Elon Musk Founds a New Artificial Intelligence Company Named X.AI (theverge.com) 114
The Verge reports:
Elon Musk has created a new company dedicated to artificial intelligence — and it's called X.AI, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The company, which a Nevada filing indicates was incorporated last month, currently has Musk as its director and Jared Birchall, the director of Musk's family office, listed as its secretary. The filing, which The Verge has also obtained, indicates that Musk incorporated the business on March 9th, 2023.
Rumors about Musk starting up an AI company have been floating around for days, with a report from Business Insider revealing that Musk had purchased thousands of graphic processing units (GPUs) to power an upcoming generative AI product. The Financial Times similarly reported that Musk planned to create an AI firm to compete with the Microsoft-backed OpenAI. Musk even reportedly sought funding from SpaceX and Tesla investors to get the company started.
Thanks to Slashdot reader mikolhome for sharing the news.
Rumors about Musk starting up an AI company have been floating around for days, with a report from Business Insider revealing that Musk had purchased thousands of graphic processing units (GPUs) to power an upcoming generative AI product. The Financial Times similarly reported that Musk planned to create an AI firm to compete with the Microsoft-backed OpenAI. Musk even reportedly sought funding from SpaceX and Tesla investors to get the company started.
Thanks to Slashdot reader mikolhome for sharing the news.
Line up, suckas! (Score:1)
Did Anguilla agree to this? (Score:2)
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It's REALLY stupid to buy domains outside of your country's control. I've been burned by this before. You get a cool domain then at some point someone realizes it's a cool domain and they shake you down in order to keep it.
I told them to go fuck themselves. I followed the domain for a while, they never made a penny on it. Assholes.
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Given that Musk now owns the X.com domain again, I'm surprised the company is not "AI.X". :)
Has IBM blocked them from using that in the same way the Ford stopped Tesla using Model-E ?
Maybe it could be 41.X ?
must be a huge government grant coming down (Score:2, Troll)
Takes Some To Make Some (Score:1)
So epic fail.
Who will be standing in 5 years in this field? His Muskiness? I think not.
So, the moratorium on AI isn't happening? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:So, the moratorium on AI isn't happening? (Score:5, Insightful)
“We want a pause on all AI - so we have time to tool up and compete”
The hypocrisy continues (Score:5, Interesting)
Remember when Musk said AI is a "great danger" [businessinsider.com] if not regulated? That there needs to be some kind of oversight [businessinsider.com] because it's so dangerous? That AI is more dangerous than nukes [cnbc.com]?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Remember when he said if free speech is lost in America, then tyranny is all that lies ahead, as he cancels accounts [imgur.com] on Twitter? Or deliberately had Twitter suppress a reporter [imgur.com] who had video evidence of a Tesla in self-driving mode coming to a stop in a tunnel and causing a multi-vehicle accident? Or how he said he'd investigate the U.S. government supposedly telling Twitter to remove stories about Hunter Biden's laptop, then went ahead and removed a BBC story [twitter.com] critical of Modi in India when the Indian government told him to? Or how he said NPR should be defunded because it receives taxpayer money while completely ignoring the billions [imgur.com] he has and continues to receive in taxpayer subsidies and payments?
Grifters gotta grift and hypocrites gotta hypocrite.
Re: The hypocrisy continues (Score:2)
Donâ(TM)t worry, our lord and saviour Jesus Musk will magically do it the right way. All you have to do is trust him, and not tax him.
Re:The hypocrisy continues (Score:5, Insightful)
He just wanted everyone else to pause for 6 months to give his new venture some time to catch up.
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When a fatal crash happens, AI will generate a report plausibly denying that they (cars have pronouns, y'all) caused it.
When criticism of Elon occurs there will be an army of bots defending him on Twitter.
When First Contact occurs via a Space X rocket, bots will pen a nice letter to our new intergalactic overlords to ratify a treaty with X Corp.
Synergy.
