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Yeah I'm sure everyone on r/cursor or in previous HN threads about Grok 4.5 or 4.6 are all unserious and insane.

No one actually cares about the politics as long as the model codes well.

Edit, quite interesting to see the reception to this comment compared to essentially the same type of comment I made on a Grok 4.6 benchmark HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49275385#49275571

It's true that Cursor gives a lot of usage with Grok, most users of Cursor don't care about Musk.

There are a lot of people who are apathetic to what musk is, people that don't care are not people who should inspire you. What the hell is so inspiring about apathy anyway?!

And yeah, people that don't care DO make the world worse through their apathy.

I would say it is sad that there are people who use Grok when there are so many other choices available which don't come with the issues of supporting Musk.

It is not all just 'politics'. Take a stand on some issues. It doesn't cost much not to use Grok.

Voting with your wallet is still very much a valid way to protest that odious man.

Some people might not mind (or even know), but I sleep better at night trying to work as ethically as I can.

> No one actually cares about the politics as long as the model codes well.

I do. There are enough models to choose from that I don't need to use one from a guy who did a nazi salute at the presidential podium, and proceeded to rid our government of brown people he felt didn't deserve their job.

"No one actually cares about the politics as long as the model codes well."

> I totally care about politics, especially when it comes to not giving my money to people like musk.

i care about not financially supporting a person that is actively trying to disenfranchise me, why is that a difficult concept for some people? that not everyone is motivated exclusively by financial profit? is moral bankruptcy so pervasive that some people assume it is unanimous?

'They' - in this case - are those who are unable to empathize. People who only learn of other's struggles through visceral personal experience. Conservatives, in general, struggle with this class reasoning... Very much a 'if I don't experience it then it doesn't exist' kind of mentality. Frustrating and exhausting. A lack of imagination, a lack of empathy, they just are lacking in these regards.

Your comments are all in absolutes. As if this was the one thing that mattered to you, everything else is irrelevant. Don't most people make their decisions based on a balance of considerations? Dismissing half the world as nazi or fascist does not seem productive, it kinda makes you look like the insane one.

This is the “Mussolini made the trains run on time” of ai hot takes.

(Btw, mussolini didn’t make the trains run on time)

Also: "What do you mean everybody at this party is a Nazi? They seem uninterested in politics, and they have been so welcoming to me!"

"Sure I'm indirectly funding the erosion of basic human rights in the States, but at least I made my Hello World app cheaper!"

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