that breaks the law of value, and it makes no more sense to use labour time as exchange value: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/...

We are now seeing an almost literal realization of this passage:

  The accumulation of knowledge and of skill, of the general productive forces of the social brain, is thus absorbed into capital, as opposed to labour, and hence appears as an attribute of capital, and more specifically of fixed capital, in so far as it enters into the production process as a means of production proper

What Marx didn't imagine AFAIK, was fully autonomous machines that not only can reproduce themselves but that they can also use guns (and surveillance, prediction, germs, etc) against all humanity, transcending capitalist relationships and potentially controlled by a single master (hi Elon) or none (Skynet), without workers involvement. That kind of machine is outside Marx analysis but doesn't contradict it. We are seeing the first glimpses of it in the AI systems used to execute the Gaza genocide. In such scenario who controls the ASI controls the world, more like Hitler with an Aladdin's lamp than the metabolism and historical evolution described in Das Kapital we saw until now.

New comment by nahuel0x in "A Man Who Saw Humanity from Two Billion Years Away"

nahuel0x — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:44:03 +0000

Because Stapledon influenced Foundation directly, acknowledged by Asimov in his own autobiography.

New comment by nahuel0x in "Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04)"

nahuel0x — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:05:27 +0000

I care and I'm part of Nature.

New comment by nahuel0x in "Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04)"

nahuel0x — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:30:48 +0000

As far as we know life is only present on Earth, we presuppose that in the vastness of Cosmos there are other instances of it or that it can re-emerge from almost zero, but the reality is that we simply don't know. So maybe there is a possibility that wiping out all the life on Earth also wipes it from the entire Cosmos, forever.

New comment by nahuel0x in "There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]"

nahuel0x — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:18:37 +0000

USSR animated version (1984): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oxP3TyuQx0

New comment by nahuel0x in "Our position on open-weights models"

nahuel0x — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:10:33 +0000

So he is against China for its hypothetical usage of AI against civilians but is not against US and Israel that already use AI provided by him to operate a real genocide that kills thousands and thousands of Gaza children in the most horrible ways? Very ethical.

New comment by nahuel0x in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

nahuel0x — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:11:06 +0000

Information wants to be free.

New comment by nahuel0x in "ECC and DDR5"

nahuel0x — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:56:24 +0000

Something important not discussed here is that you need not only error correction (when possible) but also error reporting, so you can know you RAM is failing. Sadly, is not possible to get DDR5 on-die ECC error counts reported to the OS. Alternative solution, use IBECC with DDR5, where the CPU reserves a portion of the RAM for parity bits and does the check / reporting.

New comment by nahuel0x in "Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible"

nahuel0x — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:07:56 +0000

Piketty is not a marxist, he even declared he never read Das Capital.

New comment by nahuel0x in "Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)"

nahuel0x — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:11:08 +0000

Seconded, but note some paths were taken (at least partially), as in some way is a meta-book were each paragraph comprises an idea that deserves a full book on its own. Some Stapledon readers were clearly inspired by it, e.g. Dyson spheres were first postulated there, and Borges got the "The Garden of Forking Paths" idea also from it.. and also Virtual Reality (not bad for 1937!) . Asimov was also an Stapledon admirer and he said that Stapledon expanded s.f. to a cosmic scale, so I think that Stapledon influence is also very present in The Last Question.

New comment by nahuel0x in "Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)"

nahuel0x — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:59:26 +0000

I remembered this short story recently while reading Ilyenkov "Cosmology of the Spirit", also from 1950s but only published in 1980s ( https://static1.squarespace.com/static/588bcd399f74561e5f64a... )

New comment by nahuel0x in "AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying"

nahuel0x — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:01:21 +0000

I think nobody with a couple of neurons still buys the "every school and hospital in Gaza were Hamas, so we bombed them" nazi-zionist rhetoric.

New comment by nahuel0x in "Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]"

nahuel0x — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:21:36 +0000

You are confusing intelligence with consciousness (qualia). We simply don't know how qualia develops or how to measure it. We cannot discard, for example, than an ant has a greater qualia level than us. There are theories about qualia being connected to microtubules on neurons and quantum effects... the DOOM-playing neurons also have those microtubules. So you cannot say "definitely not".

New comment by nahuel0x in "Owner of ICE detention facility sees big opportunity in AI man camps"

nahuel0x — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:42:54 +0000

Arbeit macht frei

New comment by nahuel0x in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

nahuel0x — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:53:06 +0000

Remember that the US administration is supporting Israel on the ethnic-cleansing and genocide of Gaza, using Palantir technology and AI systems that generate kill lists. It's "IBM and the Holocaust" all over again.

New comment by nahuel0x in "Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu"

nahuel0x — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:00:52 +0000

Zed already has a client/server editor architecture: https://zed.dev/docs/remote-development

New comment by nahuel0x in "Technocracy 2.0"

nahuel0x — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 21:27:52 +0000

Technocracy had both socialist proponents like Charles Steinmetz and also anti-communists racists/fascists like Joshua Haldeman (Elon Musk grandfather). In some ways technocracy is the acknowledging of the necessity of economy planning to transcend capitalism but without taking into account class struggle. That way, it can be seen like a good-willed engineer dream that doesn't wants to face social reality or thinks socialist like planning can be implemented just by convincing capitalists it's advantages for the entire society (somewhat like the old utopian socialism / fabianism)... or, it can be used as an ideological cover-up to sell the dream of a brighter future but without questioning the billonarie class, the concentration of capital or the property of the means of production, while avoiding taking explicit positions in every class struggle instance.

I think this new version is the latter case, a bad rehearsal used as a veil of the ascent of fascism in the States.

New comment by nahuel0x in "ThingsBoard: Open-Source IoT Platform"

nahuel0x — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 18:59:35 +0000

LabView vibes

New comment by nahuel0x in "John Varley has died"

nahuel0x — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:49:12 +0000

As someone who read The Persistence of Vision at almost the same age, I concur, it was transformative.

New comment by nahuel0x in "Perl's decline was cultural"

nahuel0x — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 19:04:26 +0000

Perl was a bad language, line noise. It was better than using bash and awk for complex scripting, and better than using C for CGI pages. But Python and PHP were better and more readable for those use cases, and killed Perl.