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If it follows the path of Twitter it will be a "free speech AI" that will censor anything negative about Elon.
There's lots of negative things about him on Twitter right now
Strangely no links to threads.net though...
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#202> 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…
Stop using woke as shorthand because honestly I don't know what it's shorthand for. What other cultures and ways of life are Americans intolerant of? This seems to be at odds with the previous woke statement. This is why you need to use actual words that contain detail and specifics. This entire statement is market speak for twitter gen, a sound-bite to engender emotion that says nothing at all. It is itself a symptom of woke culture. Congrats.
Re: xAI
#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
All hat but no cattle?
It's just that liberals and conservatives alike are both opposed to his projects that have anything to do with transportation around here.
Well, he hasn't actually completed or shown the ability to complete transportation projects in a timely manner.
I wouldn't want Musk half-building something in my city and then just abandoning it
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#204> We are actively recruiting experienced engineers and researchers to join our team as members of our technical staff in the Bay Area. It's funny that after all the talk of remote work, tech globalization and the SF/Silicon Valley exodus in the last few years (including much of it from Musk himself), we end up with pretty much all mainstream AI companies – OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Nvidia, Scale AI, Midjourney, and…
> The technological center of world continues to be a hundred square miles in Northern California If your definition excludes the likes of the entire semiconductor industry for example.
That guy definitely likes it being those 100 sq miles
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#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
What makes you say that? The history of physics (our most successful endeavor in this direction) is very monocultural (by the standard of granularity you are using).
Science was once the domain of Catholic monks and wealthy gentry because they were the few literate people with access to books. Monoculture is not a sign of merit.
> Monoculture is not a sign of merit.
This is a weird position to take in absolutes. There are single gender schools in the UK, and I'm sure if you spent some significant time with those boys or girls, you would recognize some have more merit than their peers.
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#206I can’t tell what this company does. Does anyone know?
It will be vaporware, like 90% of what Elon offers.
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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…
I don't know, sorry for derailing the thread.
Re: xAI
#208Huh. I thought _understanding universe_ would require research in quantum mechanics, string theory, astrophysics… you know - physics. Not _AI_.
I think understanding information, cognition, computation, whether an LLM has the emergent property of understanding, all give us some great insight into the nature of the universe that can be applied elsewhere as well.
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#209Earlier quoted context omitted.
My guess would be PR and myth-building for Elon, et al
I feel like the myth-building stuff really fell apart for Elon after he exposed himself with the Twitter stuff. For a good half-decade in the 2010's he was real-life Tony Stark. Rockets, self-driving cars, clean energy, super unrealistic goals that somehow he kept delivering on despite everyone saying it's impossible, and then then since like 2018 he's just been on a downward spiral. So sad.
I'm curious where this downward spiral is happening. Sure, Twitter doesn't look to be doing so well. Is one data point sufficient for this spiral?
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> 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…
Sure dude. To be explicit. I'm not claiming what I felt/experienced was 'the thruth' or even 'real'. Just think it was for me the most 'clear' vision in my life, and that I feel a mild sadness it was so fleeting.
Didn't mean to be negative toward you, it just reminded me strongly of that passage. Later (in a sequel?) the girl is introduced and she refers to the memory of that moment in a similar way.