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Is Elon Musk Nuts?

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Wednesday, January 4, 2023 12:12 AM

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Elon Musk Goes Nuclear: ‘*Every* Social Media Company Is Engaged in Heavy Censorship’ at the ‘Explicit Direction of the Government’ . . . Google ‘Makes Links Disappear’

https://theamericantribune.com/elon-musk-drops-bomb-on-big-tech-claims
-this-woke-company-makes-links-disappear
/



That was obvious to anybody paying attention.

If you can't find it on Google, just search on Yahoo or Bing. If you still can't find it there, go to DogPile, DuckDuckGo or install the TOR browser.

If whatever your searching for isn't part of the Leftoid bullshit narrative or something completely unrelated to politics, you won't find it on Google.

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Monday, February 27, 2023 3:56 PM

the Richest African speaks out!

Elon Musk claims US media is 'racist against whites and Asians' and appears to back Dilbert creator who warned people to 'stay the f**k away from blacks' - as WaPo and NY Times drop comic strip

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11796139/Elon-Musk-claims-med
ia-racist-against-whites-Asians-supports-Dilbert-creator.html

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Friday, March 3, 2023 8:23 AM

Oh, Elon. When Musk can't even bring himself to promise something, it hasn't even reached the "draw a picture on a napkin and yell at an engineer to make it happen" stage.

Today's big Tesla "INVESTOR DAY" presentation was 4 hours of argle-bargle:

Tesla Inc. shares dropped more than 5% in the extended session Wednesday after the electric-vehicle maker teased a “next generation” electric vehicle platform but stopped short of unveiling many details in a much-hyped event.

At the end of a four-hour investor day presentation, Chief Executive Elon Musk sidestepped a question that sought details about the new vehicles’ performance and looks, the prototype timeline, and whether Tesla would start making them at an existing factory before moving production to its future Mexico factory, as it intends to do.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230302161018/https://www.marketwatch.com
/story/tesla-stock-veers-between-gains-and-losses-as-investor-day-gets-under-way-a7719bc0


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Friday, March 3, 2023 8:52 AM

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Elon Musk claims US media is 'racist against whites and Asians'



It is.

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and appears to back Dilbert creator who warned people to 'stay the f**k away from blacks'


Working the type of jobs I've worked half my working life, I've worked with more minorities than most white folk. Plenty of fine black folks out there.

A lot of them are racist cunts too. I don't run into too many of those types since most of them don't have jobs and couldn't hold one down if one was given to them anyhow.

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Friday, March 3, 2023 7:04 PM

Elon Musk thinks we’re close to solving AI. That doesn’t make it true.

What he gets right — and very wrong — about AI, from driverless cars to ChatGPT.

An awful lot of what he says about AI has been wrong. Most notoriously, none of his forecasts about timelines for self-driving cars have been correct. In October 2016, he predicted that a Tesla would drive itself from California to New York by 2017. (It didn’t.) Tesla has deployed a technology called “Autopilot,” but everybody in the industry knows that name is a fib, more marketing than reality. Teslas are nowhere close to being able to drive themselves; the software is still so buggy seven years after Tesla started rolling it out that a human driver still must pay attention at all times.

Musk also seems to consistently misunderstand the relationship between natural (human) intelligence and artificial intelligence. He’s repeatedly argued that Teslas don’t need Lidar — a sensing system that virtually every other autonomous vehicle company relies on — on the basis of a misleading comparison between human vision and cameras in driverless cars. While it’s true that humans don’t need Lidar to drive, current AI doesn’t seem anywhere close enough to being able to understand and deal with a full array of road conditions without it. Driverless cars need Lidar as a crutch precisely because they don’t have human-like intelligence.

Teslas can’t even consistently avoid crashing into stopped emergency vehicles, a problem that the company has failed to solve for more than five years. For reasons still not publicly disclosed, the perceptual and decision-making systems for the cars haven’t managed to drive with sufficient reliability yet, without human intervention.

ChatGPT isn’t the profound AI advance that it seems

Despite a spotty track record, Musk continues to make pronouncements about AI, and when he does, people take it seriously. His latest, first reported by CNBC and picked up widely thereafter, took place a few weeks ago at the World Government Summit in Dubai. Some of what Musk said is, in my professional judgment, spot-on — and some of it is way off.

What was most wrong was his implication that we are close to solving AI — or reaching so-called “artificial general intelligence” (AGI) with the flexibility of human intelligence — claiming that ChatGPT “has illustrated to people just how advanced AI has become.”

That’s just silly. To some people, especially those who haven’t been following the AI field, the degree to which ChatGPT can mimic human prose seems deeply surprising. But it’s also deeply flawed. A truly superintelligent AI would be able to tell true from false, to reason about people and objects and science, and to be as versatile and quick in learning new things as humans are — none of which the current generation of chatbots is capable of. All ChatGPT can do is predict text that might be plausible in different contexts based on the enormous body of written work it’s been trained on, but it has no regard for whether what it spits out is true. (Same as Musk.)

More at https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23622120/elon-musk-solve-ai-chatgpt
-wrong


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Friday, March 3, 2023 7:09 PM

I remember when you guys loved Elon and believed everything he said, even though he was just as wrong about everything back then as he is now.

If he said he hated Trump you'd still be buying all the lies and incorrect predictions.



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Friday, March 3, 2023 7:34 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I remember when you guys loved Elon and believed everything he said, even though he was just as wrong about everything back then as he is now.

If he said he hated Trump you'd still be buying all the lies and incorrect predictions.

You remember the past differently than I do. That is unsurprising since Musk and Trumptards have memory dysfunction, especially about their own pasts. When they tell me their histories, where we both were at the same place at the same time, they are always the steadfast heroes, not the confused chickens running in circles squawking they actually were.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Wednesday, March 8, 2023 2:43 AM

Elon Musk says upcoming documentary about him is ‘a hit piece’

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/elon-musk-says-upcoming-documentary-19
0142025.html

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Thursday, March 9, 2023 9:19 PM

Elon Musk looked damn stupid when he found out the disabled guy he's just fired and publicly called a faking, lazy, workshy layabout sold his design company to Twitter with a proviso that if he was ever fired by Twitter, it would have to pay him the total buyout fee for his company of $100 million. The deal was structured to pay the maximum payroll taxes (long story) to Iceland, but Musk understood nothing, nothing at all.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/07/elon-musk-twitter-e
mployee-feud-haraldur-thorleifsson


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Thursday, March 9, 2023 10:04 PM

I guess he'll have to dig into his couch cushions for that money.

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