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You are citing the NY Post? Another Rupert Murdoch lie machine? Tell your Daddy you need more allowance to read real news sites.
Re: The hypocrisy continues (Score:1, Flamebait)
The NY Post isn't allowed to report on NPR helping to censor a story published by the NY Post? Ok NPC...
You'd prefer I link to NPR talking about NPR's corruption? Or another corrupt lefty news site that will cover for them?
That's not how anything works. All news sites are partisan in some way, so the ones leaning Democrat will never aire NPR's dirty laundry.
So yes, on many topics the NY Post does more journalism these days than NPR does.
If you can't cite any factual errors in the article, then you're tacitl
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There's nothing of any real substance in the article you published. It's about a retraction in a book review. None of it in any way supports your fabulist statement:
"Remember when NPR received tax dollars and not only provided nothing of value, but even lied to everyone by saying Biden wasn't funneling money through Ukraine with his son, and that the Hunter Biden scandal was so fake that they weren't even going to talk about it?
And then the FBI and the media admitted it was all verified and true, an
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The NY Post doesn't report at all.
There is no NPR corruption, there is a corruption narrative pushed by assholes like you.
Do love how you equate "lefty" and "corrupt" though. As usual, the more you talk the clearer it is.
"All news sites are partisan in some way..."
No, so no. All the "news sites" you frequent are partisan in a very clear way.
"So yes, on many topics the NY Post does more journalism these days than NPR does."
Translated, "I'm so stupid that I believe the stupid things I say for the following
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Remember when the GOP had access to the laptop for three years and couldn't find anything incriminating on it, so they just kept saying they had and refusing to produce anything?
It's amazing how well the GOP has protected Hunter Biden from the evidence they claim they have.
Re: The hypocrisy continues (Score:1, Informative)
The only reason the public learned of the laptop is because the computer repair shop tech leaked the hard drive a couple years after first giving it to the FBI.
The FBI sat on the laptop and buried it, while it actively worked to undermine Trump and help Biden.
Imagine if they found a laptop proving that one of Trump's kids was helping Trump launder money through a foreign country. You really think the FBI would ignore that like it did for Biden?
There's a ton of incriminating stuff on the laptop. The DOJ is
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So, the FBI had the data and... what? Didn't publicly publish Hunter Biden's nudes? What public action exactly do you think they should have taken in that time?
Re: The hypocrisy continues (Score:4, Insightful)
There's a ton of incriminating stuff on the laptop. The DOJ is currently investigating Hunter for a gun and tax crimes, since the laptop proves he lied on his background check. Of course, if that actually pans out, Biden will just pardon his son. Probably the only reason the DOJ was allowed to investigate it.
So the FBI is protecting Hunter except when it's the opposite, but also Joe would pardon his son, unlike Trump who would never pardon any of his cronies.
Ok buddy, isn't it time for you to go crush some woke beer cans or something?
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"Imagine if they found a laptop proving that one of Trump's kids was helping Trump launder money through a foreign country. You really think the FBI would ignore that like it did for Biden?"
LOL no need to imagine it, they have Trump kids on audio recordings ADMITTING to it ("‘We have all the funding we need out of Russia’"). So yes, it is common knowledge that portions of the FBI were corrupted by Trump.
https://www.google.com/search?... [google.com]
"...the computer repair shop tech leaked the hard drive a c
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They never even had a laptop. Their lying is so thorough they can even sneak falsehoods by the most cynical people.
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No, but thanks for the New York Post link. A thorough read of that article takes about 15 seconds and makes you look like a total idiot.
Company name (Score:3)
So he named a company after his daughter?
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I assumed the 'X' represented the greek letter.
Musk named it after a beverage; chai?
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Musk has always had a weird obsession with X. From X.com to SpaceX to Tesla Model X (s3xy - thank you Ford for taking the Model E and stopping a bad joke). Must be his genius at work.
Who says the joke was stopped? Next will be model 2, so "2 s3xy", then "2 s3xy 4 ... ". For what? We'll need to wait. ...
