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The old, they had it coming defence of genocide.

If you play with fire you might get burned.

Hamas and friends understand this and rely on western morality to protect them from complete annihilation. They may have miscalculated how often you could kick the dog before it bit back.

This, of course, cuts both ways.


> Also, the S and X models are old and their market segment is heavily saturated at this point so it makes sense for Tesla to exit those model lines.

Car companies typically invest in new models in the same segment in order to stay competitive with the other car companies.


Tesla is not your average car company.

> I haven't come across a cab that is suspension isolated from the frame of a conventional, even though the axles are on air.

They are very often on a simple suspension. The cab will have a pivoting mount at the front and sit on air springs in the back.


I'm wondering how much the output quality of a small model could be boosted by taking multiple goes at it. Generate 20 answers and feed them back through with a "rank these responses" prompt. Or doing something like MCTS.

Isn't this what thinking models do internally? Chain of thoughts?

No. Chain of thought it just the model generating a single answer for longer inside <think></think> tags which are not shown in the final response. The strategy of generating different answers in parallel is something different (which can be used in conjunction with chain of thought) and is the thing used by models like Gemini 3 Deep Think and GPT-5.2 Pro.

Hmm.. got it. Thanks..

Was the Hindenburg disaster really what killed airships, or was it the airplane?

> legal liability is on the person who posts it, not who hosts the tool.

In the specific case of grok posting deepfake nudes on X. Doesn't X both create and post the deepfake?

My understanding was, Bob replies in Alice's thread, "@grok make a nude photo of Alice" then grok replies in the thread with the fake photo.


That specific action is still instigated by Bob.

Where grok is at risk is not responding after they are notified of the issue. It’s trivial for grock to ban some keywords here and they aren’t, that’s a legal issue.


Sure Bob is instigating the harassment, then X.com is actually doing the harassment. Or at least, that's the case plaintiff's attorneys are surely going to be arguing.

I don't see how it's fundamentally any different to mailing someone harassing messages or distressing objects.

Sure, in this context the person who mails the item is the one instigating the harassment but it's the postal network that's facilitating it and actually performing the "last mile" of harassment.


The very first time it happened X is likely off the hook.

However notification plays a role here, there’s a bunch of things the post office does if someone tries to use them to do this regularly and you ask the post office to do something. The issue therefore is if people complain and then X does absolutely nothing while having a plethora of reasonable options to stop this harassment.

https://faq.usps.com/s/article/What-Options-Do-I-Have-Regard...

You may file PS Form 1500 at a local Post Office to prevent receipt of unwanted obscene materials in the mail or to stop receipt of "obscene" materials in the mail. The Post Office offers two programs to help you protect yourself (and your eligible minor children).


Grok posts the pictures publicly, everyone can see them.

The postal network transports a letter, and only the person reading the letter can see the contents.

These situations are in no way comparable.


The difference is the post office isn't writing the letter.

if grok never existed and X instead ran a black-box-implementation "press button receive CP" webapp, X would be legally culpable and liable each time a user pressed the button, for production plus distribution

the same is true if the webapp has a blank "type what you want I'll make it for you" field and the user types "CP" and the webapp makes it.


That's NVME storage in your test?

Yes, a WD_BLACK 4TB SN850X NVMe.

> The sci fi version of the alignment problem is about AI agents having their own motives

The sci-fi version is alignment (not intrinsic motivation) though. Hal 9000 doesn't turn on the crew because it has intrinsic motivation, it turns on the crew because of how the secret instruction the AI expert didn't know about interacts with the others.


> As rocketry [becomes] more critical for our space infrastructure, I feel like this makes sense.

The justification for denying workers rights they would otherwise have was the extreme importance of moving essential goods. We're not going to have famines if SpaceX has a month long strike.


> We're not going to have famines if SpaceX has a month long strike.

But Ukrainian soldiers can and will die on the battlefield if Starlink has issues. We already know that it is vital for the Russians because their battle plans fell apart once SpaceX, the US and the Ukrainian government finally introduced a whitelist for terminals allowed to connect on Ukrainian soil. And SpaceX IIRC also operates a separate Starlink system for the US military.

This didn't pose an issue in the past because the DoD ran stuff on its own, no third party companies required... but heh, privatization rules...


There are also paths for the government to deny labor rights for military reasons.

That will come as well, this was just easier to do.

SpaceX is one of the few companies left that China isn't able to copy.



Nope


Not yet, at least not until the space rock mining begins.

Not then either, unless you like eating space rocks.

There could be a world where mineral supplies are exhausted/inaccessible to the point that extraterrestrial metals are needed to maintain the supply chains we need to feed billions of people.

Edit to say - that's probably a long way off / not likely


There could be a world where the muon radiation fallout of WWIV has contaminated all unmined terrestrial mineral sources.

> There could be a world where the muon radiation fallout of WWIV has contaminated all unmined terrestrial mineral sources.

All unmined terrestrial mineral sources? I don't know what the heck you're talking about, but that sounds like a world where everyone's dead. Pretty sure all the bomb shelters in the world are shallower than the deepest mine.


for all that elon is quite horrible by times, spacex is a meritocracy (that is hiring), and you have exactly one right in a meritocracy, which is to work harder and smarter. I feel that companys must be allowed to set up as meritocracys,(spitballing)for which I would add one twist, that they MUST hire a certain proportion of new people, on a first come first serve basis ie: anyone can give it a go, once.

Chat history would be a good signal to predict age until you give kids a reason to try to confound it.


I, for one, would love to see the gen alphas tiktoking about what 401k questions to type into chatgpt


Anyone remember the game Leisure Suit Larry? To get the full 18+ experience, you had to answer five trivia questions that only adults should know. But it turns out smart teens who like trivia knew most of them too (and you could just ask mom and dad, they had no clue why you were asking which President appeared on Laugh In).


Also, hilariously, a lot of those questions require a trip to Wikipedia (or a game guide) today. A lot of them reference bits of 1960s/1970s pop culture which are no longer common knowledge.

https://allowe.com/games/larry/tips-manuals/lsl1-age-quiz.ht...


A lot of them don't. Some appear to be specialized for children:

> Peter Piper picked pickled (peppers)

> How many molecules are there in a glass of water? (as many as there are)

There's also this one:

> Which is not a city in Mexico? (San Diego)

which appears to have been false at the time, and is still false now.


This is fun, I asked AI to come up with some modern ones to check someone is over 30. Zune, Friends, early memes, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, etc https://chat.deepseek.com/share/v9d5ckb8gv9rahwetq


>"Dental plan! Lisa needs braces!" is a workplace chant from...

OMG, That's absolutely unhinged to describe something that takes place entirely in Homer's head as a "workplace chant."


Spiro Agnew is a form of social disease, a jazz-fusion rock band, a former Vice President, the first woman in Congress?


Even more adults would be flagged as children.


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