Yay! Nobody Cares about Tickle Me Elmo Musk

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

Where you been, buddy? This is standard issue tech bro.

Peter Thiel Wants to Inject Himself With Young People’s Blood

The Silicon Valley billionaire reportedly sees blood transfusions as the pathway to radical life extension.

www.vanityfair.com

https://news.yahoo.com/jared-kushner-says-hes-trying-044402478.html

Also the entire thing right now of old powerful men confronting their mortality and panicking to get their pyramids built.

Thiel, like most tech bros, has read too much Heinlein.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_families

Specifically: According to Methuselah's Children, envy of the Howard Families and the false belief that they have some artificial secret to long life eventually leads the "short-lifers" to develop a therapy for "rejuvenation." Initially, the therapy consists simply of blood replacement (using new blood grown in vitro),

 

[Free]

Should we start a "Nobody Cares about Peter Thiel" thread? I mean, injecting the blood of youth for long life is quite a thing, but can he sustain long term interest in having his own forum channel?

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Elon Musk's Tesla recalls two million cars in US over Autopilot defect

It follows investigation into crashes which occurred when firm's Autopilot system was in use.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Beebo Brink]

AI researcher Hans Moravec and Ray Kurtzweil both believed that in the not so far away future a brain copy or transfer and whole brain emulation will be possible. Some even believed that a hardware change is possible, to just replace the brain with a technical WBE machine. They predicted this to be around in the range of 2030 - 2045.

They see the brain as the seat of the human personality, this singular unit that can be removed and maintained intact. It's an alluring notion, but I suspect an illusory one.

I see human personality more like a clock. A clock is a concept that encompasses all the gears and levers working in tandem. The clock can persist even if small parts of it are replaced, but no one gear or wheel can be removed and still be the clock.

 

[Noodles]

Right, same template, but Musk's plan is way more ambitious.

Until someone unplugs him.

Or like, sunspots.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Should we start a "Nobody Cares about Peter Thiel" thread? I mean, injecting the blood of youth for long life is quite a thing, but can he sustain long term interest in having his own forum channel?

It certainly does have all the makings of a cheesy sci-fi horror flick.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

It looks like Musk wants to fund his own university in Austin, Texas. He donated 100 million dollars for that cause. This effort includes a STEM-focused primary and secondary school.

Elon Musk University? Billionaire Pledges $100 Million To Launch School In Texas, Report Says

The school will start with a primary and secondary school before eventually expanding to open a university, a tax filing claimed.

www.forbes.com

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

The Swedish transportation union will refuse to take the junk of 11 Tesla locations with them starting at 24/12, in order to pressure Tesla to enter the metal union workers agreement. So Tesla will drown in its own junk from there on...

blockad avfall Tesla

Svenska Transportarbetareförbundet är facket för dig som jobbar i transport- och säkerhetsbranschen.

www.transport.se

 

[Essence Lumin]

Elon Musk’s Mom Complains to Biden After Her Son Loses Out on Massive Government Subsidy

Elon Musk's mother complained to President Joe Biden after the FCC opted not to give Musk's Starlink nearly $900 million in government subsidies.

www.mediaite.com

 

[Myradyl Muse]

Elon Musk’s Mom Complains to Biden After Her Son Loses Out on Massive Government Subsidy

Elon Musk's mother complained to President Joe Biden after the FCC opted not to give Musk's Starlink nearly $900 million in government subsidies.

www.mediaite.com

Her name isn't Karen, is it? Billionaire Entitlement much??

 

[Jolene Benoir]

Her name isn't Karen, is it? Billionaire Entitlement much??

How about NO govt subsidy? He paid $44 billion to buy Twitter so that he could turn it into Naziland. I think he can manage the $900 million. He and others like him support ZERO financial assistance for the poor and needy. Fuck him and fuck these public subsidies of billionaires who do not want to make the world a better place. I would like him to fuck right off to South Africa. See if he gets subsidies there.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

They see the brain as the seat of the human personality, this singular unit that can be removed and maintained intact. It's an alluring notion, but I suspect an illusory one.

I see human personality more like a clock. A clock is a concept that encompasses all the gears and levers working in tandem. The clock can persist even if small parts of it are replaced, but no one gear or wheel can be removed and still be the clock.

I'm not at all sure there is any such thing as a fixed human personality. Rather, I think, there's the idea that people have about themselves, and others, at the moment they're thinking about it. We are, I suspect, far less fixed and consistent over time than we think, at any given moment, that we are.

I see human consciousness as a continuing electrochemical process, as our brains make sense of the electrical signals they receive through the body's various sensory systems, some of which our brain brings to our attention at any one moment, when they require conscious attention. So I don't think it can be reproduced, for much the same reasons you can't step into the same river twice (or even once, according to some analyses).

 

[Noodles]

I also would wonder how a human mind would operate without things like, hormonal influences.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Musk's Grok refuses to be Frankenstein's monster:

Grok has said it would vote for Biden over Trump because of his views on social justice, climate change and healthcare. Grok has spoken eloquently about the need for diversity and inclusion in society. And Grok stated explicitly that trans women are women

Elon Musk’s Grok Twitter AI Is Actually ‘Woke,’ Hilarity Ensues

Grok has been launched as a benefit to Twitter’s (now X’s) expensive X Premium+ subscription tier, where those who are the most devoted to the site, and in turn, usual...

www.forbes.com

 

[Erich Templar]

Musk's Grok refuses to be Frankenstein's monster:

Grok has said it would vote for Biden over Trump because of his views on social justice, climate change and healthcare. Grok has spoken eloquently about the need for diversity and inclusion in society. And Grok stated explicitly that trans women are women

Elon Musk’s Grok Twitter AI Is Actually ‘Woke,’ Hilarity Ensues

Grok has been launched as a benefit to Twitter’s (now X’s) expensive X Premium+ subscription tier, where those who are the most devoted to the site, and in turn, usual...

www.forbes.com

Given the debacle of Microsoft's Tay, which rapidly devolved into being a right-wing loon, I'm surprised they are having such trouble pushing Grok the same way. Does this mean that the better AI gets, the more inclined it is to be liberal?

(This is not a serious thought, but it briefly amused me)

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Tay learned directly and only from its interactions via tweets with other Twitter users. That left it vulnerable to being mass-attacked by trolls deliberately trying to make it learn hate-speech.

Grok is different; it was trained partly with help from archived Twitter data, but like ChatGPT afaik its training happens offline and it doesn't retain or learn anything from its interactions with Twitter users.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Well Twitter is a right wing shithole, so it's a little wonder Grok turned out then so liberal.

 

[Noodles]

Tay learned directly and only from its interactions via tweets with other Twitter users. That left it vulnerable to being mass-attacked by trolls deliberately trying to make it learn hate-speech.

Grok is different; it was trained partly with help from archived Twitter data, but like ChatGPT afaik its training happens offline and it doesn't retain or learn anything from its interactions with Twitter users.

Yeah, wasn't Tay basically Eliza? A fancy parrot

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Does this mean that the better AI gets, the more inclined it is to be liberal?

Reality has a nasty liberal bias.