What I got from the link is him saying “I’m not transphobic, but I meant what I said”.

In your view, how does the PSL’s structure differ from what you would consider to be a Leninist party structure?

Ok. I’d love for you to walk us through your analysis of how doing that could be organized and carried out, and then what the likely responses would be. Otherwise, you’re just an armchair revolutionary advocating for people to be either killed or spend their lives in prison for… what, exactly?

That’s exactly what this is

I think RCP is the Avakian cult, isn’t that just a US thing? But they’re different from RCA.

They’re hindering Americans’ return to Earth, too, actually

I already accept that you hate people like me.

What the hell does this even mean? Holy victim complex

taking notes

They are running a propaganda campaign more than a presidential campaign. Every campaign volunteer is someone who may join the party, and every signature is an opportunity to talk to strangers about socialism and the failure of bourgeois democracy. And from that perspective, it seems like it’s been fairly successful.

Are you not a democratic centralist org? You’re telling me that when a party chair says to vote for Joe Biden against fascism at the national convention, that it just “depends on the district”?

You’re really not doing a lot to change my perception of your party, here.

You know that’s literally the Democrats’ campaign strategy, right? Same with 2020. So if you’re doing the Democrats’ campaign strategy but you’re somehow not campaigning for them? Give me a break.

My bad, you just keep writing articles about how important it is to vote for them. It’s totally different, you see.

So you door knock for them, and leadership always endorses them. But you don’t campaign for them. Got it.

Respectfully… You’re in the CPUSA?? Should they be campaigning for the democrats instead?

They do those things too, you know.

what should they be doing instead?

Well, yeah, but perhaps that implies they don’t know who the actual communists are, so they will still target the “commie” demonrats

AI/ML research has long been notorious for choosing bullshit benchmarks that make your approach look good, and then nobody ever uses it because it’s not actually that good in practice.

It’s totally possible that there will be legitimate NLP use-cases where this approach makes sense, but that is almost entirely separate from the current LLM craze. Also, transformer-based LLMs pretty much entirely supplanted recurrent networks as early as like 2018 in basically every NLP task. So even if the semiconductor industry massively reoriented to producing chips that support “MatMul-free” models like this one to even get an energy reduction, that would still mean that the model outputs would be even more garbage than they already are.

I’m highly skeptical of this at first glance. Replacing self-attention with gated recurrent units seems like a decisive step back in natural language processing capabilities. The advancement that gave rise to LLMs in the first place was when people realized that building networks out of a bunch of self-attention blocks instead of recurrent units like GRU or LSTM was extremely effective.

In short, they are proposing an older type of model which are generally outclassed by attention-based transformers that power all the LLMs we see today. I doubt it will be able to achieve nearly as good results as existing LLMs. I foresee this type of research being used to silence criticisms of the ungodly amounts of energy used by LLMs to say “See, people are working on making them way more efficient! Any day now…” Meanwhile they will never come to fruition.

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