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Imagine today's AI several years ago, the Democrats could have used AI to generate ten times the disinformation about Trump and the Russians instead of having Steele write one dossier.


The craziest thing is, regardless how people feel about politics, Musk has achieved a lot for technology yet people in technology forums disparage him. I guess politics trumps technology.


> The craziest thing is

I wouldn't call it crazy to point to someone with a documented history of lying and say that their word can't be trusted. Rather, that's called basic pattern recognition.


One man's lie is another man's "4D chess move".


The dancing robot has to be more than a 4D chess move. That's gotta be at least 7 or 8 D chess.


As an early owner of a Model S with FSD, he's also made a lot of objectively false claims that burned customers and have nothing to do with politics.


He successfully marketed and monetized an industry that already existed and would continue to exist without him, then reinvested in that industry to make himself more money. The way you and some others talk about him you would think he invented batteries and was the first one to discover you can use electricity to make a car move.


Integrity matters. He has none. You can't say things that aren't true over and over and expect to be believed the next time.


The parroted introduction has me reading this comment in bad faith, but I'll bite anyway. What are some of his personal tech achievements? Emphasis on personal.


"Achieving a lot for technology" does not put one above criticism.


both are true. he's achieved amazing things, seriously pushing technology forwards

he also makes outlandish public claims which are ridiculous at the time and get worse with age. you can appreciate what he's done while simultaneously believing 0% of what leaves his mouth


He has a notorious habit of overpromising and underdelivering. I thought that habit of his was well established even before he became so vocally political.


You have to wonder if working for four or five different companies while, allegedly, being on _all the drugs_ has an impact on his performance.

If Musk ran Apple we'd still be waiting on the iPhone XS, though he'd insist it'll be ready by "end of year", a phone that launched around the time Musk was crowing about these trucks.


It was, but it was the politics that swung the opinion pendulum from pathological "admire wins, ignore losses" to pathological "ignore wins, disparage losses."


Nonetheless

I have to agree with both you and parent reply

it's possible if it wasn't or trade wars it would've been easy to source batteries from china but who can control geo politics :)


But Musk himself has said that American EV makers can't compete against Chinese EVs without trade barriers. Barriers that western governments have been more than happy to establish.

> "If there are no trade barriers established, they will pretty much demolish most other car companies in the world," he said. "They're extremely good."

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-...


Or maybe, just maybe, it’s that the dude spews whatever out of his mouth and the broader public and media take him at his word when time again its been seen that his word doesn’t mean shit.


I have partial color blindness and glaucoma which I think aren't related to my inability to read dark themes. When I try to read white or light text on a dark background, something in my eyes start flashing and I develop a headache in less than 60 seconds, it's been like that my whole life.


That would work but, I run no browser extensions.


It wouldn't be a vulnerability if we can request it to show its output in a legible theme, none that I can see, what am I missing?


What you're asking for potentially involves ChatGPT to be able to arbitrarily manipulate page-level CSS, which could in theory be exploited for nefarious purposes, maybe by a system prompt from the ChatGPT store.


Highly recommend blocking the ssh port on all public facing instances and machines. Remember the recent xz/ssh backdoor exploit that was discovered.

What if there is another backdoor lurking undiscovered?

Do what I did, only open ssh over a VPN, or at least restrict it to a specific inbound IP or CIDR block under your direct control.


What if there's another backdoor lurking in your VPN software? Why are you more confident in your VPN than SSH? Of those two pieces of software, which do you think has more eyes on it?


Maybe it's the whole processing and weighting thing that gives people cause for concern.


Well then welcome to being a human, because the gatekeepers of knowledge have been doing this since the beginning of time. What do you think the priestly class's original job was?


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