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Cake day: September 15th, 2023

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  • Thanks for the effort post with great tips!

    I would also really recommend having a physical community near you, not just online contacts.

    I would even go so far as to say: join a progressive protestant church It’s not a silver bullet, but the fascists in the US are Christian Nationalists and some of them will hesitate to mistreat a Christian. And some of them will feel an obligation towards a Christian.

    This is a big part of why Martin Luther King wasn’t killed earlier. The thugs in the 50s had no problem persecuting “godless heathens” in the McCarthy era, but black Christians were Christians.

    And yes, they were also mistreated, but it would have been much worse if they had been atheist or communist.

    Fascists divide the world very black and white. Us v. Them

    Looking like them provides a survival advantage.



  • You could have made this same analysis in 2000 and it would be equally valid.

    Yes, the business world is willing to pay big bucks to reduce labour costs and that business case is solid.

    But we already see that success is not determined by the size of the model, but by the data and providing and processing that data in a smart way to the AI. And the companies that are successful in this area are model agnostic. They can, and will, switch to cheaper to run models that are good enough for their purposes.

    So the dogma that whoever has the biggest model wins, just doesn’t apply. AI is already hitting diminishing returns.

    Once the investment money pumping the hype is gone, there will be a glut of capacity and a heavy price competition, which will drive down margins.









  • To know how exactly it works, we’d need to know details that aren’t public.

    But just speculating, if the creditors value the combined xAI+X higher than just X, then there is room to transfer the loan to the new company and away from Tesla.

    But whatever the details are, Elon isn’t an idiot when it comes to money. He definitely has advisors who cooked up the optimal way to profit from the AI hype.

    And the essence of that is that Tesla shareholders will be left holding the bag, while Elon utiizes X/xAI to capitalize on the hype.