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#121

Why are there no women involved? (Please not trolling, I am curious.)

My guess is that since Musk doesn't like "woke" too much (example in AI context here https://nitter.net/elonmusk/status/1603836383885332480), they don't do the "corporate diversity" thing where they try to evenly include different people in the PR shots. As to why women never made into the team organically, I have no idea specifically. I experienced that in tech, women to men ratio is around 1:10, so if there isn't even a single one in a group of dozen isn't suspicious to me.

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#122

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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…

Everything here is a little bit wrong.

Vscode and Visual Studio are obviously the answer.

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#123

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What makes him a fascist exactly?

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 the day. The result is that we form anachronistic and sloppy views of the past. Take, for example, women's suffrage. If we view the pre-suffrage US through the lens of the radical individualism we embrace today, then we more easily conclude, that 19th century America was a "woman-hating" land and all the usual polemic. But if you interpret the vote as one vote per family, then things start to look differently. The family, and not the individual, taken as the basic unit of society as has almost always been the case, with the husband/father as head and representative of his family and its good in society, becomes the natural voting entity. Maybe you don't like that, or think it needs some exceptions, but logically, this basic idea is coherent and it makes sense.

Now, even if you think Musk's views deserve criticism, you can, at least, appreciate the idea, especially in light of what he's said about demographic collapse and the tendency of parents to be more future- and other-oriented--given that their children will need to live in that future--than atomized individuals, who have a greater tendency to live only in a self-indulgent now (celebrated, unsurprisingly, by New Age). You can expect parents with children to vote in ways that prioritize long-term good in a way that atomized individuals would not. It's harder to not give a shit about where things are headed when you have children.

It's important not to let your sensibilities and biases get in the way of the truth, or to confuse sensibilities with reason.

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#124
post #11

Wasn't X.ai a calendar-scheduling assistant back when non-LLM-based chatbots were, like, a hot thing in the Valley? There's some fucked up irony here that their domain name probably ended up being their most valuable piece of IP, and it gets bought up by Elon Musk to tout his...whatever the fuck this is.

Yup. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=x.ai

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#125
post #11

Wasn't X.ai a calendar-scheduling assistant back when non-LLM-based chatbots were, like, a hot thing in the Valley? There's some fucked up irony here that their domain name probably ended up being their most valuable piece of IP, and it gets bought up by Elon Musk to tout his...whatever the fuck this is.

Indeed, it was bought then shut down. As someone also working in the scheduling space, they seemed like a competitor but it turns out their service wasn't as good as they hyped. I wonder why Elon didn't use his x.com domain though, it's still sitting there. https://www.bizzabo.com/blog/xai-sunset

From the page:

Relation to X Corp We are a separate company from X Corp, but will work closely with X (Twitter), Tesla, and other companies to make progress towards our mission.

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#126
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What makes him a fascist exactly?

The 10 kids while repping on his $44 billion dollar Titanic transphobes, homophobes, etc. I'm not talking about fascism as in "kill all of the people of a certain ethnic group," but there are, if you're in the study of ideology, politics, moral epistemology, etc., smaller, lower-case fascisms before people start calling you "Fuhrer." There is something in Elon's behavior and signaled preferences that very much comes…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation

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#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 from the bowing to the orthodoxy while also offering an A+ pedigree institution.

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#129
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…

That's obviously straight from Elon. He said he bought Twitter to help humanity and started SpaceX to protect the light of consciousness.

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#130
post #98

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That’s really his beef with Zuckerberg. He’s upset he bought old tech right before new tech changed the game, now he’s stuck. Cage matches, d$ck measuring, it’s all the ego of a petulant child upset that he bought a cookie instead of cake.

Cage matches against a Gold Medalist in BJJ is a sign of stupidity unless you are trained in such things. Last I knew Elon wasn't. And yeah he's bigger, but that much skill is hard to overcome. For the cage match I'm team Zuck.

As someone who has studied martial arts and seen video of Zuck, I’m team Zuck as well. Elon, if it ever happens, will resort to illegal moves or cheap shots. If he survives zucks arm bar.
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