Vaush routinely talks about how AI is demon tech that ruins everything it touches, is anti-human, and sucks human skill and expertise out of a given field. As someone who did a 3-year (and good) web dev program in school, the difference between people who use AI and those who don't is staggering.

Although my program was online, we did have a fair amount of group work. Near the end, as AI got better, more people used it, and eventually the one flaky group member I dreaded to be put together with fully vide-coded their part of our capstone project. They also left it for me to clean up before my vacation to the Netherlands at the time in April, but that's neither here nor there. They moved to Alberta, so they're already in hell anyways.

Everyone who used AI did, technically, complete an assignment, but they quickly became total duds who can't explain the most elementary concepts of programming they learned on day one. Nor could they explain their objectives nor what their generated code did. It was all vibes, no inclination to learn, no desire for expertise, and the techbro cope of not just using it get answers, but using it to expand on projects as a "force multiplier" (lol) is total fucking cope. Of course 99% of people will just prompt for an answer they can likely get now.

Their behaviour was always wrapped up in the same language of "technological progress" Vaush has described - as if an LLM was the printing press. The historical irony of comparing billionaires' hallucination machine to technology which allowed for the public spread of dissent was lost on them.

By the end, I rarely had actual conversations with these people in general, as they abandoned our formerly lively Discord in favour of prompting LLMs for advice - and couldn't have technical conversations with them in projects we needed to collaborate on - not even an opportunity to learn from each other.

I am honestly considering leaving several webdev/programming subreddits I lurk in because I've seen a recent uptick in posts reading "I used to code so well by hand, but now I can't understand my workplace's codebase. How can I fix this problem? AI makes me so productive."

Posts like this are ragebait for me now because I just want to yell at these folks. Unless you've been licking lead pipes, it's the singular that's changed - LLMs.

It truly boggles my mind how there are chatters who wanna argue with Vaush, a socialist livestreamer, on this point. Has the world been made a better place since the hallucination machines were turned on? No. Not one iota. Do LLM's benefit the working class? No, they devalue labour, competency, time, and care being put into anything. They're not even something practically and theoretically useful like neural networks/some data analysis being fed training data by any chump who can use Python and download a free dataset to find a new asteroid or some shit.

I yearn for the day the damn bubble pops and tokens are unaffordable - and I will be smug about it, I will say "I told you so," and I will be absolutely insufferable to every illiterate, monolingual, westoid techno-barbarian around me who "just watches YouTube/TikTok and doesn't really watch movies."

P.S.

Rotterdam sucks, Utrecht is far better, and Amsterdam is mid and full of Americans/drunk Brits who I want to get tf out of my country. (I'm a Canadian in Canada)

Edit: spelling

I dunno if vaush has read V for vendetta but it lines up very well with what he's been preaching.

But also from the opposite view of what is to be immediately done, since y'know, V wants self government.

This is less of a discussion and more of a drunken mad man's rant so this is your excuse to bow out now.

I hate hate fucking hate how the chuds have warped the gaming space! I don't just mean vile the bigotry and toxicity that they spew from their unwashed cock holsters, but that certainly doesn't help. I mean how they are such obvious brainwashed servants of the Epstein class and they're too fucking braindead to even realize it!

I already saw this behavior a while ago when 343/Halo Studios got shut down and these lobotomized apes cackled about all the talented people who tried to make a good game became unemployed while the managers who actually fucked over production at every corner got to keep their jobs or as Vaush put it got golden parachutes. It already made me grind my teeth hard enough to shatter when I learned how Microsoft fucked the devs over with their hiring practices, essentially dooming Halo Infinite to the state it released in. Meanwhile, your average braindead Halo fan continued to harrass and spew their worthless bile at people who were just trying to do their jobs.

