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Re: xAI

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Post by [deleted] »

chasing wrote: post #174
jchw wrote: post #131

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Not really sure why this stands out to so many people. I believe the percentage of programmers who are women is something like 5-8%. Even being kind of generous, out of 12 people that would still not make an entire person. Demographics might differ for AI researchers or other STEM fields adjacent but in general it seems odd to be surprised when it's literally how things have been for at least decades. Not saying this…

Every report I see indicates that ~20-25% of software engineers in the US are women. For example: https://www.celential.ai/blog/percentage-of-female-software-... https://www.zippia.com/software-engineer-jobs/demographics/ Provide other data if you think that's wrong.

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Re: xAI

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Post by msla »

lo_zamoyski wrote: post #123
stubybubs wrote: post #71

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Oh you know. Stuff like limiting voting rights to people with children. https://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/elon-musk-appea...

Just because you don't like the idea doesn't mean it is "fascist". I don't find using that word flippantly contributes to intellectually substantive discussion. Frankly, it is lazy. It is better to provide reasoned criticism, but that may require revisiting some assumptions you're making, and that may be uncomfortable. Most people are not especially disciplined in interpreting historical realities through the lens of…

You can make a lot of ideas make logical sense if you create the correct framing, which you did in your post. However, your frame excludes the discrepancy between single males, who could vote, and single females, who could not vote; we can recurse, and say that single females could barely exist in the middle-class world due to social and economic norms which prevented women from getting jobs above starvation wages, and even look further into the concept of coverture, whereby marriage was a union of baron and feme in which the feme (wife) was legally subsumed into the baron (husband) and ceased to have an existence outside the home after being wed.

If all of those things are outside the frame, sure, one-vote-per-household can be made to make sense. However, don't expect others to agree to your restrictive agenda-driven narratives.

Re: xAI

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Post by lambdaba »

jrflowers wrote: post #105
lambdaba wrote: post #79

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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.

I like that you’re familiar enough with Andrew Tate that you feel it necessary to point out that you’re not a “supporter” but not familiar enough with him that you need strangers on HN to explain him to you.

I'm familiar enough with Tate to not be interested in him, but I don't know enough about him why he is such a disaster to have on Twitter. There are many such people, so I'm asking if you know why exactly he was banned and why we should be kept off. Beyond that you don't like him, which I don't either, that's not the point.

Re: xAI

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Post by renewiltord »

raydev wrote: post #157
renewiltord wrote: post #50

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The Texas stuff is working really well. And if I recall, he was expanding California investment at the time he was moving the HQ of Tesla. And Tesla's engineering hub is here in Palo Alto. Overall, I'd say everything there is chugging along.

If it were truly working well, I'd expect Musk's brand new company to HQ there.

I should clarify: working well for Tesla. The AI talent is in San Francisco. There's no single all-things place in the world.

Re: xAI

#185

Post by andreygrehov »

sterlind wrote: post #166
andreygrehov wrote: post #153

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> he rapidly abandoned his promises of free-speech Hm, I don't think that's true. How does that manifest itself? > started to micromanage its moderation to benefit himself Has anyone been banned from the platform? + we are talking about Twitter, right? Elon uses Twitter for fun, it's pretty obvious from many of his troll tweets. Do you have any evidence that people cannot disagree with him when working directly in a…

> Has anyone been banned from the platform? Yes, evidently: https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/15/media/twitter-musk-journalist... > Do you have any evidence that people cannot disagree with him when working directly in a professional environment (eg office, zoom call, etc)? Seems so: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/15/technology/elon-musk-twit... But I admit I don't follow Musk and his controversies very closely, I just lo…

https://twitter.com/donie

https://twitter.com/RMac18

The accounts are doing just fine. Stop reading the news. Especially the ones who are consistently attacking Elon to get their portion of ad revenue.

Re: xAI

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Post by jimlongton »

cma wrote: post #159
kklisura wrote: post #47

Huh. I thought _understanding universe_ would require research in quantum mechanics, string theory, astrophysics… you know - physics. Not _AI_.

AI may start contributing new math and science fairly soon.

The people who could instruct such AI and evaluate its outputs would be domain experts. Without them how would you even start to approach those problems?

Re: xAI

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Post by esalman »

renewiltord wrote: post #184
raydev wrote: post #157

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If it were truly working well, I'd expect Musk's brand new company to HQ there.

I should clarify: working well for Tesla. The AI talent is in San Francisco. There's no single all-things place in the world.

So basically he still can't make it work outside CA.

Re: xAI

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Post by machdiamonds »

Conscat wrote: post #113
anonzzzies wrote: post #54

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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 not remotely the start of what's wrong with Elon Musk. His companies have all been stupidly and impulsively managed and he only succeeds because most of the time he doesn't get sued for contract violation, blocking roads, financial fraud, or wildlife destruction. He was not good with cars, he forced himself into a leadership role at Tesla, made changes that ran over budget, then blamed it on the real found…

- You've mentioned that Musk isn't good with cars, yet under his leadership, Tesla has emerged as the world's most valuable automaker. This seemingly contradicts the notion of Musk being inept in the automotive industry.

- Your claim about Tesla's autonomous vehicles lagging behind competition appears misinformed. From what I understand, Tesla's self-driving technology, which does not rely on high-definition maps, is far advanced compared to most companies in the same space. Moreover, the self-driving team, led by Karpathy and now Ashok, are highly competent individuals.

- To suggest that SpaceX hasn't been successful or valuable to NASA is just wrong. You label the Starship project as 'dumb,' but isn't it a more cost-effective way to launch larger payloads into space? I'm curious if you had similar thoughts when the Falcon 9 was announced? Today, it delivers over double the tons to orbit compared to all other organizations combined.

- Regarding the open letter signed by SpaceX employees, less than 3% of the workforce supported it. The letter primarily critiqued Musk's Twitter activity, which is unrelated to his employees' professional roles and contributions.

- On the subject of the promised 'Tesla bots,' they appear to be progressing at a considerable pace, as evidenced by the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiQkeWOFwmk.

- With Neuralink, the ultimate objective is to integrate human brains with AI. More immediate goals include improving the quality of life for individuals suffering from conditions such as blindness or paralysis.

- Assessments of Musk's technical and engineering aptitude appear more convincing when coming from sources like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/eviden...

I sense a bit of humor in your comment, but I still wanted to clear up a few things. These inconsistencies make me think twice about the other points you're making.

Re: xAI

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Post by [deleted] »

adoxyz wrote: post #96
gooseus wrote: post #33

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My guess would be PR and myth-building for Elon, et al

I feel like the myth-building stuff really fell apart for Elon after he exposed himself with the Twitter stuff. For a good half-decade in the 2010's he was real-life Tony Stark. Rockets, self-driving cars, clean energy, super unrealistic goals that somehow he kept delivering on despite everyone saying it's impossible, and then then since like 2018 he's just been on a downward spiral. So sad.

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