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mlinsey 4 days ago

Is this cash or compute? Elon has one of the world's biggest compute clusters spun up, and little inference demand to speak of.

Trading billions worth of idle compute, in exchange for a high-strike call option on the #3 player in the most-promising-vertical for AI, plus (presmuably) some access to their data, starts to sound like not a bad trade. Especially if you're pre-committed to betting your entire rocket company on winning in AI, and you're currently in sixth or seventh place.

HWR_14 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

> you're pre-committed to betting your entire rocket company on winning in AI

SpaceX has invested a small amount as a share of its value in XAI, and could survive the loss of its investment.

mlinsey 4 days ago | parent [-]

It's true he could write off xAI today and the company could still fetch a trillion-dollar valuation. But I was more referring to his stated intentions - between his stated plans, his actions taking SpaceX from a profitable company to spending basically all their revenue (plus a rumored large chunk of what's raised via its IPO) on AI, and seeing his tendency to make bet-the-farm bets on Tesla, I think it's fair to say he's committing to bet all of SpaceX on xAI.

Barbing 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I heard he made a deal with a company to use his clusters. Is there good data on demand for Grok? Seems like relatively little chatter at least, in spite of tremendous investment.

throwanem 4 days ago | parent [-]

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sighthrowaway 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

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the-peter 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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estomagordo 4 days ago | parent [-]

I hate Trump as much as the next guy, but what is that evidence, again?

modriano 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

He had a very close, decades long friendship with the most notorious sex-trafficker-of-children-to-rich-creeps in modern history for decades. And when imprisoned, that infamous pedophile died while in a federal prison under Trump's control, with a strange gap in the CCTV video footage. And Trump's handling of the entire Epstein Files saga makes it clear that Trump is described extensively in those files and he desperately wants to conceal it. What could be in there that he would use the entire justice department to try and redact? Trump is shameless about things that are legal even if they're salacious (like sleeping with porn star Stormy Daniels), so you have to wonder, what could Jeffery Epstein's good friend be trying to conceal?

Also, he owned the Miss Universe org (including Miss USA and Miss Teen USA) for decades, and he was known to walk into the dressing rooms of teen contestants as young as 15 while they were undressed. [0]

Also, he bragged about molesting women, and a court of law found that he sexually assaulted E Jean Carroll.

I haven't proven the case that Trump had sex with a minor, but there's way more than enough probable cause to believe it's more likely than not.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20200111171647/https://www.rolli...

estomagordo 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Obviously this looks very bad but you don't seriously think it constitutes evidence?

modriano 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Imagine there's a camera continuously recording a cookie jar. A child eats all of the cookies and then deletes the footage from the time they ate the cookies. A parent returns to find their child covered in crumbs, loudly proclaiming they haven't eaten a cookie in years and actively interferes with the parent's investigation and tries to distract from it by throwing a brick through the window of an Iranian family down the street.

Are any of the facts in this hypothetical "evidence"? With the knowledge of the truth (that the kid ate the cookies), it's clear these are all relevant pieces of evidence. If we take knowledge of the truth out of the equation, would these facts still be evidence? Unambiguously they would.

brazukadev 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

you don't seriously think it constitutes evidence? Do you even know what the word evidence mean? It is not the same as proof.

estomagordo 4 days ago | parent [-]

Maybe you would want to insert the term "circumstantial" or so.

gpm 4 days ago | parent [-]

Definitionally both circumstantial and direct evidence are forms of evidence. No modifier is necessary.

And incidentally you can be convicted in a court of law purely on circumstantial evidence, and that's the place in society where we have the highest standard of proof. The evidence all being circumstantial is not a gotcha.

sighthrowaway 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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kennywinker 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-evidence-corroborates-clai...

estomagordo 4 days ago | parent [-]

Yeah that's pretty bad.

rhizome 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This isn't court. The evidence, such as it is, is all of the smoke which commonly motivates people to look for fire. The strongest and most comprehensive that I've seen is the argument that if Trump was not implicated in the Epstein files, he would be publishing them in free book form himself and forcing every media outlet to advertise it. Slight exaggeration, but I think truly only slight.

Not really relevant to the thread, but there are simple answers to the "eViDeNcE??" question. You may have already known this.

estomagordo 4 days ago | parent [-]

Again, circumstantial and speculative.

pyvpx 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Clearly you don’t and that disingenuousness is frowned upon in discussions here.

walletdrainer 4 days ago | parent [-]

So, where’s the evidence?

kennywinker 4 days ago | parent [-]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-evidence-corroborates-clai...

throe930rkrdi 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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whatsupdog 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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saaaaaam 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Someone who works on a “sugar dating” app advocating for synthetic child porn? That’s… uncomfortable?

throwanem 4 days ago | parent [-]

To say the least. Great catch! 'O brave new world, that has such people in 't.'

danso 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Has the availability of deepfake porn generation reduced the demand for deepfake porn featuring real people? When deepfake generators are capable of creating convincing imagery of flawless ideal fake humans, why do you suppose there’s so many real humans who report being non-consensual subjects of deepfake porn?

numpad0 4 days ago | parent [-]

> Has the availability of deepfake porn generation reduced the demand for deepfake porn featuring real people?

yes

> When deepfake generators are capable of creating convincing imagery of flawless ideal fake humans, why do you suppose there’s so many real humans who report being non-consensual subjects of deepfake porn?

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eCa 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

One obvious argument is what it was trained on.

whatsupdog 4 days ago | parent [-]

Doesn't have to be. You can train it on normal pictures of children and nude images of adults.

throwanem 4 days ago | parent [-]

> Doesn't have to be. You can train it on normal pictures of children and nude images of adults.

You say this so casually, as though it were a normal thing to know, or as if a normal person would know it. Does that actually seem true where you live right now?

And how do you know that, anyway, Harsh? I mean, all those "unblocked" games you stole to give away and that you also put on Github, that's one thing. But this...

arowthway 4 days ago | parent [-]

Come on, it's not hard to come up with this idea. And it's not even true, model trained on clothed children and nude adults wouldn't know how children's genitals look like.

throwanem 4 days ago | parent [-]

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jacques_chester 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

If it's not in an 8K filing it isn't real.