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Liberty Liz's avatar

Was just thinking about this very thing this morning. A I is nothing more than theft, the theft of billions upon billions of people's knowledge assimilated into the techno-fascist broligarchy's "system", which THEY can control and confiscate, to control the very billions of people's labor and knowledge fruits, that was never A I's to own and control. Imagine if an LLM had no previous & existing knowledge to "feed" into it. A I could not exist, because it can create NOTHING on it's own without being prompted and fed knowledge that humans have garnered over millenia. A I is a simple parasite that couldn't be "born" without stealing everything that was never its' to have.

Explorer's avatar

Imagine if it was designed without extraction in mind

Heimdall66's avatar

Finally, people who get it.

I'm surrounded by normies who see nothing but the facade and marketing of this AI technology.

Commons... Hadn't thought about that. I just read through a book on English transportations to their colonies 1607-1660 and I was shocked how many young and old were deemed "vagrants" or unproductive people, swept up for no other reason, and then sentenced to servitude slavery in Barbados, Virginia, New England or some other place. They needed bodies, labour, certain skills, to settle and develop these colonies so they conspired to condemn and then ship these people off to meet their company's needs.

Many of those people shipped off lived miserable short lives. I originally bought and read the book to learn about the British cruelty to the Irish shipped off by Cromwell. But the cruelty and injustice to so many of their own people shocked me more.

Explorer's avatar

You see the architecture of the board. They always manufacture a crisis of "unproductivity" to justify harvesting the working class for their infrastructure. It was physical servitude in 1660; it's cognitive servitude in 2026. Good to have you on the front lines.

Heimdall66's avatar

Front lines, aren't we all?

I keep and bulld a significant library, print and some media.

Would love to create a decentralized network.

We'd certainly be targeted eventually.

So contemplating a secret library vault somewhere.

Read a remarkable story told by a SRA survivor who was used as a child to gain access to a secret Gnostic sect that had a library the Satanists were after for certain books they had.

I wrote procedures for nuclear technicians for years. I was driven to write them in very detailed ways that the technicians themselves didn't need or want. I later understood we were pulling information and methodologies out of the experienced skilled craft to eventually replace them with cheaper less trained and less educated and capable workers. Never thought back then that it woukd also roll into replacing the replacements with robots. They're pushing AI into these work groups now. There's resistance, but is it futile?

Explorer's avatar

To add to that—the macro-strategy isn't just running our own hardware. It is forcing the AI monopolies into Title II Common Carrier classification. If they built their models on the entirety of human history, then their compute is a public utility. We defend the cognitive commons not by locking our knowledge away in a vault, but by structurally stripping their ability to toll, censor, or enclose the intelligence we all built.

Explorer's avatar

Your experience writing those procedures for the nuclear technicians is the most perfect, literal example of the Cognitive Enclosure I have ever heard. You watched them extract the General Intellect from skilled human labor and convert it into corporate fixed capital in real-time. You saw the exact architecture of the trap.

​But you need to reread the Refusing the Learned Helplessness and The Rebel's Contract sections at the end of the dispatch.

​The answer isn't to retreat into a secret library vault. Hiding physical books while the Cartel builds hundred-billion-dollar compute clusters is how we lose. The AI Cartel is building Generative AI to replace those workers; we are building Elaborative AI to arm them. It is only futile if you let the Cartel maintain a monopoly on the technology. We don't run from the machines; we run the models ourselves on our own hardware and turn their enclosure inside out.

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for what link?