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Re: xAI

#51
post #20

Five years ago, I would have leapt at this. Today, there's no way I'd want to be anywhere near a Musk-based tech company.

Yeah, I'm not going anywhere near this. Musk had the world beating a path to his door, until he outed himself as a petulant man-child and a fascist.

It may be drugs. Until he publicly outed himself as a druggie, his decisions were generally good. Since then, not so good.

Re: xAI

#52
post #17

"Our team is led by Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX." the same Elon Musk who dropped 44bn on Twitter and fought like a child to weasel out of the sale for almost six months? You mean that same sink-dragging guy who fired everyone once he took over at Twitter, locked everyone out of the office, and unbanned Andrew Tate and Kanye West? People still let this guy "lead" anything?

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There is no way this question is in good faith. The reasons are abundantly clear, and even if this was somehow true ignorance, a single google search will answer it.

Re: xAI

#53

I count a dozen dudes. I don’t think we’re gonna figure out the true nature of the universe via that kind of monocultural uniformity.

That was my first thought too. That’s a lot of dudes!

Re: xAI

#54

Five years ago, I would have leapt at this. Today, there's no way I'd want to be anywhere near a Musk-based tech company.

I really don’t understand this Twitter obsession. In my mind, Musk literally did a Last King Of Scotland type of drama where he proved that too much power for too long will always drive you completely insane. God complex, paranoid, and generally feeling you need to parent the world, even by force. He is not quite a warlord but digitally quite comparable.

He was good with cars, Mars, internet for the masses. Why???

If I could be in charge of, or do real meaningful engineering, why go social media mogul after that; it’s downward and it is lame. So I draw the above conclusions; he went mental with power.

Re: xAI

#55
post #51
post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I'm not going anywhere near this. Musk had the world beating a path to his door, until he outed himself as a petulant man-child and a fascist.

It may be drugs. Until he publicly outed himself as a druggie, his decisions were generally good. Since then, not so good.

What?

Re: xAI

#56
post #26

Five years ago, I would have leapt at this. Today, there's no way I'd want to be anywhere near a Musk-based tech company.

Leapt at what exactly? There's zero information on this page

Look how awesome and important we are in AI, and now we are together

Re: xAI

#57
post #30
post #2

If only Elon hadn't splurged the 40+ billion on Twitter, he could've been stacked with H100's right about now.

The total deal was at 43 Billion. 13 billion is on twitter books. He has pledged to spend 20bills through sale of tesla stock, got a loan of 6.25bills secured by his tesla stock and ~7 bills came from other investors. His tesla stock has appreciated considerably since the acquisition and while he has pledged to refrain from selling any more stock till(I am hazy on this detail end of 2024) he can still secure a loan a…

The GPUs have to be in close proximity with high bandwidth connections to be useful for training.

Re: xAI

#58
post #19

It has been the collective goal of the many fields of science, throughout the history of humankind, to understand the true nature of the universe. There's something that feels incredibly ostentatious about the opening sentence " The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe. ". Not because I think it's a bad goal, or a goal that no company can claim, but because of the broader context around AI and…

Eh, I'm comfortable taking this further and dismissing it out of hand.

This looks like a scam. Not the typical regular person type of scam, but the kind specifically targeted to "wealthy Silicon Valley idiot."

Re: xAI

#59
I wonder if this can understand Twitter. I'm also curious as to how it can possibly "even out" his portfolio even as it tanks in value, and how he got those folk to join up at this stage...

Re: xAI

#60
post #17

"Our team is led by Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX." the same Elon Musk who dropped 44bn on Twitter and fought like a child to weasel out of the sale for almost six months? You mean that same sink-dragging guy who fired everyone once he took over at Twitter, locked everyone out of the office, and unbanned Andrew Tate and Kanye West? People still let this guy "lead" anything?

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Elon is that u?
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