“Responsible physical sourcing is not book burning,” ISBNdb’s site in a section about why it’s crucial to recycle the destroyed books. “It is the completion of a book’s lifecycle: from tree to knowledge to tree again."
“My statements on book burning answer questions about the statements on book burning.”
I mean, I get why books are being destroyed (the spines are cut open as part of the scanning process and it’s too expensive to put them back together at scale/copyright issues), but it’s as the headline says. Not exactly something that generates sympathy. Another problem is they’re all doing it and not sharing the results. Even if they make some godly AI supercomputer, thousands of other companies were doing the same thing on failed projects, destroying millions of books for nothing.
Sadly :( and even our comrades will cheer it on, they think AI is an amazing way of preserving knowledge and the costs are worth it… I am forever techno-negative after this era and seeing the response communists have to it.
tbf this an american industrial practise. the chinese denying the americans a monopoly is relative relief, but otherwise yeh. i’d like to go on, bear in mind though the moment we start talking about our community in the third person it creates the cracks that the enemy likes to squeeze open. just look at db0.
I agree, that’s why I try to say comrades and not cause a split by othering people, there’s a very bad tension but that’ll be a problem under class society always so only answer is solidarity in each other’s problems, which is why I become sad when I see comrades mocking anti data center protests and struggles of people in whose communities data centers pop up.
So, book burning.
They’re going to erase huge chunks of our legacy, aren’t they?
“My statements on book burning answer questions about the statements on book burning.”
I mean, I get why books are being destroyed (the spines are cut open as part of the scanning process and it’s too expensive to put them back together at scale/copyright issues), but it’s as the headline says. Not exactly something that generates sympathy. Another problem is they’re all doing it and not sharing the results. Even if they make some godly AI supercomputer, thousands of other companies were doing the same thing on failed projects, destroying millions of books for nothing.
they could just scan without destroying the books. It would be slower, but you could still use the book after
They’re using similar LLM technology along with X-rays to scan burned scrolls and shit, meanwhile it’s destroying these books.
Make it make sense.
Sadly :( and even our comrades will cheer it on, they think AI is an amazing way of preserving knowledge and the costs are worth it… I am forever techno-negative after this era and seeing the response communists have to it.
the books are the knowledge even scans would be better than an AI model. this argument is asinine and they ought to know it.
For some if China is doing something then it must be worth doing at all costs
tbf this an american industrial practise. the chinese denying the americans a monopoly is relative relief, but otherwise yeh. i’d like to go on, bear in mind though the moment we start talking about our community in the third person it creates the cracks that the enemy likes to squeeze open. just look at db0.
I agree, that’s why I try to say comrades and not cause a split by othering people, there’s a very bad tension but that’ll be a problem under class society always so only answer is solidarity in each other’s problems, which is why I become sad when I see comrades mocking anti data center protests and struggles of people in whose communities data centers pop up.