These comments don't stay up much anymore and I can't tell if it's structural to the forum (flag weight + statistical mechanics of votes + guidelines) or if it's the userbase sentiment.
But I think it represents real malaise in the community. It's not a moderator plot, people here really just don't care and might even support this.
We really are in the minority of opinion for giving a damn about liberal democracy.
Between the guidelines + user thoughts (e.g. repetition, low novelty/new info), there's other reasons these types of replies might end up dead.
I am worried that it leads to people self selecting to other forums biasing the remaining userbase vote/vouch/flag distributions. In an exit vs voice situation, the voice kinda dies out. Then we end up other-izing people and homogenizing our communities.
But I concede it's also possible that the minority opinion issue could be the core driving force.
Nobody both worked and spent their money to get Trump elected like Musk. 300 million to his 2024 campaign [1]. DOGE. On-stage endorsements. Nobody even came close.
No, other big labs are not "innocent little virgins", but they're not even in the same solar system of harm as Musk. To hand-wave at the differences is to permit them.
[1] https://www.opensecrets.org/2024-presidential-race/donald-tr...
Handing corporate code secrets to his AI model is... unusually trusting.
And methane is a large percentage of all power production in the US. So again that also applies to all the other data centers. (And FWIW they've been winding down and shutting down the on site methane generators.)
And no corporate code was handed to AI models.
Even with his successes (Tesla, SpaceX) he has built them up in large part by bending levers of government to his advantage.
Can you provide specific examples of where Elon has bent the levers of government?
So what? Thats called being a maverick. He is very very good at executing on making money which is the point of business.
Also pushing technology forward.
Anthropic: 1.25B/month
Google: 0.92B/month
Unnamed customer starting in december: 1.1B/month
Starlink monthly revenue is ~1.5B/month
If anything, they voted for reduced debt burden and they got the opposite. DOGE failed at pretty much every single one of the goals that the public arguably gave it a mandate for.
Ah, yes, democracy!, except for when the public is wrong.
Who decides when the public is wrong? We do! Who decides "what the public voted for"? We do! So we are the rulers? No, of course, not, this is democracy.
You want to become the decider of when the public is wrong and of what the public voted for? TYRANT! TYRANT!
This is simply epistemologically incorrect. It's obviously incorrect in this case because voters writ large do not have any idea how the government is administered and how to improve it, so even if they claimed to be voting for that, it would not necessarily be an endorsement of any particular approach.
More specifically we know it's not true in this case because there are polls. Voters didn't even claim to care about this! "How the government is administered" was not a high salience issue to voters. Simple as that.
Nonetheless, I didn't suggest anything about overriding their votes. It sounds like you have some sensitive spots to work through (someone obliquely criticizing your idol for sucking at his job?)
half of voters don't pay any attention to politics until the week or two before voting
Sheep often like to think themselves the wolf or coyote, it would seem.
Fuck, it is like the denial around Jan 6th. Those idiots we’re live streaming that shit. I watched it go down live. Now they say they weren’t violent.
We can’t have discourse when we have legit video evidence and people refuse to open their eyes and choose to deny reality
Which Nazi ideologies do you think he embraces? How do you reconcile all the Nazi ideologies he rejects?
"You're on, bro"
The personality is bland and it doesn’t work nearly as hard or even tries to help.
I don't use Grok, but do you want your LLM to have a personality? "Personality" is exactly what people don't like about Claude.
created: 9 minutes ago
That could have been said just as perfectly well from a main account my guy/guyette
Until you ask it to start generating horrific imagery and then it's best in class.
The value of the internet is that people can share whatever they want, and use software how they want. This will mean that some people will abuse that. This is the tradeoff of a free society.
There are ample reasons to believe that Elon Musk is running his mother's account and that the photos weren't even real putting in question that he even had a birthday party.
If you ask Grok about what this means it will always take Elon's defence. It will vehemently deny that Elon would be capable or willing participant of such a thing even if you point out that he faked being a world class gamer, buying accounts that had done all the work and showing none of the skills when live-streaming.
Yeah, I'm sure the guy has time to run his mom's social media account. What's your reasons or evidence? Did you consider maybe it's a social media manager one of them hired running the account?
Sounds like a plus. Guess I will give Grok another try...
Maybe I'm in some kind of bouble but I have never met or talked to anyone who has used Grok.
Not sure if I'll hold the subscription but I could see myself working with it more.
As a chatbot it’s totally fine, virtually indistinguishable from Gemini or ChatGPT or Claude.
For coding it’s… okay. I tried 4.6 and it feels similar to Opus from 12 months ago, or maybe Sonnet from 9 months ago. YMMV.
It's just an observation but so far a pretty solid correlation. Musk has so severely poisoned the well in terms of his UK reputation that the only people who are open about using Grok are... well, wankers is as good a word as any.
FWIW among the AI-using people, it mostly goes Claude Code, then Codex, then whatever runs on their Mac. The only Cursor user I knew has jumped ship to OpenCode.