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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 hours ago

I knew this was his endgame. Prepare to go full "Minority Report".

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Well at least there is no clear conflict of interest /s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 minutes ago (1 children)

Well, his AI is the only I he has...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 minutes ago

I know you’re joking, but it’s really dangerous to assume your enemy is an idiot. He isn’t stupid, he’s evil. If he were stupid he would not be the richest man in the world clawing still more gold into his hoard.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago

I like AI, but it definitely isn't ready for something so important as governance.

Which is why it is perfect for DOGEbags: They want to break everything, and just say the AI is at fault. Odds are that they will blame gay furry hackers for trying to ruin everything.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I will be the first to lean into the fact that over the next 5 years, workflow in every company will change dramatically. It's going to be like the shift from no one having email, to everyone doing business by email.

But you know what's a bad idea? Rawdogging that change in real time, on spec, with your human workflow staff out in the street, and your staff are politically-appointed children, all while things like critical infrastructure, healthcare, nukes, air traffic, and the military are your "in production" assets that might go down. All to try and be the guy that shoves his AI in the gap.

All governments moved to email slowly because, among other reasons, email is inherently insecure. Email use by governments, records laws, and encryption standards progressed together. None of those types of knock-ons are considered here.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Musk's various ponzi schemes, up to the Artemis-killing SpaceX fiasco, were coming due. Trump provided the opportunity for him to pivot into government, by replacing it with his AI, gps with starlink, air traffic control with whatever he comes up with, etc etc etc, making himself even more too big to fail. The US government the latest offering on the ponzi|pyramid. Trump's ideology aligning with Musk's own true beliefs is a bonus.

It will severely weaken the US in direct measurable short and long-term ways, to the point it is a real disaster for the US. Those to blame are all those that never called him out throughout his rise. Not to mention those governments (Republican and Democrat) who fed him public money throughout the entire period.

Edit - Bezos's The Washington Post is apparently supporting him now. No surprise, they want an oligarchy. The Democrats are moving rightward, they are more or less happy with it too.

I guess it is some version of the land of the free home of the brave, but maybe it is the freedom to do what you want if you're rich, and have been brave enough to brazenly take everything and exploit everyone.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

All of DOGE "plans" seem like shit that was cooked up by immature teenagers and drug addled brains, because they are.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Elon and his team of ketamin demons

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly, thats an insult to demons.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 52 minutes ago

Insult to ketamine too.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Looks like Musk is using the Japanize "drying river"-model that's like starter lever shit in economics. Doing that on a society level is insanely stupid.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 51 minutes ago

He seems to go on these benders, that probably involve copious amounts of uppers, where he get these bright ideas. The fact that someone like that has control over our whole government and economy is scary.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

I work with a team of very talented AI and ML folks. I think it works quite well in certain usecases. These are not they.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 hours ago

DOGE ~~Plan to Push AI Across the US Federal Government~~ is Wildly Dangerous.

Fixed that for you.

[–] [email protected] 100 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (5 children)

McDonald's couldn't even get AI to take drive-through orders properly. Musk wants it to run the government without even doing a test run first.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 minutes ago

And Elonia can't even get rockets to not explode.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago

“Just test in prod” - Elongated Muskrat

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

He's either

  • an incompetent moron who thinks AI eventually will be like in the movies, you just need to push throught its teething pains,
  • someone that tries to destroy the government and its services through weaponized incompetence, so they can be privatized,
  • both, because I saw way too many things in real life.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 65 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

That's because he and his kind believe government is useless and can just be broken without losing anything important. From their point of view, government is just a thing that takes money from them and spends it on people who don't deserve to live because they're not asshole billionaire techbros. And it makes poor people's lives slightly less unpleasant by giving them money and services, which billionaires don't like because it makes the poor less desperate and exploitable.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

That's because he and his kind believe government is useless and can just be broken without losing anything important.

kinda like racks of servers that keep a social media site used by 100s of millions of users? the ones muskrat just yanked willy-nilly out of a data center and loaded onto uhauls? it took weeks for twitter to repair that damage.

[–] artificialfish 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

It was around Sept 2023: https://futurism.com/elon-musk-moved-twitter-servers-himself

You can also just search: "Elon Musk Twitter server move" and the terms "Sacramento" or "Pocket Knife" might help.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago

The government IS the test run.

[–] [email protected] 113 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Here's how you know it's not ready: AI hasn't replaced a single CEO.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Man, I want to be at that shareholder meeting; "how about we just don't have a CEO and pocket the savings?"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Then they’ll replace the board with AI. Guess who will control the AI?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 minutes ago

Until AI owns stocks, the board will not be replaced with AI.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

I tried that recently on the Gemini 2.0 flash and it got it wildly wrong as well. Seems strange AI seems to struggle with it.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

He's looking more and more like Kim Jong Un by the day..

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 hours ago

I don't think even kim jong un looks as stupid as this guy on a regular basis.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago

I bet it conveniently comes with a contract for xai. By a complete coincidence and definitely not more criminal behavior.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

My grandpa loved shouting social security codes with their names, can you please do that while celebrating like he used to?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

And ~~if~~ when the AI fails, buddy billionaires will be there to offer privatized alternative, for a fee of course.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Jesus Christ. Would someone just 80s arcade game kidnap him already and scare him aleady?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Do like the arcade machines and unplug 'em.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 hours ago

They want this so they can blame the computer when it makes a bad decision which is actually just parroting what they want

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 hours ago

Its also just like. Its not there yet.

It cant make a full wine glass.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 hours ago

Elon is the sort of person to (pay someone) to play universal paperclips and then wonder why they didn’t ask the AI to instead make money.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

its icetown all over again!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago

Musk wishes he was half the man Ben Wyatt is!

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