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It's simple. Elon's top priority now is "killing the woke mind virus" at any cost, and his Nazi AI is a key tool for that. As long as twitter users take Grok at face value, and spread its talking points all over, it's worth it to him. It doesn't matter if it doesn't make economical sense, it only matters that Elon Musk personally wants to keep it going.

I doubt that anyone at OpenAI would let their payday decrease. If anything, they got assurances that everyone would keep the bubble going until 2028 no matter what.

Republicans and the Supreme Court have learned their lessons from Georgia, and will never let this happen. They will find new ways to disenfranchise all the people who'd vote blue. Plus their war on education ensures that people who grow up there will remain uninformed and hateful and thus red.

Given the state's war on education, how do companies think they'll have a pipeline of well educated workers? We know it's only going to become more biblical as long as the current Supreme Court exists.

Yeah, his current playbook is to get the public to fund his Nazi propaganda machine of X + Grok. Letting a billionaire tie that heinous stuff to critical space infrastructure and use 401k money from all Americans to fund it is a criminal indictment of our entire system!

#2: Gemini also has scheduled actions. You can just ask it to give you daily digests about developments in some area, or you could even be in the middle of chatting about some current events, and tell it to notify you when there is new data, etc.

It looks like they did some worst case testing that was reassuring, so that it isn't Russian roulette? Any comments on that? I suppose their composite testing and temperature projections could also be wrong, and their trajectory changes might not be mitigating enough for the heat shield chunking, but that's a few different things all simultaneously being wrong for a catastrophic failure to occur.

The NASA engineers wanted to understand what would happen if large chunks of the heat shield were stripped away entirely from the composite base of Orion. So they subjected this base material to high energies for periods of 10 seconds up to 10 minutes, which is longer than the period of heating Artemis II will experience during reentry.

What they found is that, in the event of such a failure, the structure of Orion would remain solid, the crew would be safe within, and the vehicle could still land in a water-tight manner in the Pacific Ocean.

Looks like they did some reassuring testing for the worst case scenario:

  The Avcoat blocks, which are about 1.5 inches thick, are laminated onto a thick composite base of the Orion spacecraft. Inside this is a titanium framework that carries the load of the vehicle. The NASA engineers wanted to understand what would happen if large chunks of the heat shield were stripped away entirely from the composite base of Orion. So they subjected this base material to high energies for periods of 10 seconds up to 10 minutes, which is longer than the period of heating Artemis II will experience during reentry.


  What they found is that, in the event of such a failure, the structure of Orion would remain solid, the crew would be safe within, and the vehicle could still land in a water-tight manner in the Pacific Ocean.

I wonder why he didnt just buy his way into this too. I guess Valve wasn't up for sale haha.

But he could have tried the VRChat folks, and Bigscreen. I guess he bought the Beat Saber folks, but he probably needed to buy a big game studio and maybe one with experience shipping successful MMORPGs.

I think we'll eventually move away from using these verbose documents, presentations, etc for communication. Just do your work, thinking, solving problems, etc while verbally dumping it all out into LLM sessions as you go. When someone needs to be updated on a particular task or project, there will be a way to give them granular access to those sessions as a sort of partial "brain dump" of yours. They can ask the LLM questions directly, get bullet points, whatever form they prefer the information in.

That way, thinking is communication! That's kind of why I loved math so much - it felt like I could solve a problem and succinctly communicate with the reader at the same time.

Of course it's going to be this government that goes and pokes the bubble that's propping up the economy, despite all the government's other shenanigans.

I believe the single core performance of the a18 pro is a 50% boost, but the multi core performance is about the same as the m1. I'm sure you're already taking the ram limitations into account for longevity.

Might not be worth it now, but might be in future. Not just for future LLMs, but future AI architectures.

