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  1. 7 hours ago, immamac said:

    You missed the point of the comparison. It's lack of accountability for the actual job instead of personal enrichment or benefit. He chose to personally benefit instead of doing his fucking job and will be rewarded for it by the board who are deranged Maga bootlicker fucks. 

    Keep talking like that and you're gonna have your Aggy ring confiscated :P

  2. Yep.  Aristotle said, "Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom".  But when someone has more money than their great, great grandchildren and any descendants in between could ever spend, they never need to get to know themselves and who they really are. They can be whoever they want to be -- even unsuccessfully.  Their money prevents the intrusion of reality on their psyche.  Which isn't to say all billionaires are stunted wunderkinds.  But it is something that is a danger for them, and I think it's pretty undebatable at this point that Elon's on this path.

    This is why I wouldn't trust my personal well being with any of Musk's products.  Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, etc... all require you to put your safety, health and well-being in the hands of an Elon Musk led company.  And I only want my health and well-being in the hands of a company that has an inviolate "safety-first" attitude.  Elon's companies have an inviolate "Elon-first" attitude.  Decisions are being made solely on how they make the CEO feel within his alternate reality bubble.

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  3. 1 hour ago, BeardIP said:

    Investors love this guy though:

    Elon Musk’s xAI is reportedly close to raising $6 billion. The fund-raising round, which would include investors such as Sequoia Capital, would value the artificial intelligence start-up at about $18 billion, according to The Information. It would be one of the biggest cash hauls in an A.I. start-up amid a heated innovation race, and shows investors are spreading their bets: Sequoia is already a big investor in OpenAI.

    ETA Link: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/musks-xai-is-close-to-raising-6-billion-from-sequoia-others

    Something I've seen pretty regularly in startup life is that greatness in a startup context does not necessarily equate to greatness in a big company context.  Some people flourish on the frontier where the rules are being made up as you go.  You don't have to worry about things like regulation or compliance.  No laws exist affecting a new industry.  Everything is about getting to market and shotgunning ideas at users until you find something that clicks.  Put someone like that at IBM where you have to worry about EU privacy laws and shit before you do anything, and they aren't nearly as successful.  And they hate it.  All that big company shit feels like bureaucratic red tape introducing drag on their "spirit of innovation."

    Elon strikes me as someone like that.  Someone who could only flourish on the frontier where the rules and laws are what he says they are.  The problem for current investors in his more mature companies is that he is rich enough to never have to really learn that about himself.  He can still lead these companies beyond that context in a failing way without their being many consequences.  He and the current investors/stock holders would be much better off if he hand picked successors to lead things like Tesla after he has incubated them through a start-up phase.  Especially because with each new capitalistic tar baby he creates and holds control of, he gets spread a little more thin.

    I don't think early investors have been burned by him yet.  I could be wrong about that.  I don't follow Elon news religiously, and I don't have a full timeline of his business history.  But I think as far as early investors are concerned, he's still a winning horse.  That will be true until he's not.  Soon enough, as all these roles and responsibilities continue to be consolidated into a single increasingly erratic individual, something has to give.  Does he give Tesla and its problems the time and attention they deserve?   Does he give SpaceX and its problems the time and attention they deserve?  Does he give xAI and its problems the time and attention they deserve?

    My guess is he'll enjoy the time and attention he gives to a new venture like xAI, and if something more mature and banal like Tesla or SpaceX suffers, so be it.  Why does he care?  He's got generational fuck you money.  Will his ego allow him to relinquish control of those more mature companies so they can be competently led by someone suited for where they are at in their growth cycle?

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  4. 6 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    Oh come on.  I am sure that you can find something to jerk off to in this one.

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  5. The thing I find most interesting about all of this is that halfway across the globe, Israel can fuck the Palestinians and/or vice versa and it results in highly publicized clashes between protestors and law enforcement in the United States during an election year.

    Heaven help us if someone farts in Eastern Europe.

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  6. 42 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/26/24141403/tesla-autopilot-nhtsa-investigation-recall-software-fix

     

     

     

     

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    Updates to Autopilot that Tesla has rolled out following the initial fix are also being evaluated to determine why they weren't included in the initial recall update. Every Autopilot-equipped Tesla vehicle produced between 2012 and 2024 — including the Cybertruck, which is already being recalled over defective accelerator pedals — is subject to the new probe.

    This isn’t the first time that this software update has been scrutinized. Robotics expert and former NHTSA senior safety advisor Missy Cummings said the recall remedy was “very vague” shortly after it was announced and would likely “not be as robust as NHTSA would like to see.” Tests from safety experts at Consumer Report also found the update “doesn’t go far enough to prevent misuse or address the root causes of driver inattention.”

     

    Similarly https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/26/24141361/tesla-autopilot-fsd-nhtsa-investigation-report-crash-death.  Tl;dr Tesla is Ocean's Gate on wheels.

    Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths

    In March 2023, a North Carolina student was stepping off a school bus when he was struck by a Tesla Model Y traveling at “highway speeds,” according to a federal investigation that published today. The Tesla driver was using Autopilot, the automaker’s advanced driver-assist feature that Elon Musk insists will eventually lead to fully autonomous cars.

    The 17-year-old student who was struck was transported to a hospital by helicopter with life-threatening injuries. But what the investigation found after examining hundreds of similar crashes was a pattern of driver inattention, combined with the shortcomings of Tesla’s technology, resulting in hundreds of injuries and dozens of deaths.

