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Almost certainly the easter egg found in the Trump "Big Beautiful Bill" which prevents states from enacting AI regulations also came from Musk. That way he can

Almost certainly the easter egg found in the Trump "Big Beautiful Bill" which prevents states from enacting AI regulations also came from Musk. That way he can continue to steal from others and lock competitors out whilst being comfortable knowing that no laws will be enacted to prevent it.

mgoetzke 1y ago
why do you think he is so evil but all others are benign ?
- littlestymaar 1y ago
  None of them are benign. He's the only one to have been in a government office though, and he's also batshit crazy, which makes him even more dangerous than the other oligarchs.
  - HenryBemis 1y ago
    He is not "batshit crazy", or maybe he is. But he is making the next generation of ICBMs for the US government, sorry.. he is making super-duper rockets that will definitely take people to Mars and his companies/creations will be the very first tech ever to _not_ be used for war and death!!! (he wrote while laughing). So that settles it (all).
labster 1y ago
Yep, Musk saying he’s going to fund primary campaigns against congressmembers who vote for the Big Beautiful Bill is all just a brilliant bit of reverse psychology. Or more likely, Congress is super worried about Roko’s Basilisk.
- api 1y ago
  Basilisk / Skynet 2028 I’m not 100% kidding with how human politics is going. Maybe superintelligent AI takeover would be awesome. (Wasn’t that the back story of the Culture novels?)
  - JKCalhoun 1y ago
    It was more or less the story from the "Colossus" trilogy. And from the video posted the other (older episode of Nova on AI) Arthur C. Clarke is saying that if we allow A.I. to take over, we deserve it.
- tetris11 1y ago
  That's a wild reference! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk > Roko's basilisk is a thought experiment which states there could be an otherwise benevolent artificial superintelligence (AI) in the future that would punish anyone who knew of its potential existence but did not directly contribute to its advancement or development, in order to incentivize said advancement.
  - BoxOfRain 1y ago
    It's Pascal's Wager with a sci-fi reskin, and all the objections that go along with that.
    - eru 1y ago
      Roko's Basilisk is very, very similar to Pascal's wager, but it has an extra wrinkle: The Basilisk task you to with bringing the Basilisk into being. Pascal's wager merely asks you to believe (and perhaps do some rituals, like pray or whatever), but not to make the deity more likely.
    - yubblegum 1y ago
      No it is not. Pascal was not making an objective argument for why someone should believe. He was making an argument for why he believed (based on personal religious experiences that he had had).
    - numpad0 1y ago
      To me, the Wager sounds like a pure philosophical joke, and the Basilisk sounds like a typical cult murder justification. It's not falsifiable, and it explains anything post facto. "xyz was tail of the Basilisk" can pseudo-rationalize anything you want. I am presently being compelled by future Basilisk to take another slice of cheese. I have no choice but to oblige for fear of my own life :p
  - stuaxo 1y ago
    And some of the CEOs of LLM companies seem to believe in it, and that "AGI" will come from their LLM work - both of which are utterly insane points of view.
api 1y ago
We really need a one bill one topic amendment. We are going to get to where there is one bill a year that nobody reads and everything else by executive order, at which point congress is just for show.
- threeseed 1y ago
  And this may sound ridiculous/odd but you need to bring back pork-barrelling i.e. earmarks. If you allow everyone to go back to their district with something it encourages smaller, more frequent bills and better negotiation.
  - api 1y ago
    That’s a very interesting contrarian take right there.
NekkoDroid 1y ago
> Almost certainly the easter egg found in the Trump "Big Beautiful Bill" which prevents states from enacting AI regulations also came from Musk. My guess is on Peter Thiel

mgoetzke 1y ago

why do you think he is so evil but all others are benign ?

littlestymaar 1y ago
None of them are benign. He's the only one to have been in a government office though, and he's also batshit crazy, which makes him even more dangerous than the other oligarchs.
- HenryBemis 1y ago
  He is not "batshit crazy", or maybe he is. But he is making the next generation of ICBMs for the US government, sorry.. he is making super-duper rockets that will definitely take people to Mars and his companies/creations will be the very first tech ever to _not_ be used for war and death!!! (he wrote while laughing). So that settles it (all).

labster 1y ago

Yep, Musk saying he’s going to fund primary campaigns against congressmembers who vote for the Big Beautiful Bill is all just a brilliant bit of reverse psychology. Or more likely, Congress is super worried about Roko’s Basilisk.

api 1y ago
Basilisk / Skynet 2028 I’m not 100% kidding with how human politics is going. Maybe superintelligent AI takeover would be awesome. (Wasn’t that the back story of the Culture novels?)
- JKCalhoun 1y ago
  It was more or less the story from the "Colossus" trilogy. And from the video posted the other (older episode of Nova on AI) Arthur C. Clarke is saying that if we allow A.I. to take over, we deserve it.
tetris11 1y ago
That's a wild reference! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk > Roko's basilisk is a thought experiment which states there could be an otherwise benevolent artificial superintelligence (AI) in the future that would punish anyone who knew of its potential existence but did not directly contribute to its advancement or development, in order to incentivize said advancement.
- BoxOfRain 1y ago
  It's Pascal's Wager with a sci-fi reskin, and all the objections that go along with that.
  - eru 1y ago
    Roko's Basilisk is very, very similar to Pascal's wager, but it has an extra wrinkle: The Basilisk task you to with bringing the Basilisk into being. Pascal's wager merely asks you to believe (and perhaps do some rituals, like pray or whatever), but not to make the deity more likely.
  - yubblegum 1y ago
    No it is not. Pascal was not making an objective argument for why someone should believe. He was making an argument for why he believed (based on personal religious experiences that he had had).
  - numpad0 1y ago
    To me, the Wager sounds like a pure philosophical joke, and the Basilisk sounds like a typical cult murder justification. It's not falsifiable, and it explains anything post facto. "xyz was tail of the Basilisk" can pseudo-rationalize anything you want. I am presently being compelled by future Basilisk to take another slice of cheese. I have no choice but to oblige for fear of my own life :p
- stuaxo 1y ago
  And some of the CEOs of LLM companies seem to believe in it, and that "AGI" will come from their LLM work - both of which are utterly insane points of view.

api 1y ago

We really need a one bill one topic amendment. We are going to get to where there is one bill a year that nobody reads and everything else by executive order, at which point congress is just for show.

threeseed 1y ago
And this may sound ridiculous/odd but you need to bring back pork-barrelling i.e. earmarks. If you allow everyone to go back to their district with something it encourages smaller, more frequent bills and better negotiation.
- api 1y ago
  That’s a very interesting contrarian take right there.

NekkoDroid 1y ago

> Almost certainly the easter egg found in the Trump "Big Beautiful Bill" which prevents states from enacting AI regulations also came from Musk. My guess is on Peter Thiel