u/CDN-Social-Democrat

When it comes to Leftist action what areas are you most passionate about and what organizations are you involved in?

Areas like: Labour Movement, Environmentalist Movement, Women's Rights Movement/LGBTQ+ Rights Movement/Civil Rights Movement, Peace Movement, Alter-Globalization Movement, and so on?

My areas of focus are: Labour Movement (Unions, Federation of Labours, Labour Councils, and so on) + Environmentalist Movement (If the Climate Crisis and Overall Environmental Crisis Points get much worse we are long-term dooming the working class and most vulnerable) + Peace Movement (Combating the best I can international & domestic surveillance and militarization - We don't need more propaganda brainwashing the working class and most vulnerable to kill and maim other working class and most vulnerable for the interests of Oligarchs, Multinational Business Lobbies, Powerful & Predatory Industries/Tycoons, and the general Corporatocracy)

What fronts are you fighting on?

Solidarity!

Watching peaceful people be arrested for protesting war crimes (Genocide).

Watching peaceful people be arrested for trying to get substantive action on the Climate Crisis.

This world is locking up the people trying to make things brighter and better.

This is absolute insanity.

We all know that the Labour Movement (Unions, Federation of Labours, Labour Councils, and so on) are how we got the rights and benefits we enjoy today.

The biggest focus of leftist politics is of course the working class/labour issues.

Carney has been doing small jabs here and there to Labour. He has also been doing huge uppercuts here and there to Labour.

I have a feeling he is going to do the old Liberal Party of Canada/Conservative Party of Canada trick of again making sure the immigration system works in a way to exploit vulnerable foreign workers, create alienation/division in the working class, and overall suppress workers solidarity/bargaining power. All to emphasize cheap exploitable labour.

Immigration should be a place of respect, kindness, welcoming, solidarity, and so on. Not a weapon of the capital/business lobby class against the working class and most vulnerable affordability of life/quality of life.

(Also have to end with something that is off-topic. We are hitting countless tipping points related to Climate Change. We are in a massive crisis trajectory that is going to make the affordability of life crisis/quality of life crisis of the working class and most vulnerable horrifically worse. We have to keep being loud about this because we have some bad predatory actors that are honestly a Death Cult at this point.)

To start off I am a newbie. I am midlife and I have some basic technical awareness/education but I am by no means extremely well informed in the artificial intelligence sphere.

I know terms like LLM, AGI, ASI, RSI, and such.

I know the major players involved and what emphasis points differentiate the work.

In general I am the regular outside observer in this whole thing.

You may also see this post in some other places as I know every community has their own identity and set of perspectives. I am trying to get a bit more substantively informed on this topic and so I want to get a broad set of opinions.

When it comes to artificial intelligence, data centers, and so on there has been a lot of media in the last few months/years.

There is talk about how natural gas/hydrocarbon powered data centers may worsen the climate crisis.

There is talk about domestic/international surveillance and militarization.

There is talk about Tech Bros and a new type of Neo-Feudalism.

As of recently the big talk is about the Hugging Face incident, rogue agents, researchers/ceos warning about an existential risk, and slowing down/regulation.

There is a varying set of opinions and perspectives on all of this.

My question is a bit different - Are we falling into an anthropocentric bias?

Of course it is completely normal to think from our own species interests but if we really are going to create AGI/ASI this seems incredibly shallow & silly.

The idea of attempting to enslave a sentient being and especially one equal to or greater to ourselves is again seemingly quite shallow & silly if not downright horrific.

I had heard that Anthropic was out of the major players the one focused on a more moral/ethical approach. I lightly browsed through their policy releases and it again seems to be from a human only perspective of values/interests.

So are we kind of missing a huge dimension of this topic? Should we not be thinking/talking about the artificial intelligence existence side of things?

I am around mid life at this point and things across the world have seemed to completely come off the tracks.

It use to be that most people really valued the Labour Movement (Unions, Federation of Labours, Labour Councils, and so on).

It use to be that most people really believed Women's Rights was important.

It use to be that most people really believed the Peace Movement was really important.

It use to be that most people really believed in making a better world overall for all the working class and most vulnerable (Alter-Globalization Movement).

People got really loud about this stuff when it was under attack.

AfD is showing huge poll numbers and now has a landmark electoral success to point to.

Reform UK still has fairly high poll numbers.

It's the same story all over the globe.

Also the climate crisis is so dang bad that we are literally seeing horrific tipping points and hell on earth type stuff now more and more...

It kind of feels like the worst bad predatory actors have completely destroyed the momentum for a better and brighter world.

It seems there is so many trajectories going on that are more dark, depressing, and downright dystopian...

How do you think we get things back on track?

*I'm going to post this in a few subreddits to get some differing perspectives/answers. Honestly we need more urgency because it seems one side actually keeps pressing the line over and over and over again in big ways and all the concessions are going to the lowest common denominator style populism of the reactionary/regressive scene dominated by snake oil salespeople and con-artist grifters. Which is going to make everything hard about this era significantly worse.*

The working class and most vulnerable of the world but even in the richest and most developed nations have been facing a horrific cost of living crisis/quality of life crisis for some time now.

Even on foundational elements like housing and food...

Alongside this a sphere of reactionary/regressive lowest common denominator style populism kept being fostered and fostered by some of the worlds most Ultra Rich Powerful Predatory Bad Actors of varying disgusting types...

Now the world faces a POTUS who is a stereotypical snake oil salesman.

Now the world faces a White House administration that is full on con-artist grifters.

Many of us know that we are currently in an "Everything Bubble". The divide of Wall Street and Main Street is at extreme horrendous levels.

No one knows when this is all going to come crashing down but the reality all of us know is that Trump & His Cronies are planting countless seeds in countless fronts that are going to make the Affordability Of Life Crisis much much much much worse down the road.

As a progressive/leftist voting is really many times just about choosing your opposition.

Having the worst of the worst of Fascists, Oligarchs, Multinational Business Lobbies, Powerful & Predatory Industries/Tycoons, and the general Corporatocracy in power all at once is a Death Cult for the working class and most vulnerable.

We all need to develop networking and solidarity movements not just domestically but internationally. With these types in power things are going to continue to get much darker, dystopian, and depressing. Especially closer and closer to election periods.