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Grokipedia and the coup against reality

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Re: Grokipedia and the coup against reality

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This reminds me of a joke website I pondered making a few years ago 'provemeright.com'. If you are in a bar and you make an outrageous claim and don't want to back down, provemeright.com has your back! Give us 10 min and we will edit wikipedia and create a website with your 'fact' on it!... It was a funny joke when it wasn't real.

I did this once to win an argument. It was probably about 18 years ago so Wikipedia was a bit slower to take things down back then.

Re: Grokipedia and the coup against reality

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As an ex Tesla owner, I am amused by the idea that anyone thinks that Musk was "good" at running Tesla. Those cars are cheaply and shoddily made, and have probably the worst service experience in the industry. It's my understanding that Musk has only minimal influence on SpaceX. Edit: I would like to repeat the point that I owned one, for four years, during which it had to go in for service 12 times, four of which we…

The next administration (if there is one) should force Musk to take random drug tests and revoke his ability to run SpaceX on failure. I think we'd get to the bottom of what's going on rather quickly if he didn't have the opportunity to cheat on them.

The next administration should imprison Musk. I don’t think I need to elaborate.

Re: Grokipedia and the coup against reality

#53

Interesting that a neutral submission for the launch of and direct link to Grokipedia was just flagged [1] while this highly sensationalized news article goes up after https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45726459

I'm not a fan of Elon or whatever, but I agree with the parent. "Grokipedia by xAI has just launched with 885,279 articles" does not seem like a title that should be flagged.

Re: Grokipedia and the coup against reality

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I'll disregard that person's legitimacy just the same way as someone who would use Infowars, The Free Press, Breitbart, The Sun, Daily Mail, or Zero Hedge as a source.

Problem, people like that are running my government now

Yeah, that's kinda why I see the gap/wall as a problem that needs to be addressed rather than just accepting it as an unfortunate part of the world. Turns out containment doesn't work; these are real people with real power. Ignore them long enough and someone will leverage them to make an attempt at destroying society.

Re: Grokipedia and the coup against reality

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Your comment history shows no evidence of a willingness to engage in a fair debate, and you constantly create straw-man arguments, even in this very comment. No-one is going to accept your "challenge".

So do you have an argument against the concept of Grokipedia?

Re: Grokipedia and the coup against reality

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The next administration (if there is one) should force Musk to take random drug tests and revoke his ability to run SpaceX on failure. I think we'd get to the bottom of what's going on rather quickly if he didn't have the opportunity to cheat on them.

The next administration should imprison Musk. I don’t think I need to elaborate.

I say:

1) Deport Musk to South Africa 2) Nationalize SpaceX & sell Tesla to GM or Ford 3) Pull the life support cable on Twitter

Re: Grokipedia and the coup against reality

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post #37

This reminds me of a joke website I pondered making a few years ago 'provemeright.com'. If you are in a bar and you make an outrageous claim and don't want to back down, provemeright.com has your back! Give us 10 min and we will edit wikipedia and create a website with your 'fact' on it!... It was a funny joke when it wasn't real.

Wikipedia, and it's volunteer of editors are extremely quick at checking edits. In university, we once create a page for my room mate and listed his admirable, but odd quirks. It was taken down in a matter of minutes.

They are quick for checking new pages, not for checking deeply hidden updates to semi-obscure pages.

Re: Grokipedia and the coup against reality

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> I'd challenge someone to provide competing articles on a controversion topic from Wikipedia and Grokipedia and demonstrate how the Grok version is less-factual. Just because it doesn't adhere to your ideology, doesn't mean it's wrong. Yeah, it's too soon to be making claims about misinformation campaigns. The Grokpedia approach should be on the same footing as Wikipedia was when it was launched. Use it cautiously a…

I'm reacting to the top comment when I opened this thread saying that this confirm Musk is "evil".

Can anyone give a coherent explanation of why the intention behind Grokipedia is... bad?

Re: Grokipedia and the coup against reality

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How was my comment hateful? The far right is as indoctrinated as the far right. But I think most liberals don't realize how much of media is left-leaning.

Unintentionally correct, I love it.
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