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Musk Announces xAI
- chrismeller 3y agohttps://archive.is/98SvF https://archive.is/98SvF
- JumpinJack_Cash 3y agoLots has been said about Musk owning Twitter. In reality I think it's Twitter that owns him, make something viral on Twitter and this guy will feel the need to inject himself into that topic or regurgitate his opinion on whatever it is that is trending. Rule #1 that any smart dealer knows is to never get hooked on the stuff that you are selling.
- brucethemoose2 3y agoWhat's amazing is that, with all the internal Twitter info Musk is privy to, he is still getting sucked in.
- eimrine 3y agoMaybe he hired someone to tweet.
- JumpinJack_Cash 3y agoIt’s not that different than the owner of a club getting into whatever artist is getting traction in his club. However the club owner supposedly has friends around him and he’s taken along for the ride Musk is getting sucked in by a bunch of people who he never met. With enough coordination twitter users could pull a psyop on him and he’d never know any better
- renegade-otter 3y agoMusk was already hooked - he just bought the delivery operation because he wanted to mainline the good stuff without risking the dealer flake on him.
- sebzim4500 3y agoLet's hope this is being run by the SpaceX Musk and not the Twitter Musk. You can see the team at https://x.ai https://x.ai
- meepmorp 3y agoSpaceX is run by Gwynne Shotwell, not Musk.
- hungryforcodes 3y agoThis is pedantic. Everyone associates SpaceX with Musk obviously.
- meepmorp 3y agoSure. But in terms of the actual day to day stuff that prevents chaos and clusterfuckery, that's what actually matters
- hungryforcodes 3y agoNo one has ever complained about Musk running SpaceX.
- throw47474777j 3y agoThat’s because he doesn’t.
- meepmorp 3y agoYes, for the exact same reason nobody has ever complained about me running SpaceX - because neither of us does.
- filoleg 3y agoWell, only one of you two is listed as the CEO of SpaceX. And I would expect that if there was much to complain about, it would be directed at that person, not at a random unaffiliated person on HN.
- user_named 3y agoWhy are they pretending Musk is running the company? Why is whoever will actually be running the company okay with that?
- sebzim4500 3y agoPossibly money. Also, there is an appeal to the idea of being able to run a capable, well resourced research team while Musk acts as a lightning rod for the idiots on twitter.
- ryanklee 3y agoHopefully Dan Hendrycks advises them to pack their bags and go home before they fuck everything up.
- starbase 3y ago[flagged]
- ryanklee 3y agoThe insight is that there is a growing set of vocal invividuals who see Musk as a dysfunctional, dubious figure. Rewind 5 years, it wasn't the case then.
- starbase 3y agoIf their best argument is "guy with over 100k employees delegates responsibility" I'm not sure how many people they are going to win over. But maybe convincing is not the goal. Who knows.
- rsynnott 3y agoEh, I mean, that was long after The Submarine Incident. HN, granted, was weirdly Musk-enthusiastic for a long time, but the signs of trouble were already there.
- starbase 3y agoWhat are the signs of trouble, in your view? (and what is the trouble?)
- pwdisswordfishc 3y ago[flagged]
- thebruce87m 3y ago> the formation of what he’s calling xAI, whose goal is to “understand the true nature of the universe.” Sounds ( a bit ) like the plot of Devs: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt8134186/ https://m.imdb.com/title/tt8134186/
- renegade-otter 3y agoThe Devs is an amazing mini-series, and I think highly underrated (or just unknown) among the nerds. The summary doesn't really give away how big the plot gets.