I’m sure they’re going to try… But if they’re coming in with supplies, they’ve got to give them out. If they’ve got chainsaws, they’ve got to clear debris

You can’t just larp around a disaster area, not only is it hard to do as a human, survivors are not going to take kindly to it to say the least

Maybe they’re just going to go camping nearby and take some pictures. But if they do try to actually help, they’re find to see things that tend to bring out the humanity in people

Yeah… But I say let them try. Let them try to brush over people they can help, to their face

It’s not so easy to look them in the eyes. The suicide rate among concentration camp guards, and even the SS (who were picked for fanaticism), was insane

If they actually go and try to help, a lot of them are going to realize something. It’s easy to be a fascist in the abstract, it’s not so easy to confront the logical conclusions of fascism directly

Well it’s because FEMA, the national guard, and the army core of engineers would descend on the area like ants, and they would tell people “don’t help, you’ll get in the way, donate supplies over there if you like and go home - we need the local hotel rooms”

But when you cut disaster relief… There’s literally just parents out there searching for their children, they’re not turning anyone away

Yeah…wtf, I thought everyone switched to charcoal and salt and shit like a decade ago

No wonder we all have a plastic spoon in our brains

Okay? I’m frankly more worried about how they’re doing a genocide and killing medical care, but I still think meteorologists have shown their value through their absence

Lol. It already happened again in New Mexico…

You know, this has drastically increased my respect for meteorologists. I always thought they were convenient, but I generally just look outside for my weather

And I mean, I knew they were important for hurricanes and such… But holy shit, a few months after the cuts and rainstorms are killing dozens

I mean… It is genuinely hard to work for someone not evil. Let’s say you’re an AI engineer… Meta is probably the best because most of the non-corporate LLMs flow from there… But they’re also using it to build personalized echo chambers, which is horrible

OpenAI is at the top and Microsoft has shown every inclination to make it a monopoly, so I could understand wanting to work on competitors

You could go smaller and work somewhere like anthropic, but then you don’t have the resources to be on the cutting edge (depending on your specialty)

I blame people who buy Teslas more than those who work at Tesla at this point. Especially when they slow walk the bad things…I mean, Twitter would probably be less Nazi if more talent stayed onboard to resist institutionally

You can change jobs if the new one also sponsors you, and it’s my understanding that xAI tapped people from Tesla, but I might be wrong about that

Anyways, what’s happening sure looks like malicious compliance to me… It’s really not that hard to get an AI to list far right talking points, it’s just hard to bake it into the model

So you have people that made a pretty good model, but also can’t figure out basic AI infrastructure? I find that very hard to believe

I’m not. What would you do in this situation? Let’s throw in that you’re on a visa, so you can’t just quit

I’d maliciously comply.

You want access to the prompt? Here you go boss man. You want grok to share your Nazi views? Sorry sir, we’ll have to totally start over with training data. Or we could use a modified RAG

You want help with the prompt? Sure boss man, what do you want it to do? Oh, you want it to notice Jewish names? Sure boss man, I don’t know what you mean by that, but now it keeps saying it’s “noticing”. That’s weird

Oh, you want to fine-tune it on your tweets? Sure thing boss man… Oh, would you look at that, it thinks it’s you. Nothing can be done about that, it’s too much data from one source. Well, should we roll it back boss man? Your call

I’d just keep playing this game… Elon isn’t going to come out and say “I want grok to be a Nazi”, and I’m not going to read between the lines for him. I’m not going to come up with ideas to solve the problem, I’m going to let Elon’s ego direct the course and throw out “we’ve designed grok to seek truth over all else” as much as possible

Do they? Because every time I’ve looked at the issue, it seems like they manufactured a crisis out of a small number of unrelated home invasions

Yes, electronics are very cheap… But remember the part where they also have a mechanical mechanism? They have two systems, where most cars have this very simple lock that connects to a tiny motor assembly. It’s literally a piece of plastic and a few wires

The tablet thing is true, they’ve changed cars to computerize everything, and once you’ve done that you can connect everything over a network. Every button needs to do back to a chip to become a digital signal, so before you had these complex one-off wiring harnesses for everything

But the tablet thing is again, common. It makes sense, it’s just worse

But Elon is a unique case. Elon likes to actually make decisions, because he thinks he’s Tony Stark. He actually goes down into teams and hangs out, and they have to just work around whatever decisions he makes. It’s present in all of his companies, but you can see it most in Twitter, because they didn’t have time to build a team to strategically distract him when he comes to visit

This absolute idiot has spent the last month trying to get grok to be a literal Nazi. First, he added a bunch of white genocide to the prompt, making it change the topic to that from any question for a few days.

Now it’s responding all confused, and saying things like “I never gave Jeffrey Epstein tours of spaceX or Tesla” when asked it Elon did it. Seems to me they fed Elon’s tweets in the RAG system in a amateur way

He micromanages and meddles constantly… That’s what he does at his companies

For a counterexample, Jeff Bezos. He was heavily involved in the fire phone, and had some genuinely cool ideas… But the priorities were all wrong, so it flopped. He learned his lesson

No, the problem is they engineered something they didn’t need to, because Musk thinks everything should be electric because it’s cool. They had to then engineer a mechanical release, because it was required by law (for good reason)

Mechanical door locks would have been cheaper. The fly by wire in the cyber truck is far more expensive, heavier, and far more dangerous than the very well polished power steering systems every other car uses

Maybe it’s something like they wanted to make more money on repairs or something… But even that they could’ve done better by starting from very common, cheap technology

Let’s be clear… The real problem here is that Elon Musk, opinion having idiot that he is, made decisions from on high with very little understanding of engineering

Because it looks like candy. It feels like jelly. It’s individually wrapped in clear plastic, just like candy

Now, imagine someone leaves one of those on the counter, or in a random drawer. That’s where loose candy lives.

So of course other people, who maybe don’t do laundry and don’t often see tide pods, are going to go “oh, look, candy!”

And then they call poison control as they retch and the cells in the mouth turn to soap, and they get added to the statistics

Surely the prosecutor was there though, right?

They can also recommend a sentence, which is very problematic since the judge often uses it as a baseline. Especially since they’re also the one negotiating for plea deals

She was gardening right at me!