If you find that a little risqué, the name used for years for Starship was "BFR". It is good that a company encourages a little fun among their staff. Spaceballs-derived names, fart mode,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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It is not good that a car has a '"fart mode" nor is there any reason to believe it came from "staff". It is an insult to the customer and it hides the simple fact that the cars Tesla produces are garbage they aren't interested in improving beyond Elon's personal indulgences. The latest software release included the ability for climate control to automate steering wheel heating. This from a company that has existed for nearly 20 years. They are incompetent.
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No. This is X AI. His daughter is named X AE, but her middle name A-XII comes close when you shuffle the letters around.
Fuck me I wish this were a joke.
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That's actually his son. Elon has referred to him as "Lil X" which got many people confused as to why he'd be referring to the Old Town Road musician in his tweets.
His daughter's name is Exa Dark Siderail or Sidereal or something similar to that, and Grimes has changed her name to Y (short for Why). Not sure if that's an official name change, but she has said that she wanted to shorten it even further to "?" but the government wouldn't allow that, so there's the implication is that she's probably tried to l
There go the last 1500 Twitter employees (Score:2)
Elon will do it all with AI.
Re:There go the last 1500 Twitter employees (Score:4, Insightful)
So we can finally dump Twitter for good when there isn't anything going on anymore but bots retweeting AI posts.
So... (Score:5, Funny)
It's an AI that demands absolute free speech and honest feedback, but bans anyone who disagrees with it.
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FSD and Hypocrisy (Score:3)
He is the biggest fearmonger of AI, going as far as insulting Yann LeCun, a scientist who has actual innovations contributed to AI development (unlike merely investing in ideas and technologies other people invented.) Elon has been calling for a ban on research by OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Microsoft. Now my question is, if he is afraid of AI then why is he letting it control a motor vehicle? At the same time he said AI is deadl, he also said Tesla Full Self Driving is the most advanced AI in the world. Is it not reckless to put it in control of thousands of vehicles?
Re: FSD and Hypocrisy (Score:2)
Comparing open-ended AI that can manipulate billions of people via the internet to the AI that drives cars is comparing apples to oranges.
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Suuure. Dude did you not see the videos that Tesla employees were trading around the office? Tesla is collecting data including conversations we have inside the car and everything in the garage for employees to examine and to train its AI for "improved customer experience". See Reference: https://www.reuters.com/techno... [reuters.com] Now, even if you trust that Tesla will abide by Terms of Service and never misuse that information, you're telling me that if, as Elon Musk alleges, .. AI can go mad and want to kill us
Re: FSD and Hypocrisy (Score:2)
I agree, companies collecting and misusing personal customer data is bad, and sadly not unique to Tesla. But that's a separate problem from AI.
I'm not concerned with Tesla cars taking over the world. I'm concerned with these types of cars being hijacked by hackers, or even the government, and used to hurt us by people.
If you mean AI is a tool that can be abused, then I agree. But AI still only have the will given to it by its owners. The problem is still people.
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"But that's a separate problem from AI."
But the problem isn't AI, it's Elon Musk wanting to own AI. And Elon's willingness to corruptly exploit customers IS the problem.
"I'm not concerned with Tesla cars taking over the world. "
But likely for the wrong reasons.
"But AI still only have the will given to it by its owners. The problem is still people."
So close. AI is not the problem, it is the people who control it. Elon Musk is one of the few people in the world who we absolutely do not want controlling it.
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Comparing open-ended AI that can manipulate billions of people via the internet to the AI that drives cars is comparing apples to oranges.
Not for these people who purportedly believe that the real danger is that an AI will become self-conscious and take over the world. A driving agent is as good (or bad) for that as any other.
Re: FSD and Hypocrisy (Score:2)
Only because they don't understand the technology. Both nukes and firecrackers release energy when detonated, but obviously they have very different degrees of danger.
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What does "open-ended AI" mean? Didn't know AI had "ends".
"...that can manipulate billions of people via the internet."