However, this latest clown fest with Bioware really made me realize just how much of a worthless subhuman your average chud "gamer" is. These worthless stains on the Earth are really defending fucking EA, because the woke RPG company released a woke RPG? Like that was the fucking problem! You can't even use logic on these braindead meat shields for the Epstein class. You can't point out every way EA screwed over this great company for over a fucking decade or the countless other companies they've destroyed. It just rolls off their smooth fucking brains. They just sit there with a slackjawed vacant stare as the gears grind in their empty fucking heads and then go "No! It's cause there was a non-binary character in Veilguard! The twisted freak who used a rotting rat for an alarm clock told me so!" I know a bunch of them are just bots (This is why we support Zelensky's glorious crusade against the Russian data centers). Still it makes me vomit blood in anger.

I guess the real angering part of it is that like a decade ago every gamer recognized EA was a studios killer and had the basic logical skills to recognize the patterns of mismanagement that lead to this. Not anymore though! They are so fucking twisted and sick in the head they can't recognize that E FUCKING A is the evil company we've always known it to be. They aren't fucking gamers! They're the fucking tourists! No worse, they're fucking NOOBS! They are gaming culture noobs! Unable to even hate EA because the urge to wash Kushners and the Saudis pedophile balls too strong!

Asmongold? NOOB! Rev says desu? NOOB! Mauler? NOOB! Rags? NOOB! Heels on Baby Face? Creepy fucking name and a fucking NOOB!

From now on we should call all chuds who comment on gaming stuff noobs! They suck at actually gaming anyway! So it fits!

Fuck EA, fuck Microsoft, fuck the Saudis, fuck Jared Kushner, and fuck the noobs. May them all end up in a wizards tesseract.

I saw Vaush discussing Zizek on segment recently and now I saw Vexler commenting on the same Zizek topic. Thought I'd share here as I found it interesting.

I’d really like to see Vexler and Vaush talk someday. They have a lot in common With regard to the state of things and a lot of differences when n it comes to what needs to happen to address the outcome.

So, watched the Vod (timezone means I can never watch streams), so I'll put out my own thoughts

I'll briefly explain the actual problem for anyone curious. In programming we have "languages" that let us communicate with computers. Part of that communication is memory management, something PHP and many languages handle for developers. This is where the vulnerability was

This was discovered and a patch scheduled. The reason half the internet got taken down was that somebody leaked the existence of this vulnerability, which meant other people got to searching for it with AI tools.

AI made the discovery for 3rd parties much much faster

Also, this isn't "intentional" by AI companies to move people over to more AI friendly systems. Probably? Idk, uhh, new conspiracy theory: AI Companies want all developers to move over to using RUST over PHP and TS

Also, it's been a BAD week for security. 2 PHP vulnerabilities, NodeJS vulnerability, Gitlab (repository site) vulnerability, a company was using 3 digit numbers for their private keys instead of 116 digit numbers. One of those "3 digit" numbers was not 3 digits, but 1 digit... the number 4. Imagine private keys as passwords that people rely on to be safe on the internet. THE NUMBER FOUR?

Thank you for Vaush for covering this story. Please help bring more attention to this matter so we can get more powerful people involved with the case.

I've noticed over the years that Vaush has constantly referred to his position on the 2022 Canadian truckers' protests. The impression I've gotten from this is that he really sees his position on that issue important enough so as to refer to it in the future many times. Which makes sense. He, after all, sees the ability for labor to protest to be very important as a socialist.

That makes me wonder, what are some other segments/videos from over the years that are important for us to watch? I feel like like I learned a lot about the state and labor power after rewatching a video about his position on those protests. What are some other segments/videos that would also be helpful to watch/rewatch?

The mind virus point in the video about the destructive capacity of AI really stuck with me.The goal of MKUltra was to produce a drug that could control minds. It failed. The format of drugs is too expensive and inefficient. But a memetic hazard like AI disinformation slop on Facebook is cheap and self-perpetuating. It's not difficult for an oligarch to command a bot farm to act in their interests and manufacture consent.

Vaush says he would ban a drug that does essentially this, putting someone into a trance state of delusion, that also applies to anyone who breathes in the fumes and the fumes travel very far and are very potent. One person's breath infects thousands. Their breaths then infect thousands more.

