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Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI

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Post by walthamstow »

vitorgrs wrote: post #733
polotics wrote: post #128

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wow I had no idea the level of discourse on that x website was so low, has it always been like this?

Depends. It's way worse now. But I think the main difference was X Premium or whatever they call now. Basically, if you buy the verified badge, you get promoted on the algo timeline, comments, everything. And people also getting money by views... This affects in two ways, first, not a lot of people want to give Money to elon, and the elon fans want to pay . Second, this also makes a lot of people posting everywhere p…

> And people also getting money by views

Yes, I read this week in Private Eye that two of our frothiest UK MPs (Farage, Lowe) are earning £3k a month from tweets, mostly sycophantic praising of Trump and derision of immigrants as vermin. Top tier content, I'm sure you'll agree.

Re: Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI

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Post by justaj »

josefresco wrote: post #24
PyWoody wrote: post #14

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https://xcancel.com/sama/status/1889059531625464090 , for those of us without an account.

FYI X has relaxed the login prompt (at least for me). You can again see the post without an account, but not the thread.

I'd rather not. I can view threads on Nitter instances without enabling JS.

Re: Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI

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Post by ben_w »

CoastalCoder wrote: post #513
UltraSane wrote: post #483

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I have thought the same thing. Musk can protect himself from the average nutjob but he is working very hard to make the kinds of enemies he will NOT be able to protect himself from.

Can you give an example? I dislike Musk as much as the next person, but I can't think of any major state actors or criminal organizations he'd currently be antagonizing.

The governments of Brazil, thanks to how Musk treated their judges and Musk blatantly favoured people who were being investigated for inciting violence and planning a coup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_of_Twitter_in_Brazil#...

of the UK, for calling for a government minister's arrest and for his "civil war" tweet: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ydddy3qzgo and https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/elon-musk-need... and https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-called-uk-ministers-not-a...

of Germany, as "Germany's lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, is investigating whether Musk's support for the AfD on the platform where he has 210 million followers could constitute an illegal party donation": https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/elon-musk-investigated-...

(also note that the party he's supporting, AfD, is getting investigated for being hostile to the constitution: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-69003733)

of Italy, where he has been warned by "Italian President Sergio Mattarella to stop interfering in the country’s affairs after a controversial tweet on his page asked for judges to be dismissed": https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/01/04/germany-accused-mus...

of Canada, because of what he's doing in so many other places: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/musk-angus-trudeau-poilievr...

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Post by Peaches4Rent »

viraptor wrote: post #657
EA-3167 wrote: post #576

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Come on... endlessly wealthy and wants to do harm? There's only one real, obvious answer: Engineer a plague, or a series of plagues targeting food crops, livestock, and humans. Make something as contagious as measles that kills a third of people reliably, spread it multiple global focal points at once, and you could topple the world pretty effectively. If you attacked the economy and food supply at the same time I do…

> could do entirely legally. > Engineer a plague, or a series of plagues targeting food crops, livestock, and humans. I think you missed a constraint there.

What do you mean I only have 256 GB of memory on my server?

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Post by Paradigma11 »

rastignack wrote: post #769
margalabargala wrote: post #288

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We'll see. After throwing out a few Nazi salutes, Tesla sales have been tanking in Europe.

I don’t think we need to lie or be disingenuous about this gesture, Elon is not known for his hate of Jewish people. I think this obviously fake take helps him. There is enough to criticize in his actions.

Must has spent quite a lot of time recently supporting far right groups. Most likely he picked it up unconsciously.

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Post by FranzFerdiNaN »

rastignack wrote: post #769
margalabargala wrote: post #288

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We'll see. After throwing out a few Nazi salutes, Tesla sales have been tanking in Europe.

I don’t think we need to lie or be disingenuous about this gesture, Elon is not known for his hate of Jewish people. I think this obviously fake take helps him. There is enough to criticize in his actions.

Guy who talks like a nazi, supports nazi parties, boosts nazis on his social media platform does a nazi salute and you still doubt what he meant?

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Post by 01jonny01 »

margalabargala wrote: post #288
dustingetz wrote: post #227

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was looking for a musk margin call in 2023, no such luck, now he’s VP and markets are still fake

We'll see. After throwing out a few Nazi salutes, Tesla sales have been tanking in Europe.

Oh come on stop perpetuating misinformation. Unless Musk is going to Nazi rallies and jew hating I can't take anyone who believes this seriously.

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Post by 01jonny01 »

FranzFerdiNaN wrote: post #796
rastignack wrote: post #769

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I don’t think we need to lie or be disingenuous about this gesture, Elon is not known for his hate of Jewish people. I think this obviously fake take helps him. There is enough to criticize in his actions.

Guy who talks like a nazi, supports nazi parties, boosts nazis on his social media platform does a nazi salute and you still doubt what he meant?

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Re: Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI

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Post by blitzar »

alpha_squared wrote: post #102

It feels like Musk is single-handedly making a great case for why unlimited accumulation of wealth is a bad idea. It's pretty colorful language, but my mind immediately jumps to "financial terrorist". He's using his enormous amount of wealth and influence as a weapon to bludgeon anyone and anything in his way.

China might not have been "wrong" when they put Jack Ma back in his box.
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