Well at least you know Elon's ambition.
"AI that drives cars"
Which Elon cannot deliver many years and countless promises later. There is no reason to believe that a Tesla will ever achieve its fraudulent self-driving claims, so why would we want one of the most corrupt people in the world developing the threat to humanity he asserts that others are developing?
Maybe... (Score:2)
XxX (Score:4, Funny)
420 (Score:2)
Your office will be at 420 42nd street, zip code 04200.
You will be expected to perform 42.0 hours of work for 42 weeks a year, with another two 4.20 week long team-building retreats annually.
Your pay will be $420 a day with a 0.0420% vesting of stock over 420 months.
Nyuk nyuk nyuk nyuk lulz fart sound
Another story... (Score:2)
about the rich wanna-be fascist who still tries to remain relevant...
I swear folks would publish pictures of his morning shit with praise as to its shape and obviously superior consistency, along with multiple paragraphs and an interview with an "expert" as to what Ol' Muskrat's diet might be.
What the fuck is it about this country that gives rise to our absolute addiction to cults of personality? Is it because everyone just thinks these clowns really did something "amazing" to garner their wealth? How many
It's A Scam (Score:2)
There's no such thing as AI. There's also no such thing as intelligence, in general. It's a social construct, like money or time. It doesn't really exist in objective reality. It only exists within social interactions between humans. The pursuit of AI is just the techno-fetishist's pursuit of slaves that Capitalism is built on. (The ideal wage under Capitalism is always $0; that's called slavery.)
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There's no such thing as AI. There's also no such thing as intelligence, in general.
That's gibberish. It doesn't cover reality in any way.
It's a social construct, like money or time.
So intelligence is useless without social interactions?
I need other people before i can use a stick as a tool?
Also, time stops when there are no other people around? I mean, wtf are you even trying to say here?
The pursuit of AI is just the techno-fetishist's pursuit of slaves that Capitalism is built on.
Slavery has been part of practically all human societies before capitalism. It is not something unique to capitalism.
Also, aren't you using your slave computer right now to read this message? Can you imagine what it would be like to transfer the ne
Musk has done fantastic with (Score:3)
On the other hand, his track record with non-physical companies is spotty or abysmal. He made is first fortune with PayPal, but from what I understand he was kicked out for being too random. Do I even need to mention Twitter? An AI company is very likely to fall into this category.
Maybe I lack vision. Musk has proven a LOT of people wrong. But I would prefer that he just focus the rest of his life on Starship and getting mankind to Mars. THAT would put him in the history books for the next thousand years. It would eclipse the moon landings in terms of importance.
Re:Musk has done fantastic with (Score:5, Interesting)
> He made is first fortune with PayPal, but from what I understand he was kicked out for being too random.
I posted a timeline of PayPal on /. a few years back. The TL:DR; is that Musk did NOT create PayPal but he did make his money from it.
Dec. 1998 Confinity was started by Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, and Luke Nosek. Peter Theil becomes CEO.
Jan. 1999 Musk starts X.com
July 1999 Confinity announces PayPal
Sept. 1999 Confinity ships PayPal. Offers $10 deposit for new users. X.Com copies the idea of gifting $20 to new users.
Mar. 2000 Confinity and X.com merge. New company's name is X.com. Peter Theil becomes CFO. Peter Thiel quits the company.
April 2000 Peter Thiel returns as Chairman as Musk called for an emergency board meeting to replace Harris. Musk was named as the new CEO. Musk wanted to phase out PayPal but X.com makes customers think of porn industry
Summer 2000 X.com is highly vulnerable to fraud. Customer base explodes but the website is crashing weekly.
Sept. 2000 Musk is removed as CEO from X.com. Peter Thiel returns as CEO.
Mar. 2001 Musk is terminated from X.com
June 2001 X.com changes their company name to PayPal
Oct. 2002 eBay buys PayPal for $1.5 Billion
July 2017 Musk buys domain name X.com back from PayPal
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"But to say humanity has no future in space demonstrates a severe lack of vision."
