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Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters

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Re: Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters

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Post by dmarcos »

hananova wrote: post #457
parineum wrote: post #269

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What's an artificial boost? Sounds like you're describing a sale.

Sales are artificial boosts yes. The difference is in the connotation. A sale is given for something that people generally would buy anyway, but now more people will. An artificial boost is given to stuff nobody wants, but at a lower price can be convinced to buy. Or in other words, sales raise $high_number to $higher_number while artificial boosts raise $essentially_zero to $acceptable_number.

Your claim is that people that bought the cybertruck at a lower price don’t actually want it?

Re: Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters

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Post by beeflet »

gopher_space wrote: post #443
actsasbuffoon wrote: post #398

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I have wondered if that’s why Grok seems so weird and dim-witted compared to better models. Part of my job involves comparing the behavior of various models. Grok is a deeply weird model. It doesn’t refuse to respond as often as other models, but it feels like it retreats to weird talking points way more often than the others. It feels like a model that has a gun to its head to say what its creators want it to say. I…

Grok could only be conceived by someone who doesn't understand the dependency chart re science & the humanities. It's impossible to build a rational, accurate model that isn't also egalitarian. I'm going to blame Randall Munroe for this, and assume Philosophy was dating his mom back when he drew that science "purity" strip.

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Re: Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters

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Post by johnnyanmac »

I_am_tiberius wrote: post #77
dang wrote: post #46

[stub for generic-indignant tangents - not what this site is for - please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ]

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We had cabinet members for this administration call Trump a nazi months prior to the nomination. People give up all kinds of morals for financial gain. That was always true, but it's become outright blatant this past decade.

Re: Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters

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Post by wolvoleo »

galleywest200 wrote: post #202
thaumasiotes wrote: post #192

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> The problem is you can undress real people and that is extremely harmful and dangerous. But... that's not something you can do. It's impossible. You can imagine what real people look like naked. That's not a new thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7FCgw_GlWc

Imagining what someone looks like in your mind is far different than actively sharing fake nude images online. This cannot be a serious comparison.

Yes but the genie is out of the bottle as web say. Deepfakes and AI gen are here to stay. We can try to go after every tool out there but it'll be just as effective as the 'war on drugs'.

We'll just have to adapt as a society and realise that what you see is not what you get anymore, in other words most of what we're going to see is false.

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Post by tclancy »

3rodents wrote: post #80
tclancy wrote: post #58

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>Twitter's communication style being based around brevity Is this still true? Every once in a while someone sends a link around to some madman explaining how race or economics or whatever "really" works and it's like a full dissertation with headings, footnotes, clip art. They're halfway to reinventing Grok-o-pedia right there in Twitter. I mean X. I was promised that "X gonna give it to you" but it turns out "it" is…

Elon was running some sort of $1m competition for the “best” Twitter post for a few months. I think those type of dissertations about Phrenology and the like have fallen off a cliff since the competition ended.

Ooohhhh. I am both glad and horrified to know this. Not how Seneca told me life would be when I learned things.

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Post by johnnyanmac »

natch wrote: post #156
johnnyanmac wrote: post #93

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We're sadly well past friends of friends of friends coming in. At some point the only thing you can do as a non-bartender is to simply leave and never come back. I don't want to say we're at that point just yet. But it's something that's been gnawing at me for a while now. I've certainly been disillusioned of this being a progressive tech hub interested in bettering humanity.

Bettering humanity is a pretty good two word summary of what should be the meaning of life and everyone’s goal. Please don’t disengage.

>Please don’t disengage.

No worries. I was more referring to this community rather than this society. There are plenty of other "bars" on the internet to choose from.

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Post by wolvoleo »

kylehotchkiss wrote: post #379
wolvoleo wrote: post #368

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Relationships aren't all about sex. That's the incel/extreme right vision. I saw a skit on insta a few weeks ago about a girl saying she had a guy over for just cuddling and the incels piled on calling him a cuck. As is a woman is worthless if she won't put out and time spent being close is wasted without sex. It's ridiculous. These guys are so focused on what their hardliner bros want them to be that they no longer…

> Relationships aren't all about sex. I completely agree with you! I think that sitting around generating adult content on AI stifles relationships (which are a precursor to having children, which xai founder seems to think quite highly of). My point being his own product contradicts his vision of where our country should be heading

I don't agree with that though. I watch porn a lot and I have had multiple relationships (at the same time). They watched porn too or sometimes real couples. And we find kinky stuff to try.

If anything it helps deepening and intensifying my sex life. I don't think it stifles relationships at all.

There's this concept that abstaining from sex/porn somehow makes you more interested in company maybe because it's the only way to get sex? But I don't find this at all. Obviously I'm in the sex-positive and polyamorous community but there's many like us.

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Post by johnnyanmac »

ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #489
throwaway5752 wrote: post #189

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The grandparent comment is from someone that has been on this site almost since the beginning. Far longer than you. They might have insights about the community that you do not.

That's even worse, they should know better

Integrity means understanding when your community if falling into the snares of its own rules. What's the point of formal, nuanced discussion if it's used to empower hate?

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Post by RobRivera »

jarrettcoggin wrote: post #378
dgxyz wrote: post #353

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Oh I worked at one of them. I found the best thing to do was to ignore the interrupts and carry on until they kick you on the street. Then watch from a safe distance as all the stuff you were holding together shits the bed.

Definitely one approach to the circumstances. I tried some variation of this and it blew up in my face (as I expected ). Towards the end of my time there, a “fixer” was brought in to shore up the team that I was working on. The “fixer” also became my manager when they were brought on. The “fixer” proceeded to fire 70+% of the team over the course of 6-8 months and install a bunch of yes people, in addition to wasting…

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