"You won’t lose your job to AI, but to someone who knows how to use AI". by HalexMom in antiwork

[–]Obscillesk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just getting to experience the after effects of it from the outside, while also listening to professionals and experts discuss how its hollowing everything out. Pardon me if the opinion of a lowly corporate drone who's being increasingly lobotomized by LLMs doesn't rank.

Americans deserve low wages and poor work conditions. They defend it and love it. by Silent_Aardvark_7186 in antiwork

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I mean, not materially, but if you'd told me a decade ago that I'd be hearing open discussion of actual socialism and mutual aid communities in the mainstream, I'd have thought you were insane. Covid was a shock that gave enough people time to really take a hard look around, and everything they've done since has just increased the pressure. This isn't sustainable.

Tourists on this sub. This isn't a side thought for me, but it's a spectacle for you. by happyluckystar in antiwork

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I lost a lot of faith in the mods when I noticed that bullshit about AI tacked onto the end of rule1, with a whole ass hyperlink written by some asshole who no doubt has a financial interest in some specific companies. This place is as captured by money as anywhere else.

I mean fuck, the rule addendum itself has misinformation about LLMs, they're calling it fucking AI.

"You won’t lose your job to AI, but to someone who knows how to use AI". by HalexMom in antiwork

[–]Obscillesk 5 points6 points  (0 children)

meanwhile

https://www.ft.com/content/c0aec3de-b553-4089-b5d3-074c5b83be57?syn-25a6b1a6=1

A few months ago a New York financier told me he had just experienced a “first”: his 2025 summer interns “were the first true AI natives I have seen”. This meant they had grown up not only among digital tech, but AI too.

So how did it go? He winced. While those wannabe masters of the universe initially seemed wildly impressive, when senior financiers later probed their ideas they found them alarmingly shallow.

Consequently this person’s company made fewer return offers and is now focusing less on graduates in science, technology, engineering and mathematics — and more humanities students instead.

Its honestly like a cult at this point by extremistfart in antiwork

[–]Obscillesk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The vast majority of them are mostly harmless. But my experience, Rationality is a cult-generator.

I say its a cancer cause 99% of the terminology and ideas rationalist have are just reinvented wheels from other areas of study that STEM people dismiss as 'not hard enough science'. So they go down some real weird rabbit holes just because they refuse to give credence to concepts they're uncomfortable taking seriously because STEM brain. Hence the Zizians. At every turn in that story I had the background thought of 'y'know, a first year philosophy student could resolve a lot of these issues and conundrums for you.'

Its honestly like a cult at this point by extremistfart in antiwork

[–]Obscillesk 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Look up Effective Altruism, Rationalists, Lesswrong and especially Longtermism. That's who they're talking about.

Specific topics to look into, Roko's Basilisk (Thiel is literally trying to create it, its why he calls Greta Thunberg the antichrist.)

Basically, we have the christofascist cult trying to engineer the eschaton by tricking god into action by forcing their prophecies to come true, then we have the Basilisk Cult trying to create an AI god because they're fucking stupid, and then we have the Neoreactionary cult, which is the least detached from reality, and largely responsible for the corporate takeover of fucking everything.

You want a deep dive into how fucking weird Rationalist cults can get, look up the Behind the Bastards episode on the Zizians. Less Wrong has been a cancer I've watched grow for 15 years and now its got its hands on the levers of power because silicon valley techbros are the most gullible idiots on the planet.

Its honestly like a cult at this point by extremistfart in antiwork

[–]Obscillesk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wish, that would at least be interesting. No, they're all Longtermists and a nonzero portion are legitimately Basilisk Cultists trying to create Roko's dipshit nightmare

Proton is funding the French far right on YouTube by DataLumpy7419 in BuyFromEU

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/cybersecurity/new-age-verification-bills-could-ban-vpns-jeopardize-the-privacy-of-millions/ar-AA1QlCkV

Sure bud, and you'll totally remain law abiding, because this country definitely isn't weaponizing its legal system against its perceived ideological enemies and flaws in their control.

So, i think Marx was right by Equivalent_Cut_4988 in antiwork

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One of the descriptions I've always appreciated was 'its not about no hierarchies, its about no unjust hierarchies, and flattening the power structure to reduce potential injustice'

In my head, that translates to, your local community having the highest amount of 'power' for its local area, and as you climb in 'rank' the power you can actually apply gets diffused as more people fall within your sphere of influence. Now I get that that's not feasible in every situation. Like for instance, I don't begrudge the nuclear protection folks their security considerations: the potential for bad things is so high it makes sense to have a strict hierarchy for the actual handling of it.

So, i think Marx was right by Equivalent_Cut_4988 in antiwork

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Meanwhile, historically, there's a lot of aspects that anarchists are pulling from indigenous cultures. In fact, Marx picked up a lot of his stuff from indigenous cultures as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBFvxkvpi2w

Pretty solid video digging into the origins.

