SocietyFaced with growing frustration, many less skilled workers are trying to break out of their passive stance. They analyze the causes of their poor financial situation and undertake heroic, individual attempts to improve their lot. The problem is that they operate solely within the rules imposed by the capitalist system. Due to limited class awareness, they rarely realize that the system is designed to exploit them. Instead of questioning the rules of the game, they try to play it even harder.
Oleg T. Palamarchuk's article 'Интеллект в помощь интеллекту' (2021) is a classic manifesto of anthropocentrism from a time when multi-billion parameter language models were just beginning to reveal their true potential. The author consistently defends the thesis that thinking is an exclusive privilege of 'protein mechanisms'—that is, humans.
In contemporary leftist and futuristic discourse, there is a strong tendency that can be described as 'technological fetishism of planning.' It is based on the deterministic assumption that the historical failures of planned economy models resulted almost exclusively from the lack of computational power and digital data transmission at the time.