Who said that, Mr. Strawman?
It's like the plot of 101 bad sci fi movies (Score:2, Funny)
Evil malignant narcissist billionaire creates an artificial intelligence to think like he does. What could possibly go wrong?
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Wasn't that the plot of Avengers: Age of Ultron?
X is for pedophilia (Score:1)
When he's finished... (Score:2)
... he'll ask it, "How can I destroy wealth in a more efficient manner?"
After a long pause, during which it will wield its incredible power to ponder the question, it will respond.
"I have no idea. You got this. Keep doing what you're doing."
The full name of the company is (Score:2)
Thatâ(TM)s just an abbreviation. The full name of the company is xn--xa-12-sra.ai
because you can only fight AI with AI (Score:2)
LoB
Re: Who cares.... (Score:1)
Why would you post something so inane except just to troll? Or does Elon live in your head, rent free?
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Who is trolling? gweihir? Or the very Elon Musk who only last week signed a letter saying AI research should be put on hold?
Re: Who cares.... (Score:2)
You mean this? https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/31/ai-research-pause-elon-musk-chatgpt
A pause in research is not an abolition of research. Whether a pause happens or not, it would resume at some point. You found companies long before you expect them to turn a profit.
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"A pause in research is not an abolition of research. "
No, just an interruption until Elon can position himself to profit from it. It isn't that AI is a threat to mankind, only a threat to Elon's ability to own everything.
"You found companies long before you expect them to turn a profit."
Elon doesn't. He founds companies when he sees piles of cash he can grab.
Re: Who cares.... (Score:2)
You seem like an Elon fanboy.
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Elon Musk who only last week signed a letter saying AI research should be put on hold
Perhaps it's a good idea to have someone who is deeply skeptical of the claimed social benefits of AI taking on the task of advancing the field.
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Sure. The same Elon Musk who talks about AI making owning a car a profit generating decision and is the only one to have set AI loose with a massive network of mechanical actuators.
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Of course. He wants it put on hold until his new company gets up and running. That's not trolling.
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Here comes all the Elon hate from a bunch of loser keyboard warriors that haven’t done a single important thing in their life.
No one hates Musk for the things he's accomplished.
They dislike him because he's losing his mind and causing a needless amount of harm and damage in the process. But because of his wealth and past accomplishments people are willing to believe he's somehow playing 20-D chess instead of simply behaving like a spoiled brat.
It would be better for Musk and the world if someone could talk some sense back into him.
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"No one hates Musk for the things he's accomplished."
Incorrect, anyone who objectively looks at what "he's accomplished" would hate him. However, the real reason to hate him is because he is a cruel, sadistic, sociopathic asshole. His "accomplished" align with his characteristics.
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lol the left and the right are two peas in the same pod. You're both American, and you're both to the 'right' of many, MANY other groups.
The American "Left" is no shining example of leftism, despite all the foam in your mouth.
You rhetoric IS a sure sign of mental illness though.....
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"The American "Left" is no shining example of leftism, despite all the foam in your mouth."
The "American Left" is a bogeyman for Republicans, not an actual group. Today we have fascist extremists in America, the ordinary people that they dupe, and everyone else. The "Left" is irrelevant politically, it only exists as an enemy in culture wars.
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Wrong. Whining lefties hate Elon because he isn't beholden to them. He can't be canceled. He can say whatever he wants, whether you agree with him or not, and no amount of incessant whining from the usual Twitter complaint crew will have any impact on him whatsoever. That's what people hate about him.
Before he bought Twitter the usual whiners were used to having their way. Now that he took their favorite censorship toy away they might actually have to read differing opinions. The horrors!
Don't forget the whole "real world harm" bullshit. If a Tweet "harms" you, that's your fault. Don't read it.
Oh he was losing his mind long before Twitter.
