The politics in the comments here are really toxic. What’s happening to HN? This is the largest computer cluster the world has ever seen. Can someone please post interesting comments about things I can learn?
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Grok3 Launch [video]
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>For what? There is no ROI at that price point. There is no monetisation potential. I think your whole argument is based on this being true, but you didn't give much argument about why there is no ROI. 400M USD isn't hard to generate...even a moderate ad engagement lift on X would generate ROI and that's just 1 customer. Imagine going back in time and showing every VC how great the search business will be in 20-30 ye…
That's a red herring because it ignores the part where they could have done the same things spending a tiny fraction of the money.
_Could_ they have done the same thing with a tiny fraction of the money? Grok 3 benchmarks are SOTA for both base model and reasoning. By definition, nobody has been able to do the same thing with any amount of money (discounting o3 which has been teased but is unreleased). That may change in the future! But as of now this is the case.
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I'm very sorry if this isn't the case, but this message really feels LLM-written.
It’s gracious of you to say that you’d be sorry, and I did run my comment through 4o (perhaps ironically) which caught a slew of typos and weird grammar issues and offered some improvements. But the robotic sound and anything else you don’t like are my own responsibility. Do you, perhaps, have any thoughts on the substance of the comment?
Also ai generated
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#774The politics in the comments here are really toxic. What’s happening to HN? This is the largest computer cluster the world has ever seen. Can someone please post interesting comments about things I can learn?
Indeed. Nearly every news outlet I follow is slamming Elon. I come here for tech.
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>For what? There is no ROI at that price point. There is no monetisation potential. I think your whole argument is based on this being true, but you didn't give much argument about why there is no ROI. 400M USD isn't hard to generate...even a moderate ad engagement lift on X would generate ROI and that's just 1 customer. Imagine going back in time and showing every VC how great the search business will be in 20-30 ye…
Ken Griffin had an interview where he said something along the lines of the technologies dot com bubble pretty much turned out to be what everyone thought they would become at the time. The issue was valuations grew way too fast and it took much longer than expected for the companies to build out their products.
I think a similar thing is playing out with AI. In 5-10 more years these LLMs will replace a google search today (and maybe be even better).
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Elon's unchecked power at building a model? Or at politics? I always worry whenever I see people telling me how to feel - rage in this case. We are in a political system that is oriented more around getting people to feel rage and hatred as opposed to consensus and deliberation. Elon is the face of that, but it's a much longer and larger problem. Throw in the complete dismisal that anyone not scared of this is ignora…
> Continuing the senseless partisan drive of the 20 years does. I think what the government is going through right now is wrapping up the last political system. The idea that Democrats and Republicans just need to learn how to work together is just wrong. The parties are being destroyed, and I think we should all cheer that. They were built to address the issues of the 20th century, and neither party in the current f…
I might cheer if the replacements weren't objectively worse in every measurable way.
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#779For some ouroborus fun, I attached this whole HN discussion and asked Grok 3 to summarize (with specific focus on the members attitude towards Elon Musk). Here's what it came up with: https://x.com/i/grok/share/CTDC0WOi7RCbEDrm11AJ3PtLM
How did you customize the output?
I have no idea why that page says "Grok’s output has been customized by this user"; I don't see anything related to custom prompts in my Grok settings page. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place?
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> This all by the man in charge of “government spending efficiency”.
Per court filings by the administration, Musk is not in charge of DOGE, nor does he have any role in DOGE, nor any decision-making function in government at all, he is a White House advisor unconnected to DOGE.