    Drivers using Autopilot or the system’s more advanced sibling, Full Self-Driving, “were not sufficiently engaged in the driving task,” and Tesla’s technology “did not adequately ensure that drivers maintained their attention on the driving task,” NHTSA concluded.

    In total, NHTSA investigated 956 crashes, starting in January 2018 and extending all the way until August 2023. Of those crashes, some of which involved other vehicles striking the Tesla vehicle, 29 people died. There were also 211 crashes in which “the frontal plane of the Tesla struck a vehicle or obstacle in its path.” These crashes, which were often the most severe, resulted in 14 deaths and 49 injuries.

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    NHTSA was prompted to launch its investigation after several incidents of Tesla drivers crashing into stationary emergency vehicles parked on the side of the road. Most of these incidents took place after dark, with the software ignoring scene control measures, including warning lights, flares, cones, and an illuminated arrow board.

    In its report, the agency found that Autopilot — and, in some cases, FSD — was not designed to keep the driver engaged in the task of driving. Tesla says that it warns its customers that they need to pay attention while using Autopilot and FSD, which includes keeping their hands on the wheels and eyes on the road. But NHTSA says that in many cases, drivers would become overly complacent and lose focus. And when it came time to react, it was often too late.

    In 59 crashes examined by NHTSA, the agency found that Tesla drivers had enough time, “five or more seconds,” prior to crashing into another object in which to react. In 19 of those crashes, the hazard was visible for 10 or more seconds before the collision. Reviewing crash logs and data provided by Tesla, NHTSA found that drivers failed to brake or steer to avoid the hazard in a majority of the crashes analyzed.

    “Crashes with no or late evasive action attempted by the driver were found across all Tesla hardware versions and crash circumstances,” NHTSA said.

    NHTSA also compared Tesla’s Level 2 (L2) automation features to products available in other companies’ vehicles. Unlike other systems, Autopilot would disengage rather than allow drivers to adjust their steering. This “discourages” drivers from staying involved in the task of driving, NHTSA said.

    A comparison of Tesla’s design choices to those of L2 peers identified Tesla as an industry outlier in its approach to L2 technology by mismatching a weak driver engagement system with Autopilot’s permissive operating capabilities.

    Even the brand name “Autopilot” is misleading, NHTSA said, conjuring up the idea that drivers are not in control. While other companies use some version of “assist,” “sense,” or “team,” Tesla’s products lure drivers into thinking they are more capable than they are. California’s attorney general and the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles are both investigating Tesla for misleading branding and marketing.

    NHTSA acknowledges that its probe may be incomplete based on “gaps” in Tesla’s telemetry data. That could mean there are many more crashes involving Autopilot and FSD than what NHTSA was able to find.

    Tesla issued a voluntary recall late last year in response to the investigation, pushing out an over-the-air software update to add more warnings to Autopilot. NHTSA said today it was launching a new investigation into the recall after a number of safety experts said the update was inadequate and still allowed for misuse.

    The findings cut against Musk’s insistence that Tesla is an artificial intelligence company that is on the cusp of releasing a fully autonomous vehicle for personal use. The company plans to unveil a robotaxi later this year that is supposed to usher in this new era for Tesla. During this week’s first quarter earnings call, Musk doubled down on the notion that his vehicles were safer than human-driven cars.

    “If you’ve got, at scale, a statistically significant amount of data that shows conclusively that the autonomous car has, let’s say, half the accident rate of a human-driven car, I think that’s difficult to ignore,” Musk said. “Because at that point, stopping autonomy means killing people.”

     

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  7. 1 hour ago, Incredulity said:

    It's revealing of your character that you think its ok to chase Jewish people around Columbia University chanting about their extermination and repeatedly attempt to burn down Federal Courthouses with hundreds of federal employees inside.

    Dude, where did anyone post anything remotely confusable with this?

  8. 13 hours ago, F250 said:

    I'm not an experienced moderator but I would suggest replying to all those reports with dick pics.

    The idea that grown men run off to the mods complaining about this kind of thing just bottles the mind.

     

    I think a technical solution is in order.  Whenever those posters access any URL on this site, I would have them redirected to the old scat site.

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  9. If the supreme court gives the President immunity from prosecution, the next President can act with an assumed impunity.  That's true regardless of who is elected in November.  It could be true for the current sitting President.

    Which makes me wonder, what are the odds either Biden or Trump2 is assassinated before leaving office?

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  10. Guys, he's going to revolutionize cloud computing with his intardnet of shitty things.  What could possibly go wrong with the world's first completely decentralized and fully mobile data center?

    https://www.theverge.com/24139142/elon-musk-tesla-aws-distributed-compute-network-ai

    Elon Musk wants to turn Tesla’s fleet into AWS for AI — would it work?

    Musk, who loves to riff on earnings calls, compared the unused compute power of millions of idle Tesla vehicles to Amazon’s cloud service business. If they’re just sitting there, he mused, why not put them to good use to run AI models? (Also, have you ever really looked at your hands? No, I mean really looked?)

    “There’s a potential... when the car is not moving to actually run distributed inference,” Musk said. “If you imagine the future perhaps where there’s a fleet of 100 million Teslas and on average, they’ve got like maybe a kilowatt of inference compute. That’s 100 gigawatts of inference compute, distributed all around the world.”

    So, to summarize, you buy a Tesla. It’s your property. But Musk wants to freely use the unused compute power in your vehicle for... something? Possibly AI-related? Hopefully not the blockchain. (Tesla is an AI company now, by the way. Musk said so himself during the call.)

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