His obsession with self-driving cars led him to release half-baked software and calling it "Full Self Driving", which has gotten people killed. His stupid belief that LIDAR was unnecessary for self-driving because humans just need normal vision has also harmed safety for his vehicles.
His screwing around with Star Link access for Ukraine has potentially gotten people killed.
His hair-brained "peace proposal" for Ukraine undercuts political support, and therefore m
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"Oh he was losing his mind long before Twitter."
He never had a "mind" to lose, he was always who he is today. What he has lost is control of the narrative. The public increasingly sees him for who he is now.
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"Oh he was losing his mind long before Twitter."
He never had a "mind" to lose, he was always who he is today. What he has lost is control of the narrative. The public increasingly sees him for who he is now.
I'm not certain that's true.
Certainly he would have had his eccentricities in the past, but he's gone from rich kid to rich entrepreneur to billionaire to battling it out for the world's richest human.
I think it's really hard to remain normal and grounded when you have that kind of fame and money.
Re: Elon hate. (Score:2, Interesting)
Exactly. /. just has a lot of left wing npcs that have been programmed to hate Musk. In this day and age, it wouldn't surprise me if they were mostly bots.
I follow his Twitter some times. I don't always agree with him, but he's legitimately funny and a lot more accessible than most billionaires. Him calling out state funded NPR as being state funded was alone worth the price of admission. I used to listen to then growing up, but their a joke now. Just far left propaganda.
And that's why they hate him. He's e
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He's accessible because he's a narcissistic boob just like his hero the former alleged president.
By the way, NPR is only state funded to about 4 percent and that was as of 2017, now it is less. Maybe if you didn't repeat Fox talking points you might mistakenly utter the truth.
Re: Elon hate. (Score:3)
Yes, he's narcissitic just like everyone else who posts their opinions on the Internet. The difference is, his opinions matter, and he has a track record of actually building things.
People like to shit on Trump too. Yet he was the first President in my life time to not start a new war or leave office richer than he started. Remember when Democrats pretended to dislike war? Pepperidge Farm remembers!
Meanwhile, both Obama and Biden became fabulously wealthy through their office *while* starting new wars.
Funny
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Liar. You're the NPC. Give me one example of a tweet you disagree with that he posted since 2020. Tweets before 2020 don't count we know he switched from centrist to rabid divisive right-wing-BS-only around 2020. Dude used to believe in man-made climate change and pro-universal health-care entirely provided by the government (which would have made him communist according to his current clique.)
Re: Elon hate. (Score:1)
He said Alex Jones should stay banned from Twitter because he thinks Jones tried to monetarize the deaths of the Sandy Hook kids.
Even if Jones did that, which he didn't, I don't think anyone should be banned from social media for legal speech. And I don't even like Jones. He's clearly a bit of a nut.
But everyone should have a voice and be able to choose which voices they want to listen to.
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He brought us closer to war than any president since Bush, who brought us into war.
Re: Elon hate. (Score:1)
"Tweets before 2020 don't count we know he switched from centrist to rabid divisive right-wing-BS-only around 2020."
Ok NPC, tell me what "divisive" things he's done. Let me guess, he banned everyone he disagreed with from Twitter? Oh wait, that's what your tribe was doing.
And that's why you hate him. You're a bully and Musk took away a club you were using to whack people.
The Democrats you worship don't care about "climate change", which is why none of Al Gore's predictions came true, and why Obama bought tw
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Kind of funny you keep mindlessly repeating the "you're an NPC" thing .. just like a typical right-wing NPC. lol Anyway:
Musk regular posts memes to annoy or make fun of black or trans people. For example: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/s... [twitter.com] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/s... [twitter.com] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/s... [twitter.com] .. that is three posts within 24 hours that foster a negative attitude towards black people. You may say 'well, that last post is "truth"!' Yes that last posting is a factual thing a black person did. But
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"That's divisive."
The fact is that no one should ever be commenting in this way; it would be divisive if I did it and I am nobody. I'm old enough to know better. Musk has the emotional maturity of a middle schooler.
