Software Developers Attacked by Plagiarism Engines Because These Developers Can Teach People How to Exercise Control, Not Outsource to Monopolies of Slop and Back Doors
Last week: "LLMs Are Not Much More Than Plagiarism Engines"
The last (or latest) part in The Cyber Show's series on The Fight Against Technofascism speaks of empowerment through code, or controlling code rather than merely 'consuming' it (via blackbox LLMs or proprietary software binaries). To quote Andy:
This writing, "Why I Code", exists to emphasise the clear political reasons for developing skills in code.Lately I have read many accounts of people who are "getting out of tech". The assault of "AI" and Big Tech social control media has ground them down to the point of feeling no joy or hope from their work. That's understandable and for those who joined-up for an easy life and good salary getting out makes sense for health reasons.
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This point must be hammered home by education. Those teachers trying to tell children that they "no longer need" to learn coding - because "AI" mumble mumble hand-wave - are (knowingly or not) tricksters playing their part to sabotage a generation.
Rather than following their hearts some teachers today just follow orders. They must contend with the policies of education authorities rather than follow what they believe is right. That does not just make them bad teachers, it makes them worse than no teachers at all.
Education authorities follow government policy, and the policies are strongly influenced by industry lobbyists who dictate to governments what "industry needs". In Britain this mechanism for capitalists to steer society goes by all sorts of names like "skill-set academies" where the excuse for allowing industry to set the education agenda is "preparing young people for jobs". In doing this we make our children sacrfices before the beast of big international business, not to serve and better their own communities. Teachers unions are fighting back and we should listen to them.
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Universities should be telling industry what is to be done next, not the other way about. Present education policy has the tail wagging the dog.
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If there are "grown ups" in government, they are terrified of losing power and so cling to the hypnotising promise the technofascist cult offers them… social control. The ability to win elections, and hold on to power by manipulation is seductive to all but the morally iron-willed.
If this stagnant power stasis is to be rebooted, it needs disruptive innovation to come from outside the government-industry covenant. It needs disruption by the people and a markedly distinct spiritual agenda.
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That s a battle we win not by directly confronting the old order but by completely replacing it with new and better technologies that serve people not corporations.
One examples of such "better technologies" (controlled by no corporation) is Gemini Protocol, which Andy is prioritising lately. █
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