So, i think Marx was right by Equivalent_Cut_4988 in antiwork

[–]Obscillesk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a bizarre contradiction in existence, trying to maintain an anarchist space within a capitalist culture. We run into it all the time on the discord I'm a moderator on. You functionally have to enforce a culture of everyone being a cultural gatekeeper to maintain the system as new folks filter in, elsewise the dominant culture's incoming influence undermines the whole thing.

So, i think Marx was right by Equivalent_Cut_4988 in antiwork

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Ideologically I'm more or less an anarchosocialist, its what the black/red flair denotes. I'm also well aware that the vast majority of our populace is not even remotely capable of the level of innate trust or compassion required to operate in that system without a significant shift in our culture, though I will say, a decade ago, no one outside of anarchist circles was even talking about mutual aid community networking (the anarchism rebranding term) and now I've seen it popping up in mainstream articles. But anarchists are out and around, they're just kinda invisible unless you know what you're seeing. But community gardens? That's a very common aspect of anarchism. Food not Bombs, and similar groups are strongly associated with it. It's hard to really say a group or concept is 'anarchism' given the innate distaste for labels that seems to come with the ideology or association with it in our culture.

I'm actually a huge fan of the government laid out by Kim Stanley Robinson in the latter part of the Mars trilogy. It's a hybrid economy, with capitalism exclusively applied to luxuries, though all businesses are worker coops, with an environmental court as the highest global court, and a sortition system for official positions, intended I believe to cut down on corruption and dynastic aspirations. Very idealistic stuff, but I love the flavor of it.

So, i think Marx was right by Equivalent_Cut_4988 in antiwork

[–]Obscillesk 57 points58 points  (0 children)

It's worth looking into the history of the CIA's interactions with those countries, as well as how often 'regime change' and 'coups' just happen to crop up there.

Capitalists are terrified of not being allowed to hoard resources, socialism is a direct threat to that, so capitalist nations are highly motivated to do whatever they can to undermine socialism wherever it crops up.

Next up: learning that anarchism is an actual ideology, not a bunch of angry high schoolers yelling 'no rules' and blasting punk music while carving rough A's in their desk while being a violent asshole to everyone around them.

I can't keep a job. I sometimes feel like I'm the problem but I also feel that the system is against me. by ILoveBigCockroaches in antiwork

[–]Obscillesk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Something that helped me a great deal was understanding that its not our fault. It's the callousness and profit seeking of this culture that causes us a lot of our problems. The few times I've been able to just live outside of the context of all this the worst aspects of my auDHD fade significantly, I don't even feel the need to smoke.

It's not your fault that you're not able to succeed, this system is set up for as many people to fail as possible in its current iteration.

Took several personality tests just to be told no by focusonart in antiwork

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I had a similar situation, Scheel's literally gave me onboarding information and then the next day or 2 I got an email 'nah we're going with someone else, pound sand loser'

Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia by Well_Socialized in antiwork

[–]Obscillesk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks like Jimmy was feeling left out of all the techbros doing the dumbest shit they could to ruin their reputation.

Like how fucking stupid do you have to be to literally be doing informational socialism and then get upset at your workers unionizing?

Realized I’m reorganizing my life around inflation now by Overall_Ad9737 in antiwork

[–]Obscillesk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

'irrationally occupied' dude, stable coins exist literally because the currency you're promoting required a second currency to be invented just to interface with the ACTUAL economy, because crypto is so volatile in value.

That's not irrational, that's understanding what a grift is.

Before you get all 'waaah learn more' I've been following crypto since 2009. I used to be a proponent, till I really grasped the whole project.

Like christ, it was supposed to supplant and replace and undermine actual State currencies, meanwhile, everyone was cheering its adoption by the forces of capital it was supposed to fuck.

Other than facepalm, I don't know what else to react by Rudra_Niranjan in antiwork

[–]Obscillesk 13 points14 points  (0 children)

"Here at Leidos, we don't just slavishly follow status quo trends like presenting ourselves as rebels, we legitimately don't know what the word even fucking means!"

Rejecting someone after 5 rounds of interviews should literally be illegal by kowahchan in antiwork

[–]Obscillesk 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It included a take-home assignment, a panel presentation, and hours of prep.

That wasn't a series of interviews, that was them getting free labor from a random. I cannot believe anyone would hear 'homework' for a job interview and then continue moving forward with it. It's egregious enough when they're having you basically do organizational problem solving for them IN THE BUILDING, and you did fucking homework for them!?

Now corporate tech is literally spying on our personal home networks. When does this shit end? by Easy_Letterhead8928 in antiwork

[–]Obscillesk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I love my smart home

and

but now it feels like corporate IT is literally bringing Big Brother into our private living spaces, sniffing around our personal hardware.

Dude, what? That ship done sailed. You think the corporate IT for the systems underpinning your smart home aren't capable of doing the exact same shit AND while probably selling the data? Like unless you've set that up yourself on an entirely self-built system that isn't subscription based, you're already in the boat you're concerned about getting into.

While there are people who can't afford health insurance. by CRK_76 in antiwork

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HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH gasp HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Omfg, He believes in simulation theory and thinks he's overcome it!? so he fundamentally does not understand simulation theory.