Comment by xg15
3 years ago
> After the terrorist’s death was announced, the entrepreneur Elon Musk tweeted that Kaczynski “might not be wrong” in his diagnosis that technology had been a disaster for humanity, one of a list of Silicon Valley figures who have praised the clarity of the bomber’s reasoning (while condemning his violent acts).
I play both sides, so I always come out on top!
Dude. Read the tweet in context [1]. He was responding to this headline:
“The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race."
Most likely, he was thinking of the dangers of AI (hence “might” - because we still don’t know).
[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1667627403089268739?s=46...
If that's the case, it's still hypocritical - he was one of the early investors in OpenAI: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-openai-reason-exis...
You haven’t followed the story at all, have you?
He founded OpenAI to prevent an outcome where AGI is developed closed source by a single corporation - which he thought would likely be Google. Elon founding OpenAI actually led to him falling out with Larry Page, who used to be a good friend of Elon (but who didn’t share these concerns about AI).
It is ironic that it’s now OpenAI that partnered with Microsoft and runs GPT-3/4/x on a closed source basis. This is the opposite of what Elon wanted to achieve, and what he had in mind when he named the venture “OpenAI”.
Elon (who left OpenAI in 2018) has criticized OpenAI for this many times over the last months. He says OpenAI has taken donations as a non profit and then turned around and made themselves into a closed source for-profit.
> I play both sides, so I always come out on top!
How anyone thinks this guy has the time to be chief engineer at SpaceX when all he does is shitpost on twitter all day is the real grift.
I'm a big proponent of Musk corps, solely because of the team within them and entirely despite of Elon (though he did serve a purpose); but the former channer in me also likes seeing how sage level trolling has not only made him immensely wealthy but also functions as a sort of psyop to gauge to how effective social media really is/remains in the collective psyche.
It's like the more advanced version of, 'stick your smartphone in the microwave for full charge' kind of thing: perverse and diabolical in a way but also necessary to put a finger on the pulse of the collective IQ of the modern internet sort of thing.
Better than some "we just want to make the world a better place" true believer.