Building enclosures around human progress.
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Looks like I am wrong about another thing.

Specifically, I am wrong about *approximate human trait imitator*.

Some of the work being done in the space of audio generation (what they call "AI" — atleast one form of "AI") is actually pretty good. Listen to the attached system generated audio (for which they use the buzzword "AI"). In other areas too, some of these are being graduated from being completely useless, to something useful.

I am just listening to audio generated by one of the project & its pretty decent. Even if its not 100% accurate, it seems to be able to do the job reasonably well for those places where we dont need 100% accuracy. Still it has many errors that we can notice in the generated audio, but its still pretty good.

Tho I was aware of this flaw before, about "AI", the problem has always been about how some technologies are being developed, to serve whose interests, at the expense of whose interests.

Definitely some peasants will be made unemployed by this tech, but on the flipside lot more peasants would benefit.

The problem again is who is reaping the benefits of technological advancement i.e who moving collective knowledge accumulation behind closed doors (knowledge is always collective accumulation, no matter what any narcissist thinks, that they are geniuses).

The question has always been who the winners are & who the losers are. Another question has always been, why did we allow such a rotten system to exist to begin with (we Anarchists know i.e systems of domination), where when we have collective progress, the system is so rotten that, even this forward step in human knowledge leaves bitter taste in some/lot of people's mouth, because of the regime of "private property" (i.e gate keeping/building enclosures) & Capitalism (and all the ways that greedy rot manifests i.e "intellectual property" & all other forms of the regime of "private property").

Besides, if you look at the opensource space, since some technologies are moving pretty fast, copying of these ideas are also happening pretty fast. Since everyone is imitating everyone else (best thing to happen, it has to happen lot more without the criminal scammish regime of "intellectual property" & private property coming in the way), more collective progress is being made, at much faster pace & its good for everyone.

One thing we know is human knowledge accumulation is a given.

Those who control resources (and using those resources indirectly to control systems), will be able to stall human progress in the positive direction, unless they get a cut of that progress. They will do everything in their power to ensure no progress is made unless they are allowed to privately profit (thats the space where State & Capital comes in to ensure this collective progress is stolen by few, who are then paraded as "geniuses", "entrepreneurs", "visionaries", and so on, becoming a pig that will ultimately called "philanthropist"). They do this by privatizing all that progress for the benefit of few.

Its an extremely bad positive feedback loop & this is the source of why we have so many parasites at the top i.e Hellsite Nazis, Jeff Bozos, Presidents, Prime ministers, … i.e Massive Liars, Cheats, Thieves & Thugs of the world. Once you become a parasite, you can become a bigger parasite by making walled gardens out of any resource that gives value to humans, thereby building enclosures around not just the resources of today, but enclosing future progress aswell.

Thanks to the regime of private property, you not only steal in the present, but steal the fruits of future human progress aswell & make that progress bitter for so many who are forced to face the short end of the stick.

State, Capital, Universities, and everyone who have any power in the hierarchy are part of enabling this racket of stealing from human progress.

There is an interesting case going on in Empire about "Mexico" ruling class suing Gun manufacturers in Empire about the crimes of its partners in crime i.e Drug cartels.

I went over the arguments submitted by Gun lobby (Capitalists who are there to make $ rather than actually for peasants defending themselves against bigger thugs i.e State, Capital, Fascism …). Even if they are doing the right thing (in my book its right) for wrong reasons, I will take it.

They tear into the the ruling class gangsters in "Mexico". The ruling class thugs from "Mexico" are trying to undermine peasants holding weapons in Empire.

There is a anti-gun shitllib cult thats bred by ruling class all around the world that the only "responsible" people who needs to have weapons are the worst segments of society i.e State & its goons aka organised thug of organised thieves in society. Ruling class created multiple generations of cowards who think stripping peasants of weapons (but ruling class & its goons not being stripped off them) is a "reasonable" position.

In my book, if peasants dont have weapons, the likelihood of us ever achieving Anarchy is near zero. Even with weapons, its close to zero, but without weapons, its definitely zero. Peasants might replace one hierarchical thug with another hierarchical thug i.e State if they dont have access to weapons. But they will never be able to achieve Anarchy if they dont have access to weapons.

Thats because If a revolution happens, new wanna be ruling class bribes those who have access to weapons i.e previous State goons (or) those with weapons (State goons) will declare themselves to be new masters or they decide what the future society should look like if a revolution happens.

This doesnt mean a revolution will ever happen, but if it happens, peasants having weapons is extremely important. In the pre-figuration portion of Anarchy, if peasants have access to weapons, they need to practice & keep themselves ready if revolution were to happen.

So, in my book, we just need to accept the fact that the other negative effects we are seeing are direct result of State & its organised thuggery, enabling organised thievery stripping peasants of tools of self-defense.

Besides, if the weapons are not from Empire, criminals (cartels who work with gangsters in "Mexican" state) get it from some other place. BTW, State is the biggest criminal/terrorist there is in every society — without actual competition. Running a ruiling class scam called "election" & then declaring they now have legitimacy to write "laws" & "enforce" laws is just gas-lighting by ruling class thugs but with more steps to legitimize the organised robbery.

Here are some of their arguments against Mexican gangster i.e Ruling class thug aka State.

> Mexico’s homicides increased not when the 2004 U.S. statute sunset, but when President Calderón deployed 30,000 soldiers and federal police to battle cartels, creating military confrontations and turf wars among cartels. The Mexican military’s harsh domestic law enforcement techniques, the government’s failure to prosecute violent criminals, and the government’s human rights violations have also fueled violence. The Mexican government seeks to hold Petitioners responsible for its own domestic failings.

> Mexico’s failure to prosecute violent criminals has also fostered violent crime: “the violence Mexico faces today is the cumulative effect of the state’s clear failures,” including “the state’s incapacity and unwillingness to prevent, investigate, prosecute, and punish criminal conduct.”

> “the continuous increase in homicides in Mexico” was “the lack of judicial accountability” that “has permeated Mexico for decades and provides fertile ground where criminal behaviour can flourish.”

> (“Impunity and extremely low rates of prosecution remained a problem for all crimes,” including for “government agents” who “were complicit with international criminal gangs.”).

> The Mexican government has also been accused of inciting violent reactions from cartels by committing human rights violations, including: “unlawful or arbitrary killings by police, military, and other governmental officials; forced disappearance by government agents;…violence against journalists; serious acts of government corruption[.]” Id.; see also Kloppe-Santamaria, supra (“Military and police personnel, in particular, have been accused of the abduction of thousands of people over the course of the last decade.”).

> In short, Mexico’s homicide problem stems from a culture of criminal impunity in the legal system, and a culture of extra-legal killings by the military.

Source:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-1141/310430/20240522135935043_23-1141%20-%20NRA%20-%20Amicus%20Brief.pdf