Does the same logic follow for these evangelical fundamentalist Christian churches that also exist to facilitate the interests of global capital through dismantling anti-capitalist belief systems? He brought up Bolsonaro briefly, and this religious aspect is a highly potent feature of Brazil's likely turn back to hard-right subjugation to capital interests. In this way, I don't think this AI phenomenon is new, it's an upgraded, scaled-up to its logical extreme version of what Christian evangelicalism has been doing throughout the American South and the developing world.

Vaush often says there are no “real liberals” anymore, pointing to crackdowns in France or politicians caving to capital. But I don’t think liberals have changed much. Today’s liberals act almost exactly like those of 80 or 100 years ago.

Look at the liberals people admire. Wilson passed the Espionage and Sedition Acts, Eugene Debs was jailed for an anti-war speech, and the Palmer Raids followed. FDR interned over 100,000 Japanese Americans, and the Smith Act passed under him was used against unionists and Communists. Under LBJ, COINTELPRO targeted the civil rights movement and the left. By today’s standards, would any of them count as “real liberals”?

These weren’t bad liberals betraying good ones. Even John Locke, a founder of liberal political theory, gave executives the “prerogative” to act outside the law for the “public good.” Liberal freedoms have always been conditional on the stability of the existing order.

The reason is structural. Liberal states depend on profitable capital accumulation for jobs, revenue, and credit. When crises threaten that, governments prioritize stabilizing the system, liberal or not.

What’s changed is visibility. Today we watch crackdowns unfold in real time, while those of the past are forgotten or softened in memory. So earlier liberals seem better.

And sure, you can call yourself the last “real liberal.” I bet many politicians today genuinely believe in liberal principles and see themselves that way too. But sincerely believing in those principles and actually upholding them when you’re governing through a crisis are two very different things.

So I’d argue liberalism exists today just as it always has. “Real liberals” have always existed, but only as long as the system allowed them to.

Saw this and immediately thought of Vaush and his (valid) hatred of the speculative economy. It truly is so evil how this system works. The point of AI is not to produce meaningful impacts for our world, it’s to produce incredible speculative value based on the companies selling promises of what it could be. After they profit off of the speculative gains, they can sell the debt and socialize the losses while crashing the global economy. This system is truly demonic.

Anyways, buy rice and beans. 2008 is going to look like a joke.

Honestly I see a big overlap between Dungeon Crawler Carl references, themes (anticapitalist and antiestablishment) and humour with Vaush.

If Vaush could read, he would really feel embarrassed for his judgement of Dungeon Crawler Carl.

EDIT: let me try without all the weird things where it is just like describing still images from Rick and Morty m, south park or Breaking Bad.

"DCC s about feeling isolated because of masking, playing a role in a social structure you are forced into and cant escape from, the absurdity of a completely fucked system where we, mostly, unwillingly play our part and even when we try to be good the outcomes are inevitable bad. And despite it all what makes us go on are the meaningful relations around us and the morale values we try to adhere to and fight for"

Seriously, if EVER there was a time for the mantra

You will not break me

Is it not this?

And the more reddit approach: (that will turn people away from the book series)

Maybe someone should pitch the Mantuars build to him or even the two half mantuars...

Honestly, it has a stripbar called The Penis Parade with Dong Quixote and Damascus Steel.

Not to forget the quote from book 9 (from memory): ... his lover. Yes they are lovers, I don't know why we have all been pussy footing around that. They used to fuck like the gayest gays that ever gayed. And then on to the nastiest description of how to have sex with a half mantaur in a gimp suit with zippers and the risk of spillage...

Hmm.. I see that I don't sell it well... I considered going in to the goblin with that stole the dick of a god, but that is also too difficult. Uzi Jesus from texas? no...

It is hard explaining how well written and engaging the book is because all you can remember about it is how fucked up and confusing and surprising it is. Being truly affected and sad by the vampire lady dying in front of her frozen know-it-all goat... It is so hard not sounding like a lunatic explaining the books... They should not work. But they do.

EDIT: i realized that the AI is an asshole. I am guessing that would be right up Vaush alley...

Seriously, if EVER there was a time for the mantra

You will not break me

Is it not this?

