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Re: xAI

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Post by Animats »

gonehome wrote: post #180
kstrauser wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the Bay Area, I'd suspect that the number using weed is way higher.

I'd guess 10% at most, but probably less (on a semi-regular basis, number for those that have ever tried it is higher). There's strong selection bias with drug use because drug users tend to cluster together, I suspect it's a lot less common than people think.

> I suspect it's a lot less common than people think.

Demand is not what the weed industry thought it would be.[1]

[1] https://www.foodengineeringmag.com/articles/99944-price-per-...

Re: xAI

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Post by GaryNumanVevo »

3cats-in-a-coat wrote: post #154
haswell wrote: 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…

- Tesla was launched to transition the world to sustainable energy (not that electric cars do that up close, but never mind). - SpaceX was launched to make us a multiplanetary species. - Twitter was bought to fight the woke mind virus that is destroying the world. - And now xAI will understand the Universe. One of the clear rules of PR for Musk is that whatever he says it must involve at least one whole planet, ideal…

- Tesla was launched to capture free regulatory credits and launder them to the top 3 ICE auto makers, eventually making a halfway decent EV along the way

- SpaceX was founded to capture more free government money in the form of billion dollar NASA contracts / contracts with DOD for spy satellites / etc.

- Twitter, Saudi money mostly

- xAI ?????

Re: xAI

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Post by 3cats-in-a-coat »

GaryNumanVevo wrote: post #193
3cats-in-a-coat wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

- Tesla was launched to transition the world to sustainable energy (not that electric cars do that up close, but never mind). - SpaceX was launched to make us a multiplanetary species. - Twitter was bought to fight the woke mind virus that is destroying the world. - And now xAI will understand the Universe. One of the clear rules of PR for Musk is that whatever he says it must involve at least one whole planet, ideal…

- Tesla was launched to capture free regulatory credits and launder them to the top 3 ICE auto makers, eventually making a halfway decent EV along the way - SpaceX was founded to capture more free government money in the form of billion dollar NASA contracts / contracts with DOD for spy satellites / etc. - Twitter, Saudi money mostly - xAI ?????

xAI seems like a desperate bid to get some more investor's money to indirectly save Twitter, because no one wants to invest in Twitter directly.

I think with all his monkeying around, this time his plans will fail.

Re: xAI

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Post by mullingitover »

numbers_guy wrote: post #140
stillsut wrote: post #128

> The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe. People are misinterpreting this as the research goal. No, it's an implicit negation of an ethos - AI Ethics, Trust & Safety, ESG, Politically Correct - that have dominated decision making in product and hiring in tech for the past decade. Whether or not you agree with him, it's hard to deny that Musk is the only one offering researchers an escape fro…

There is literally nothing wrong with ethics in AI, or any other field of science. What is wrong is this woke supremacist nonsense, that some imbecile in Silicon Valley can dictate the truth about the world according to the woke bible, that's where the problem lies. Americans have gotten really intolerant of other cultures and ways of life. There's 8 billion people on this planet, ffs. We don't need the heavy handed…

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Re: xAI

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Post by caeril »

erlend_sh wrote: post #25

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.

This is terrible. No Italian people, either.

Moreover, it's important to note that five of them are East Asian. That's a population over-representation of eight times. This is a completely unacceptable display of Asian Supremacy in action.

No dolphins or tardigrades, as well. How the hell is their model going to "understand the universe" without dolphins in charge of racking the H100s?

Without a rainbow coalition of employees, the embedding tokenizer for this company will look something like this:

embed_tok("give me a recipe for the best Italian Cannoli") -> [71822, 3, 915, 74, 162, NULL, NULL]

Shameful.

Re: xAI

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Post by jrflowers »

lambdaba wrote: post #183
jrflowers wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> Tate to not be interested in him…

You are interested enough to ask people to explain why they wouldn’t want him on a website.

I’m curious, have you not googled him in the past six months?

If no: Why are you asking about him here?

If yes: Could you make a guess as to why someone might argue that he should be kept off of a social media platform? Just a guess beyond “not liking him”?

If you aren’t capable of guessing a reason beyond “not liking him” given up to date information, you will categorically disagree with any answer to your question.

Re: xAI

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Post by TechnicolorByte »

caeril wrote: post #175
Conscat wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> His companies have all been stupidly and impulsively managed This is generally a true statement, and all of your criticism of his companies is accurate. But what I find hilarious is that HN nearly universally carried his water until The Ukraine Tweet . This site was a unanimous Elon fanboy club right up until the moment he disagreed with CIA talking points. Nothing changed about him, his behavior, or his companies.…

Many people, myself included, disliked him long before the invasion of Ukraine started. Does that put us in your good books?

Re: xAI

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Post by TechnicolorByte »

bo1024 wrote: post #84
PeterStuer wrote: post #68

I remember grasping the 'true nature of the universe' some night in a bar called 'the professor' in the late 80's. No, I'm not joking or being sarcastic. I wasn't on any substances besides a mild dose of alcohol. I just whish I could remember/ relive it rather than the tenuous grip of that moment I still preserve.

> And then one day, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl, sitting on her own in a small cafe in Rickmansworth suddenly realised what it was that had been going wrong all this time and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no-one would have to…

Had to look this up. Really need to read THGTTG one day. Been recommended so much

Re: xAI

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Post by dudeinhawaii »

stillsut wrote: post #147
sterlind wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

are the researchers allowed to disagree with Musk? if the supposedly-objective AI they produce contradicts Musk's views, will he accept that he's wrong? or will he call it a bug, or pressure his researchers into training it to support his ideologies? in short: do you really believe this is Musk producing an objective truth-aligned AI and not just a Musk-aligned AI?

Me sense is its more permissible to publicly disagree with Musk on ideology than any other CEO of a large company in the world. I can't imagine that working at Google, Disney, ESPN, OpenAI, even Y-combinator! What ideological belief does Musk hold that would create friction with his employees?

Is this sarcasm? Right here on HN there's been many articles and discussions that are in complete opposition to what you've written with respect to both being able to disagree with musk as an employee and employee friction based on beliefs.
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