> LLM brainworm is able to eat itself even into progressive hacker circles

What a loaded sentence lol. Implying being a hacker has some correlation with being progressive. And implying somehow anti-AI is progressive.

> AI systems being egregiously resource intensive is not a side effect — it’s the point.

Really? So we're not going to see AI users celebrating over how much less power DeepSeek used, right?

Anyway guess what else is resource intensive? Making chips. Follow the line of logic you will find computers consolidate powers and real progressive hackers should use pencil and paper only.

Back to the first paragraph...

> almost like a reflex, was a self-justification of why the way they use these tools is fine, while other approaches were reckless.

The irony is off the roof. This article is essentially: when I use computational power how I like, it's being a hacker. When others use computational power their way, it's being fascists.

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_heimdall 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Implying being a hacker has some correlation with being progressive

I didn't read it that way. "Progressive hacker circles" doesn't imply that all hackers are progressive, it can just be distinguishing progressive circles from conservative ones.

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embedding-shape 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Implying being a hacker has some correlation with being progressive

I mean, yeah, that kind of checks out. The quoted part doesn't make much sense to me, but that most hackers are progressives (as in "enact progress by change", not the twisted American version) should hardly come as a surprise. The opposite would be that a hacker could be a conservative (again, not the US version, but the global definition; "reluctant to change"), which is pretty much a oxymoron. Best would be to eschew political/ideological labels in total, and just say we hackers are unpolitical :)

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ToucanLoucan 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Pro/regressive are terms that are highly contextual. Progress for progress’ sake alone can move anything forward. I would argue the progression of the attention economy has been extremely negative for most of the human race, yet that is “progressing.”

	▲	zmgsabst 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		In this instance, it’s just claiming turf for the political movement in the US that has spent the last century: - inventing scientific racism and (after that was debunked) reinventing other academic pretenses to institutionalize race-base governance and society - forcibly sterilizing people with mental illnesses until the 1970s, through 2005 via coercion, and until the present via lies, fake studies, and ideological subversion - being outspokenly antisemitic Personally, I think it’s a moral failing we allow such vile people to pontificate about virtues without being booed out of the room.

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Mashimo 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The typical CCC / Hackerspace - circle is kinda progressive / left leaning. At least in my experience. Which I think she(or he?) was implying. Of course not every hacker is :)