They would have been run into the ground a long time ago.

I'm not doubting Tesla'a or SpaceX's continual existence. But it will have to be a 20 to 40 trillion dollar company to justify it current P/E.

If Musk can grow this company enough to make the P/E make sense, he'll practically own the world. I don't think it can happen, but I may not live long enough to see the end of this crazy evaluation.

I looked forward to getting InfoWorld each week to see what was going on in the personal computer world. I always started at the front and read through knowing that a great dessert awaited at the end, the "Robert X. Cringely" column. I'm surprised that so few have commented on Slashdot. Maybe most of the old guys, like Cringely, have passed on the the great Comdex in the sky.

I've noticed a lot of highly informative posts from chemists (?) about various chemistry subjects. They almost look like useful synopses. Unless you happen to know the field. Then you realize they're complete garbage. It's becoming clearer and clearer that AI is going to have a hard time deciphering the scientific literature.

I'm an old organic chemist. I have one of those Ivy League PhD's. I've been doing organic synthesis for 50+ years and have been thinking about what goes on in reactions for a long time. I haven't read the article but this synopsis just pegged my BS meter.

I think it's useful for humans to not practice being an asshole. However, everything Anthropic does and says seems to want to convince us that Claude has reached consciousness.

If I took an ax to the back of somebody's head, there's no jury in the world that would let me off cause it was the ax's fault and not mine. Time to haul in Sam for a little questioning.

It seems to me that the hardest part of automated driving is translating what a computer is seeing ( I guess from a camera) into solid information on what is actually there. Figuring out how to drive after that should be fairly simple in comparison. This article give us no insight into how that works. I'm gonna call bullshit on this one.

We appreciate the hard work.

So you see our civilization through the space program?

Good catch. I suspect somebody bought /. and they're milking it for ad revenue all the while trying to run it with one guy who might be an AI agent. It's on automatic pilot and will eventually spiral into irrelevancy. Good run while it lasts.

Your signature suggests that maybe you were on Nixon's side back then.

It's sad that after 30 years, Marc Andreessen turned out to be such a dipshit.

What he said!!