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X, the moonshot factory

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Re: X, the moonshot factory

#92
Is this another shot at Elon Musk? Not sure where all the hate for him came from. Was it the hardline free speech direction he took Twitter, reinstating conservative accounts? That seemed to be the downward turning point in his popularity.

Re: X, the moonshot factory

#93

Actually someone described this phenomena really well: we are all tied up (psychologically, socially, economically) by these billionaires and the visions they bring up to us, that we let ourselves seduced by the spectacle, while surrendering our common sense and critical thinking, void of power, action, consciousness. The reality is that, even you fuel a revolution somewhere, there are massive opposing idiots out the…

Even @sama, as much as I respect him and look up to him (for both ycombinator and openai), disappointed me with his attempt at monopolizing AI. At the end of the day, he's looking for his best interest, who am I to comment? :)

Re: X, the moonshot factory

#94

Actually someone described this phenomena really well: we are all tied up (psychologically, socially, economically) by these billionaires and the visions they bring up to us, that we let ourselves seduced by the spectacle, while surrendering our common sense and critical thinking, void of power, action, consciousness. The reality is that, even you fuel a revolution somewhere, there are massive opposing idiots out the…

> there are massive opposing idiots out there willing to kill themselves for being quoted by musk etc. Straw man aside, calling your opponents idiots says more about you than about your opponents.

You haven't understood my message because you are superficial. I don't have opponents, i'm not trying to convince anyone of anything, those are my sincere opinions, it was just an observation and i'm not trying to grow a cult. Don't be so reactive on the internet, it's like winning the special olympics (can we still make these kind of jokes today? .... people either forgot the Internet, either they're born in 2000 lol)

Re: X, the moonshot factory

#95
post #86

Everybody wants to have the "cool factor" of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System Heck, Musk even copied the logo outright.

Wow - has this guy ever had an original thought. The Twitter landing page looks like something from the mind of a prepubescent boy pumped on “xtreme” products of the early 00s

You could say "X Æ A-12" as a child's name was pretty original

Re: X, the moonshot factory

#96
post #81

Why is every rich asshole obsessed with “X”? Disgraced Uber CEO/founde (“TK” — within his inner circle, douche alert lol) with inserting X into their products Twitter randomly renamed to “X” by Elon Tesla car with X Google has some X product, probably. I think their R&D dept is just named “X” Apple had a brief “X” and “XS” phase with their iPhones (instead of just using 10 or 10S)

* x in premium products is often associated for ‘exclusive’

* tesla’s cars were S, X , 3, and Y, for that motivation in particular

* x is a bit of a weird letter in the english language, not super common

* x from algebraic notation

Re: X, the moonshot factory

#97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm told internally at Reddit there's a group called Reddit X working on the next big thing which recently got disbanded.

>the next big thing which recently got disbanded A redesign that only applies to 30% of the website? A new video player that's even more broken?

Shit. Don't give them any more ideas. Just wait until they finish the current "revamp of the awards system".

Re: X, the moonshot factory

#98

Is this another shot at Elon Musk? Not sure where all the hate for him came from. Was it the hardline free speech direction he took Twitter, reinstating conservative accounts? That seemed to be the downward turning point in his popularity.

He also laid off a bunch of people pretty haphazardly and introduced paying for brand integrity.

Re: X, the moonshot factory

#100
post #81

Why is every rich asshole obsessed with “X”? Disgraced Uber CEO/founde (“TK” — within his inner circle, douche alert lol) with inserting X into their products Twitter randomly renamed to “X” by Elon Tesla car with X Google has some X product, probably. I think their R&D dept is just named “X” Apple had a brief “X” and “XS” phase with their iPhones (instead of just using 10 or 10S)

Don't forget about your username.
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