Comment by TheAlchemist
6 months ago
I really wish more people were aware of this. It's a major scandal and definitely not being talked enough about.
Nevermind SpaceX, which at least have some importance for US defense industry, but xAI ? We will be investing in Elon's private venture, at the price that he himself set and which is at least 2 orders of magnitude too high...
> It's a major scandal and definitely not being talked enough about
It’s being extensively talked about and debated. It hasn’t entered the mainstream discourse because it’s too technical.
It doesn't need to enter the mainstream discourse.
It needs to enter the inbox of a grand jury docket.
What crime do you think was committed? Indices are privately maintained and transparently rebalanced.
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There are enough Elon haters that you can rest assured there will be an inverse ETF so that you can easily hedge away your index exposure if you really want to.
He's strapped them together because xAI is about to go bankrupt and has fuck all, so this way he can dump it on the bag holders.
Just call it what it is: SpaceTwitter
SpaceXitter
Obviously pronounced “spaceSh*tter”
Well, we elected a bunch of criminals, and Elon fired everyone who regulates this. The SEC was gutted like a fish, and contract terminations resulted in a large percentage of FINRA staff being laid off.
But the Dow is over 50,000 right now!!!1
(actually, 46,565.74 right now)
$50,000.
Gotta be accurate. Just saying 50,000 implies her incoherent rant was even a little bit based in reality.
https://youtu.be/WK12_IkAj2s?t=94
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You have to be more specific when talking about "socialist europe". The Netherlands, for example, has the best-managed pension system in the world. Despite what many people believe, "Europe" isn't one country and it doesn't have a single healthcare system, pension system, or anything else related to the welfare state.
US social security on the other hand is exactly as you describe pension systems in "socialist europe". Money taken from current workers and invested in state debt.
https://www.mercer.com/en-au/about/newsroom/mercer-cfa-insti...
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>I really wish more people were aware of this. It's a major scandal and definitely not being talked enough about.
Aware of what? A rule change that has been asked for long before Elon stepped foot into the White House? Just because the collective brain rot and Elon Derangement Syndrome on BlueSky is calling it a "scandal" doesn't make it so.
In order to be incredulous at xAI, you'd have to be incredulous of the AI business in general, which is fair.
But then you'd also be basically betting against the entire tech sector, and really the entire US economy and against the value add of AI. That kind of bet is much more difficult to swallow.
That's not true at all.
I am confident some companies will make bank with AI. I am also confident xAI is not one of those.
It's as if you said "if you don't think Lycos is a good business you don't think search engines can work in general".
>I am also confident xAI is not one of those
Surely you're going to buy long Put options with that confidence, right?
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I kinda disagree because while most search engines failed and Google succeeded, they did not succeed by simply being a better search engine.
This is only further demonstrated by their excellent leverage of Gemini. Google continues to succeed at being Google.
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xAI's value is irrelevant here. This is about Elon throwing his weight around and rigging the game to create an artificial squeeze so him and his early investors can make bank by transferring wealth from everyone's retirement fund.
The company is irrelevant. The focus should be on the money making scheme
Lol
> against the value add of AI
Hasn't the surprising lack of value add been discussed with increasing frequency?
Who is using Grok seriously?
Overall it's worse than the other frontier models, but it's decent for queries about breaking news, due to being trained on twitter data. It's also better for queries about controversial topics, and topics that the other labs have deemed to be "unsafe".
Politically, it differs quite a bit from other models.[0] It's right leaning, although it's closer neutral than other models, defining what neutral is a challenge though.
[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23841
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I use it, overall, it is not too bad. I wouldn't use it for coding etc, but its access to X means it can answer news related stuff much better. Its guardrails are lower so it does fairly innocuous things that will have ChatGPT or Gemini refusing to do.
I tried it when it has the most extensive free offering, and it definitely answers my worldbuilding questions in more detail than I expected and compared to Gemini or Chatgpt. Can't say anything about hallucinations tho.
In my bubble I only see right winger influencers using it.
Right wingers and generating creating nude images of girls and women who post on xitter, without their consent? Those are the only things I even associate with Grok anymore. The venn diagram may line up pretty nicely between them, too.