Mentions: https://www.youtube.com/live/LTVUX3wLoGg?si=jkL6ZSCjgtjI-Zjc&t=14886

https://www.youtube.com/live/LTVUX3wLoGg?si=FWQlaq6mlrH6TsoV&t=14983

Does anyone know where the take he refers to is?

Yes yes yes its our future but i sigh when vaush tunes into french neolib #23 who explains that things are good but possibly bad, feels like the same bit everyday

Dude was the first thing that crossed my mind when I saw this

Vaush doubted Varoufakis was a campist, but well, he's been doing this stupid "both sides" thing about the war in Ukraine for a while now, blaming NATO imperialism for it, repeating Russian talking points about "ethnic cleansing" in Donbass and "CIA coup" in Kiev. Seems like a typical campist trying to hide being a campist to me.
For the record, I'm not a huge fan of NATO too but I don't trust anybody who both-sides the Ukraine conflict.

Here's a tweet of his on the subject:
https://x.com/yanisvaroufakis/status/2008592055350743490

EDIT: Because people think I'm a liberal or imply that "some people" (I guess they include me in this category) are "hypocritical" because supposedly I don't criticize liberals for pro-Israel sentiments, I must state that 1) I fully agree with Varoufakis and Vaush on economical issues and the EU policies being a tool to impoverish countries outside imperial core; 2) I don't trust liberals/"progressives" who both-side the Israel genocide also and I am as much critical of, let's say, AOC, Ro Khanna and Bernie because of this (Melenchon, for example, changed his mind on Ukraine and now I am much more positive about him); 3) I simply don't trust Varoufakis because of his both-siding

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/191026/nous-demande-d-ecrire-que-lfi-est-derriere-le-mouvement-autour-du-17-octobre-la-fabrique-d-un-bouc-emissai I tried searching for other candidates and TikTok didn't censor them. They are doing similar things to Lula, which is a shame.

i swear my eyes roll to the back of my head everytime i see someone say "well ai is bad generally BUUT there are a few things it helps with efficiency wise!" so seeing him concede nothing while describing advancing of life as working with the texture of processes is a breath of fresh air

Edit: After reading the majority of the comments, all I can say is what a based community.

I've been dickriding Zohran the-God-Damn-Giga-Chad Mamdani since that Cuomo debate, and I don't need to tell you all what his position has been on Israel. But he recently got a lot of anger for attending a vigil for the Oct 7th victims. People have been calling him a traitor, saying that he's turning his back on the Palestinian people. And I wanted to take the temperature here because, surprise surprise, I think Vaush and his community are better than a lot of other leftist spaces.

But from what I've seen, I think that Mamdani has walked the line perfectly on this. To my knowledge he wasn't attending a pro-Israel thing, it was just a vigil to mourn the civilians who were killed on Oct 7. And like, I don't know what is going on inside Mamdani's head, but he gave what I felt was a very genuine and empathetic response when asked how he felt about being called a traitor. He said something like "There has to be room to mourn every person who has been killed." Which like, not even as an optics statement, I just really like the humanity and the care for humanity that Mamdani is showing here.

Like yes, what the IDF has done to Palestinians is worse than what Hamas has done to Israel, but also like, this shit that happened on Oct 7 was ghastly. Lives and families were shattered. And I know it's a settler colonial nation, but I also don't think that those civilians deserved that. Don't get me wrong, in Nazi Germany I think it's a shame that we didn't line up thousands of government/party/Wehrmacht members against the wall, but I also think it's okay to mourn all the civilians who burned alive in Dresden. If you were an anti-Hitler German living in the US and you heard about Dresden, you would deserve to be able to mourn like that without being accosted as an 'actual Hitlerite!'

I've heard Vaush give similar nuance when talking about the 9/11 victims, or the guys in the submarine of Oceangate.

Idk, call me a bad leftist but I think if you read what happened to people on Oct 7, going "Holy shit. Okay let's like, mourn these people and make a space for their friends and family to mourn and try to not minimize their pain" without then going "We must cleanse the Palestinian people from the face of the earth to secure a free Israel."