See the thing to remember is those people is that what they accuse the other side of doing, just blind ideology.
It's just a variation of the Goebbel's playbook, which the Trump administration loves to follow - "accuse the other side of the thing you yourself are guilty of".
- Try to rig the upcoming election while yelling loudly about how the other party consistenly cheats - and without evidence, of course.
- Make up stories about how crooked the Dems are, while actively grifting yourself.
Regardless, it's nice to see Congress occasionally showing signs of having a spine, finally. It'd be great if they'd also figure out that the revenge dismantlement of NCAR is also going to cost money and lives.
I'm not even sure if it's that deliberate, or it's just the fact that Trump is thinking about rigging the election... so he talks about rigging the election.
But it's hilarious how consistent the pattern is. Normally with something like that there's just a few occasional examples. But with Trump if he says "Democrats are kicking puppies!" chances are that we're about to find out that Trump kicked a puppy.
I remember reading somewhere that Apple kind of foresaw this coming and purchased extra memory so they wouldn't have to raise prices as long as possible.
It looks like they've reached the end of their extra supply.
SpaceX is worth more than Microsoft or Amazon at this point. It boggles the mind how much people are betting on the future just because Musk is a genius. If he gets sick the stocks craters 80% easily and this $60B is more like $12B.
He's not a genius, I sincerely think he's average to slightly below average intelligence for a software dev. Just look how clueless he really is when he pretends to be a technical guru in front of actual experts.
That doesn't mean he doesn't have some exceptional skills, but IQ isn't one of them.
First, he's hard working, at least in spurts (during critical deadlines), and he's willing to make and implement big decisions quickly. Just look at DOGE, Republicans have been trying to lay waste to the US government for decades, but Musk is the only one to actually do it. It was a complete disaster, but it wasn't ethics or common sense that stopped the previous attempts, that's a legit talent for Musk.
Second, CEOs aren't allowed to lie, but Musk has figured out that you can get around that by building a cult of personality and then making ridiculously optimistic predictions and then sell minor advancements as progress. The result is he has a core group of retail investors that buy his stocks based on vibes and refuse to sell once in. Since these retail investors prevent the stock from going down too much institutional investors also jump in on the ride. It's basically tulip bulbs.
I have updates turned off. Every time I open Fx after a shut down, it harasses me. Then, about a minute later, it does it again. Throughout the day it harasses me.
If I tell it never to install updates unless I choose to, don't harass me.
It used to be like that until a year or so ago. Check the box, never be harassed. Now it's incessant.
Have they removed the incessent harassment notifying you there is an update?
There used to be a time when you checked a box, you were never harassed. Clear, simple, and useful.
I guess that's no longer possible.
The ObamaPhone was started by Bush.
Musk has risked almost every penny he has on multiple occasions.
I agree he has an extremely high risk tolerance, though that doesn't make him a good person.
He has created, commercialized or drastically improved four things (five if you count the boring company). The 1T of his wealth benefits society in the products we all consume, the environmental gains (he was the first to mass produce electric cars profitably), the jobs he has created and the taxes paid by him, his companies and his workers.
His car company is pretty small as car companies go, SpaceX means some new satellites, but Starlink is the only thing that's really making a difference to normal people. And Neuralink might help a lot of people in the future, but it largely R&D now.
His wealth doesn't come from what his companies have done. It comes from his ability as a promoter and its ridiculous effect on the stock price.
the environmental gains (he was the first to mass produce electric cars profitably),
He worked hard to get Trump re-elected, if he was in fact the tipping point, he has harmed the environment far more than he has helped.
Not to mention all the potentially hundreds of thousands of people who died due to his cuts to DOGE.
Do you see any socialists doing any of these things? This is one capitalistic person. He's done more for the environment than any green party. He's created more wealth and better jobs than all communists combined.
It sounds like this is more to do with your ideology than Elon Musk.
The entire original argument for Brexit was based on racist nationalism.
They wanted to kick the foreigners out (while still letting their own elite vacation in Europe).
Humans are tribal, in modern times that tribe is usually their nation, and they care deeply about the survival of their tribe.
If immigration is seen as changing the fundamental nature of that tribe (nation) people will resist it.
We need to figure out a way to deal with that fact if we want to continue to have relatively open borders.
Anthropic made Skynet? I think not.
As it happens, the Chinese are capable of making their own near-frontier models, many of which they release publicly as open weights.
It's not hype, Anthropic is literally saying there's no actual risk they're aware of.
What actually happened is they refused to let US Intelligence agencies use their models to perform illegal surveillance. So now the US government is illegally punishing them.
Chemistry is applied theology. -- Augustus Stanley Owsley III
