Sorry, I was unclear. With that I did not talk about this particular deal. This particular deal seems sane. XAI built more compute that they can use themselves since Grok is not very successful so to not just have the hardware standing there they rent it out to competitors. Makes total sense.
It is other things Musk has gone with Twitter and SpaceX which are shady.
> "but it is a trash bag of Musk ventures and crimes"
If people really want to take anti-Musk articles seriously, the hyperbole should be controlled. Elon's no saint, but his companies are not a criminal enterprise.
So how many years can Tesla lie about FSD before it becomes a crime? How much CSAM and revenge porn can X generate before it becomes a crime? How many bribes can he give the president before it becomes a crime? How much data can his lackeys at DOGE exfiltrate before it becomes a crime? How many poor people can he kill before it becomes a crime?
How many sig heils and eugenics memes can he emit until he's considered a bad person?
Was it really ment to mimic the fuhrer you think? Who told you that? I think it's a typical propaganda framing technique used to frame someone into a position.
When the author says “crimes”, I didn’t take it to mean a literal criminal enterprise, but instead casual-speak for something like “bad governance”. It’s like if you saw some bad programming practices and casually called them “programming crimes” to avoid.
Similarly, when the author says “trash bag”, I don’t take it to mean a literal trash bag.
"Criminal" is far from the worst label that can legitimately be applied to this man. In fact, every article on Musk and his ventures should be prefaced with a note: "This vocal white supremacist has caused the deaths of thousands of people in third world countries through his reckless and destructive actions."
I think when the histories are written, his legacy will be more Kissinger than Ford.
It’s people like you that cause Tesla to have a massively inflated 25x the market cap of Volkswagen AG with only half the profits. The Cult of Tesla is too big to fail.
Who else is atleast attempting to bring chip manufacturing to the US with terafab and that too while using another US companies’ most advanced chip since they will be using Intel’s 14A process. There’s a good chance this brings Intel back from a decline. I’m in full support of humanoid robots and Optimus could be promising. Both SpaceX and Starlink provide a lot of value.
The Scene:
Gavin’s development team complains that his new tech ("The Box") is antiquated. He fires back in frustration: "Why did you all take my money then, you entitled little pricks? You all think you’re John Lennon until someone waves a dollar in your face!"
I think this is a unrealistic point of view. If Meta really were as draconian and toxic as many people make it seem, most smart people would have left. Market is tough right now, but then there were other times when jobs were booming. And people still joined Meta. Money is one big aspect.
I am not saying Meta is a paradise. I completely want Meta to face their reckoning for what they have done to the world, but painting it as like a prison camp is misplaced I feel.
How can you say the smart people haven't already left? The only people comfortable working at Meta are comfortable with a company that enabled then profited off a genocide, has mass teenage girl misery machines, invested in companies whose products caused users to kill themselves, worked on systems that helped erode democracy across the world.
I'm sorry but if you're at meta it's not because you are smart, it's because you are a human that derives money from ruining lives. Thinking has very little to do with situation outside of deciding how much greed you're entitled to for the human misery you personally create by enabling such a system.
I understand your point of view. It's not possible to execute a high growth company like Meta without extremely smart, high IQ individuals. And they are OK with the harm Meta is doing. My point was that Meta is bad, but the perception that it routinely abuses employees is misplaced.
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