Is this cash or compute? Elon has one of the world's biggest compute clusters spun up, and little inference demand to speak of.
Trading billions worth of idle compute, in exchange for a high-strike call option on the #3 player in the most-promising-vertical for AI, plus (presmuably) some access to their data, starts to sound like not a bad trade. Especially if you're pre-committed to betting your entire rocket company on winning in AI, and you're currently in sixth or seventh place.
> you're pre-committed to betting your entire rocket company on winning in AI
SpaceX has invested a small amount as a share of its value in XAI, and could survive the loss of its investment.
It's true he could write off xAI today and the company could still fetch a trillion-dollar valuation. But I was more referring to his stated intentions - between his stated plans, his actions taking SpaceX from a profitable company to spending basically all their revenue (plus a rumored large chunk of what's raised via its IPO) on AI, and seeing his tendency to make bet-the-farm bets on Tesla, I think it's fair to say he's committing to bet all of SpaceX on xAI.
I heard he made a deal with a company to use his clusters. Is there good data on demand for Grok? Seems like relatively little chatter at least, in spite of tremendous investment.
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I hate Trump as much as the next guy, but what is that evidence, again?
He had a very close, decades long friendship with the most notorious sex-trafficker-of-children-to-rich-creeps in modern history for decades. And when imprisoned, that infamous pedophile died while in a federal prison under Trump's control, with a strange gap in the CCTV video footage. And Trump's handling of the entire Epstein Files saga makes it clear that Trump is described extensively in those files and he desperately wants to conceal it. What could be in there that he would use the entire justice department to try and redact? Trump is shameless about things that are legal even if they're salacious (like sleeping with porn star Stormy Daniels), so you have to wonder, what could Jeffery Epstein's good friend be trying to conceal?
Also, he owned the Miss Universe org (including Miss USA and Miss Teen USA) for decades, and he was known to walk into the dressing rooms of teen contestants as young as 15 while they were undressed. [0]
Also, he bragged about molesting women, and a court of law found that he sexually assaulted E Jean Carroll.
I haven't proven the case that Trump had sex with a minor, but there's way more than enough probable cause to believe it's more likely than not.
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20200111171647/https://www.rolli...
Obviously this looks very bad but you don't seriously think it constitutes evidence?
you don't seriously think it constitutes evidence? Do you even know what the word evidence mean? It is not the same as proof.
Maybe you would want to insert the term "circumstantial" or so.
Definitionally both circumstantial and direct evidence are forms of evidence. No modifier is necessary.
And incidentally you can be convicted in a court of law purely on circumstantial evidence, and that's the place in society where we have the highest standard of proof. The evidence all being circumstantial is not a gotcha.
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-evidence-corroborates-clai...
Yeah that's pretty bad.
This isn't court. The evidence, such as it is, is all of the smoke which commonly motivates people to look for fire. The strongest and most comprehensive that I've seen is the argument that if Trump was not implicated in the Epstein files, he would be publishing them in free book form himself and forcing every media outlet to advertise it. Slight exaggeration, but I think truly only slight.
Not really relevant to the thread, but there are simple answers to the "eViDeNcE??" question. You may have already known this.
Again, circumstantial and speculative.
Clearly you don’t and that disingenuousness is frowned upon in discussions here.
So, where’s the evidence?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-evidence-corroborates-clai...
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Someone who works on a “sugar dating” app advocating for synthetic child porn? That’s… uncomfortable?
To say the least. Great catch! 'O brave new world, that has such people in 't.'
Has the availability of deepfake porn generation reduced the demand for deepfake porn featuring real people? When deepfake generators are capable of creating convincing imagery of flawless ideal fake humans, why do you suppose there’s so many real humans who report being non-consensual subjects of deepfake porn?
> Has the availability of deepfake porn generation reduced the demand for deepfake porn featuring real people?
yes
> When deepfake generators are capable of creating convincing imagery of flawless ideal fake humans, why do you suppose there’s so many real humans who report being non-consensual subjects of deepfake porn?
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One obvious argument is what it was trained on.
Doesn't have to be. You can train it on normal pictures of children and nude images of adults.
> Doesn't have to be. You can train it on normal pictures of children and nude images of adults.
You say this so casually, as though it were a normal thing to know, or as if a normal person would know it. Does that actually seem true where you live right now?
And how do you know that, anyway, Harsh? I mean, all those "unblocked" games you stole to give away and that you also put on Github, that's one thing. But this...
Come on, it's not hard to come up with this idea. And it's not even true, model trained on clothed children and nude adults wouldn't know how children's genitals look like.
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If it's not in an 8K filing it isn't real.