There is no class.

Well, that’s a new one on me. I’ve seen people argue that the earth is flat, but this is the first time I’ve seen somebody argue that being rich is the same as being poor. So, congrats on originality, I guess.

I’m no expert, but it sounds like they were killed by authoritarianism, not communism. I don’t think communism requires concentration camps, famines, or cultural purges.

What a crazy coincidence. I was just checking out this GitHub today. It has a project called Anewbis which is

A fork of Anubis without the cringey anime catgirl. This fork provides no other changes. It just updates from the main project and removes the stupid catgirl.

It’s like saving a lossy file over and over again. It degrades each time.

Almost all these books were either headed to the dump or the recycling center. They’re just being digitized on the way.

Where does it say that in this article?

If the AI companies were simply picking up books that were already going to a landfill, I don’t think that would bother anybody. That isn’t what we’re talking about here, though. These books are coming from booksellers, so it’s fair to guess that most of them are at least a notch or two above what you’d find in a Goodwill bargain bin.

AI model output can be inspired and creative

No, it can’t, because inspiration and creativity arise out of brains, and LLMs don’t have brains or anything similar to brains. They just output tokens that are statistically likely to appear together.

There is a danger for rare books, though. If AI companies buy up and destroy these rare books, they become much harder to find and might disappear entirely.

You actually think that AI companies don’t care about or need to make money?!? That’s a pretty bold claim. Do you have any evidence for this? How does an AI company survive long-term without making any money?

I mean, I know what they’re trying to do. They’re trying to make other businesses dependent upon their services, and then once that happens, they can jack the prices up and start becoming profitable. I thought this was pretty obvious, but you have some other idea about a bunch of fascists stealing everything humanity creates in order to…do…something? What are they accomplishing here?

This isn’t like kicking out immigrants. That’s a bad analogy. This is more like mocking Trump voters. I think that people’s bad behaviors should be called out.

If you don’t shame people for using AI, then AI usage becomes normalized.

The article says that they have 3 kids under the age of 5. I’m gonna be charitable and say that the stress of parenting may have impaired their judgment.

I wonder why we’re seeing so many of these comments in a Fuck AI sub, no less. Maybe we’re being astroturfed?

…Because they could just blame it on the software.

Wow, you solved mental illness! All we have to do is teach critical thinking!

I’m well aware of the history of the Temple. I’ve read Joseph Laycock’s Speak of the Devil, which is a chronicle of TST’s first decade. I recommend that you read it as well, because you have a lot of misapprehensions about TST.

Then stop appropriating the iconography of their central villain.

It’s not appropriation. Satan as a heroic figure also has a history that goes back hundreds of years into Romantic literature.

Besides, Christians didn’t invent Satan. He came out of Jewish mythology.

Oh, good grief. No, I’m not interested in “riling up Christians”, either! In fact, I would prefer to get along with Christians. Almost 100% of my religious practice I’ve been alone or with other Satanists and zero Christians.

If it was only a philosophy, then you’d have a point.

What gives you the right to tell Satanists that they aren’t sincere? And no, TST does not “attack religion”. We defend Satanism.

I know because I’m part of a TST congregation. We have ministers, we have rituals, we have holidays. We have tax-exempt status like any other church. If you ask anybody in my congregation, they’ll say the same thing: our religion is Satanism and TST is our church.