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Re: Grok3 Launch [video]

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Post by benjaminwootton »

JackYoustra wrote: post #889
braincat31415 wrote: post #880

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I work, and the fact that my tax money is going into a black hole makes my blood boil. God bless Musk and DOGE for what they do. Here is just one headline from today, The Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) on Monday revealed its finding that $4.7 trillion in disbursements by the US Treasury are "almost impossible" to trace, thanks to a rampant disregard for the basic accounting practice of using…

Will you go on the record and say that $4.7T in a year is fraudulent or misspent? I want to be crystal clear with what you're insinuating, because that's a massive amount of money, easily the biggest fraud of all time by a factor of almost 30.

The poster or the headline doesn’t say they are all fraudulent. It says the payments are nearly impossible to trace.

Re: Grok3 Launch [video]

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Post by pmvpeter »

phtrivier wrote: post #169

Off topic, but just in case: is there a good reference on how people actually use LLMs on a daily basis ? All my attempts so far have been pretty underwhelming: * when I use chatbots as search engines, I'm very quickly disappointed by obvious hallucinations * I ended up disabling github copilot because it was just "auto-complete on steroids" at best, and "auto-complete on mushrooms" at worst * I rarely have use cases…

I use it daily for all sorts of things, but one of the most interesting uses for me so far has been self-reflection.

For example, in the beginning of this year, I completed this exercise where I wrote a lot about childhood, past experiences, strengths and weaknesses, goals and ambitions for the future, etc (https://selfauthoring.com) and then I uploaded all that to ChatGPT, asked it to be my therapist/coach, and then asked it to produce reports about myself, action plans, strategies, etc. Super interesting and useful.

By now ChatGPT has quite a bit of context from past conversations. Just the other day I used this prompt from someone else and got back super useful insights – "Can you share some extremely deep and profound insights about my psyche and mind that I would not otherwise be able to identify or see as well as some that I may not want to hear"

Re: Grok3 Launch [video]

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Post by [deleted] »

braincat31415 wrote: post #880
onepremise wrote: post #859

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I work, and the fact that my tax money is going into a black hole makes my blood boil. God bless Musk and DOGE for what they do. Here is just one headline from today, The Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) on Monday revealed its finding that $4.7 trillion in disbursements by the US Treasury are "almost impossible" to trace, thanks to a rampant disregard for the basic accounting practice of using…

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Re: Grok3 Launch [video]

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Post by verisimi »

onepremise wrote: post #859

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> My question is how may of you are actually willing to give Musk more money after the questionable, legal, and ethical behavior he's exhibited while working for DOGE.

Oh yes, far better to give to alt-man, google or Facebook - those are morally responsible companies!

Re: Grok3 Launch [video]

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Post by [deleted] »

JackYoustra wrote: post #886
cryptoegorophy wrote: post #873

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What's wrong with DOGE? How is eliminating bureaucracy/spending a bad thing? This has been done about 100 years ago, research on what happened after. It feels like people that scream the loudest are the ones leaching from the system.

We have a mechanism for that: it's called congress. DOGE is an executive abuse of power that's resulting in national security critical roles being fired and then attempted to be rehired because they're so incompetent.

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Re: Grok3 Launch [video]

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Post by verisimi »

andrewinardeer wrote: post #882
archagon wrote: post #861

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People who buy into Grok are willingly submitting themselves to the far-right propaganda machine. I’m sure it’s nice and tidied up for release, but there is zero chance that Musk will not use this tool to push his ideological agenda given its reach and impact.

So the Rust code it generates for me has a right-of-centre bias?

Your code will list and go round in wide circles.

Re: Grok3 Launch [video]

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Post by NicoJuicy »

cryptoegorophy wrote: post #873
onepremise wrote: post #859

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What's wrong with DOGE? How is eliminating bureaucracy/spending a bad thing? This has been done about 100 years ago, research on what happened after. It feels like people that scream the loudest are the ones leaching from the system.

Well.

Only announce things your opponents do or even lie about it and spread the hate.

I'm 100% sure he won't direct the subsidies during COVID-19 for the hospitality sector, which Trump was quite happy about during his reign.

Or the expensive hotel stays for his security at trump hotels :)

Re: Grok3 Launch [video]

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Post by tim333 »

JackYoustra wrote: post #889
braincat31415 wrote: post #880

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I work, and the fact that my tax money is going into a black hole makes my blood boil. God bless Musk and DOGE for what they do. Here is just one headline from today, The Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) on Monday revealed its finding that $4.7 trillion in disbursements by the US Treasury are "almost impossible" to trace, thanks to a rampant disregard for the basic accounting practice of using…

Will you go on the record and say that $4.7T in a year is fraudulent or misspent? I want to be crystal clear with what you're insinuating, because that's a massive amount of money, easily the biggest fraud of all time by a factor of almost 30.

That's not what he said. He said the accounting is bad making it impossible to know how much is misspent.

Re: Grok3 Launch [video]

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Post by JackYoustra »

verisimi wrote: post #894
onepremise wrote: post #859

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> My question is how may of you are actually willing to give Musk more money after the questionable, legal, and ethical behavior he's exhibited while working for DOGE. Oh yes, far better to give to alt-man, google or Facebook - those are morally responsible companies!

I mean relatively speaking yes, only one of them is acting as an unelected dictator, circumventing our whole constitutional appropriations process by taking direct control over payment infrastructure.

Re: Grok3 Launch [video]

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Post by 29athrowaway »

onepremise wrote: post #859

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DOGE has revealed that 400 million are rookie numbers when it comes to phony deals.

Forcing the government to spend money has always been the infinite money glitch.

On one side you have healthcare and pharma companies making sure everything is excessively overpriced, then they lobby the government to make sure everyone has government sponsored healthcare, i.e.: turn all tax revenue into healthcare revenue. Then they pay the media to convince everyone that it is their moral obligation to subsidize $1000000 insulin while making it a taboo to ask why healthcare is so expensive.

On another side you have mass incarceration where each inmate costs more per night than a 5 star hotel.

On another side you have nonsense conflicts where the weapon of choice are thousands of single use weapons that cost at least 100,000 each. Or to simply leave it behind for the enemy so then it has to be repurchased.

On another side you have tax loopholes of billions of dollars.

Everyone is stealing. Did you pay 30% tax and then sales tax on everything you bought with your income? Is your effective tax rate around 50%? then you worked 6 months for the government so they can take that 6 months of your life and turn it into a dumb single use weapon to destroy a $1 tent.

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