I don't think the current transformers architecture is the final stop in the architectural breakthroughs we need for "AGI" that mimics human thought process. We've gone through RNN, LSTM, Mamba, Transformers, with an exponentially increasing amounts of data over the years. If we want to use similar "copy human sequences" approaches all the way to AGI, we need to continuously record human thoughts, so to speak (and yes, that makes me really queasy).

So, persisting the session, that's already available in a convenient form for AI, is also about capturing the human reasoning process during the session, and the sometimes inherent heuristics therein. I agree that it's not really useful for humans to read.

Right now, it might not be worth the cost. That might change in future so that they consider it by default?

While it's noisy and complicated for humans to read through, this session info is primarily for future AI to read and use as additional input for their tasks.

We could have LLMs ingest all these historical sessions, and use them as context for the current session. Basically treat the current session as an extension of a much, much longer previous session.

Plus, future models might be able to "understand" the limitations of current models, and use the historical session info to identity where the generated code could have deviated from user intention. That might be useful for generating code, or just more efficient analysis by focusing on possible "hotspots", etc.

Basically, it's high time we start capturing any and all human input for future models, especially open source model development, because I'm sure the companies already have a bunch of this kind of data.

Q: Will you turn off the tool if they violate the rules?

  @sama: Yes, we will turn it off in that very unlikely event, but *we believe the U.S. government is an institution that does its best to follow law and policy.*

  What we won't do is turn it off because we disagree with a particular (legal military) decision. We trust their authority.

How can anyone trust a guy who says this after the past year?!

Apparently Sam was secretly negotiating with DoD since Wednesday. While publicly proclaiming solidarity with Anthropic. Just vile, and expected.

Reading that phrase made me physically shudder.

Exactly, they're letting the lawless administration decide what the lawful purposes and the policies in general are.

The "human approval" will be someone clicking a YES button all the time, like Israeli officers did in the Gaza bombing.

I bet Sam secretly pledged to DoD that the red lines were only temporary, for optics and to calm employees at the all hands meeting.

A few months down the line, OpenAI will quietly decide that their next model is safe enough for autonomous weapons, and remove their safeguard layer. The mass surveillance enablement might be an indirect deal through Palantir.

*Altman may have killed a king by getting him to be complacent.*

I still think a lot about the failed OpenAI coup, and how different things would be now if Microsoft hadn't backed Altman. Would this hype cycle and bubble grown so ridiculous if there were more conscientious people in charge at the front-runner? We will unfortunately never know. I really wish that board had planned out their coup better.

Bingo! Elon's main life mission now is to roll back social progress via the anti-woke combination of xAI and Twitter. That's why he's tying them to the now rather-essential SpaceX, despite possibly hurting its IPO. He can now keep pumping money into them without a worry.

There was a WaPo article yesterday, that talked about how xAI deliberately loosened Grok’s safety guardrails and relaxed restrictions on sexual content in an effort to make the chatbot more engaging and “sticky” for users. xAI employees had to sign new waivers in the summer, and start working with harmful content, in order to train and enable those features.

I assume the raid is hoping to find communications to establish that timeline, maybe internal concerns that were ignored? Also internal metrics that might show they were aware of the problem. External analysts said Grok was generating a CSAM image every minute!!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/02/elon-mu...

I think Musk is just that obsessed with his mission of reversing social progress and controlling the direction of the world, using the anti-woke combination of xAI and Twitter. He knows that tying them to SpaceX will hurt its IPO, but now they're part of an entity that's too essential to fail.

They're also probably rushing out the IPO to beat the bubble pop. I think everyone earlier expected to keep the bubble going a few more years, that's why they made all those circular deals. But then Trump spooked Europe into possibly scaling back US investments and decoupling from US tech. So now you have an unsure Nvidia walking back their OpenAI deal, etc.

The "administrative costs" in that analysis are misleading. "Administrative costs include spending on running governmental health programs and overhead from insurers but exclude administrative expenditures from healthcare providers." I don't think the blue bar is representative of the "raw cost" of care.

This study says over one-third of all US healthcare costs are administrative.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-costs-administrati...