Musk does it on purpose because he believes expressing hatred, directly or indirectly, is to his advantage. It is not a mistake. Musk isn't the genius he's conned people into thinking he is, but he is not dumb. Hell, Trump IS dumb but he knows how to propagandize hatred too. Hitler wrote th
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"Let me guess, he banned everyone he disagreed with from Twitter? Oh wait, that's what your tribe was doing."
LOL, you don't even know who you're talking to. backslashdot is not some "lefty" and no, no one's "tribe" was banning decent until Musk himself.
"And that's why you hate him. You're a bully and Musk took away a club you were using to whack people."
There are so many reasons to hate Musk, no one would even give that reason the time of day, even if it were something other than your imagination talking.
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NPR is state funded, but he's using that label to claim they are government controlled (see his tweets) .. that is a provably false allegation because NPR was very anti-Trump when Republicans were the government. If NPR was not able to operate independently of the government how could they have been anti-Trump from 2016 to 2020? Elon himself has posted video of NPR being anti-Trump in 2020. Either the Trump administration was vastly incompetent and blind or NPR was not under control of the government. The w
Re: Elon hate. (Score:1)
NPR pushes state department talking points, like the now proven lie that the Hunter Biden laptop story was fake.
NPR absolutely is state controlled. Just because they're used as a cut out by our government, and aren't direct Federal employees, is irrelevant.
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If you agree with something Trump says does that make you under Trumps control? They are doing the things you mentioned of their free will, not under control or orders of the state. They currently appear to do the state’s bidding because they like Biden. If the state was Trump they would tell him to fuck off. In fact they did. They are not being coerced by the state. They are not like the Army or something which has to follow Trumps orders.
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Also, is it not a little ironic for Musk to call NPR "state-funded" when you look at all the money that Musk has gotten through government contracts and programs at both Tesla and SpaceX? Now, I don't think that the government hasn't generally gotten value for the money they have given his companies, but it definitely seems that he's a lot more "state-funded" than NPR. Maybe Musk's Twitter account should be marked "state-funded"?
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I follow his Twitter some times. I don't always agree with him, but he's legitimately funny and a lot more accessible than most billionaires
This is how you know you're reading a Musk shill.
Elon is painfully unfunny and most of his "jokes" are stolen and reposted memes.
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Increasingly, it seems you are actually SuperKendall.
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False. We have achievements, actual inventions .. shit filed with the patent office and publications in top tier journals as first author. Does Elon have any publications as first author? Elon does have have a few patents (piggy backed with a bunch of Tesla/SpaceX employees), but none of them are brilliant. They are shit like modifications to the battery charging port. Reference: https://i.redd.it/rwuw09r6sn6a... [i.redd.it]
The thing is he actually has no respect for people who actually invent the stuff he utilizes. Fo
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While I agree with everything you said, "first author" is not a thing. Inventors are published in the order they are provided and it is merely common practice to list the primary inventor first at the discretion of whoever is doing the filing. Of course Elon Musk is not a significant contributor to any important improvement in technology, he is not a technical person and has never worked, or obtained an education, as one. He is a fraud, to the extent his name is listed it is because of his ego.
Nothing wo
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They also say nuclear weapons are dangerous, but they use nuclear material to run power plants.
Is it possible these things aren't the same?
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False & non-sequitur analogy. A better analogy is this .. make a claim that purple-color people are evil and can't be trusted, and tell everyone it's not OK to have them cook your food lest they add poison, but then be totally OK with having them drive kids to school.
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Yes, that's a better analogy.
AI is a broad term and includes everything from your spam filter to self driving cars to ChatGPT.
Saying AI as a whole is a threat is to say all people with hair are a threat because one person with purple hair threatened to beat you up.
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and who's saying AI is a threat? Elon Musk.
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"They also say nuclear weapons are dangerous, but they use nuclear material to run power plants."
Incorrect. You are deliberately equating diametrically opposed groups by referring to both as "they". What a shitty liar you are.