2026-08-08 23:47 UTC
Even with the best will in the world there are huge practical problems implementing communism with any actually scarce resources - but many forms of "information communism" are extremely easy to implement, because information is a pure public good - it's not diminished when shared. There are still major practical problems - information enclosure is one of the major ways in which information production is materially supported - but *many* of the problems are straightforwardly political.
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@ajswritesthings@plasmatrap.com 2026-08-09 00:12
@Lafargue@mastodon.social I think LLMs are an attempt to change that state of affairs though? The whole appeal for capitalists is that you need a data center to run them — they make information retrieval materially expensive/scarce