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Re: xAI

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Post by stubybubs »

blitz_skull wrote: post #41
vippy wrote: 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.

What makes him a fascist exactly?

Oh you know. Stuff like limiting voting rights to people with children.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/elon-musk-appea...

Re: xAI

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Post by jackmott42 »

kstrauser wrote: post #16

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, now this reads like a list of people to avoid in any future tech ventures.

Re: xAI

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Post by riffic »

bozhark wrote: post #66
Animats wrote: post #51

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

Drugs aren’t why people are shitty. They’re shitty before the drugs too.

that qualification really depends on the drug because they vary wildly in effect from one and another.

Re: xAI

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Post by SerpentJoe »

flangola7 wrote: post #36
vippy wrote: 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.

I am so so so glad people are seeing this human shitbag for who he is. I've been telling people for years he is an egomaniac bastard with a cult of personality.

He's shown us his character as a leader so many times at this point. When he called Vern Unsworth "pedo guy", I didn't know how to square it with my image of him, so I mostly forgot about it. Took a while to realize it's who he is.

Re: xAI

#76

Post by smrtinsert »

The question is whether they will start quitting once he asks them to guarantee his "freedom of speech" in the inferences.

Re: xAI

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Post by jackmott42 »

blitz_skull wrote: post #67

I just want to see a definition of done. What the hell does it even mean to “understand the true nature of the universe”? What makes us think we can understand it? How would we know if we could or could not?

I would guess it means trying to use AI to come up with an overfit grand unifying theory of physics.

Re: xAI

#79

Post by lambdaba »

flangola7 wrote: post #52
lambdaba wrote: post #27

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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.

Yeah it is. I was specifically asking if the poster knew the details because I didn't. It's just that I suspect that many don't.

Re: xAI

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Post by kmeisthax »

anonzzzies wrote: post #54
kstrauser wrote: post #16

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…

Twitter is crack cocaine for narcissists, who are also vastly overrepresented in leadership roles[0]. Musk[1] buying Twitter was like buying out the cartels making the cocaine and then just dunking yourself straight into a vat of drugs.

[0] If you can get into leadership before people find out you're a narcissist, of course.

[1] No, I don't know for certain if Musk is a narcissist

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