• YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems
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    21 hours ago

    DOGE has so far failed to realize that marking people in the ancient Social Security database as 150 years old means they’re dead and not receiving payments.

    You know, I’m deeply curious where he thinks these payments are going? As in, are banks holding accounts for these people? Are they directly cashing checks somewhere? Even if social security is issuing the funds someone has to be receiving them and a casket, while a large up-front investment, can’t sign for deliveries as it were.

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    23 hours ago

    “The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy. The empathy exploit.”

    Musk wants to be Team Rocket.

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      Key:

      Things musk aligns with: ✅

      Things musk does not align with: ❌

      Neutral: 😐

      • 😐Prepare for trouble!
      • 😐And make it double!
      • ❌To protect the world from devastation!
      • ❌To unite all peoples within our nation!
      • ✅To denounce the evils of truth and love!
      • ✅To extend our reach to the stars above!
      • 😐Jessie!
      • 😐James!
      • ✅Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light!
      • ✅Surrender now, or prepare to fight!
      • 😐Meowth!
      • ✅That’s right!

      Uhh, hmm. Fuck

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    Was this the Musk and Rogan episode where Musk revealed a powerful new Grok ability? (It can now say shit and fuck) and laughed really oddly about it?

    Also, despite following LW style people (he follow(s/ed) slatestarcodex on twitter), he again shows that he doesn’t understand the LW fears of AGI. Worrying about a woke nanny AGI, and not the woke wirehead AGI (wireheading being a lot scarier).

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      Worrying about a woke nanny AGI, and not the woke wirehead AGI (wireheading being a lot scarier).

      This is very much the right-wing mainstream fear - not being able to generate Nazi memes with OpenAI

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        Yeah, he seems more neonazi than nrx to me, that and lashing out towards people who he imagines wronged him. The FAA for example cancelled a contract with him to do some starlink stuff because it was unreliable and slow (approved under trump, cancelled under biden) USAID was investigating him etc. His doge goons are nrx and dismantling everything using AI and dumb regexps, but his focus seems very personal. (Not that it matters as both the neonazis and nrx are bad, delenda est, and they have no trouble working together (so far, the backlash when it all fails is going to be interesting. Musk is already on his default ‘shit is going bad’ moves. Which is trying to change the way the metrics are calculated so you cant notice the fraud. (His GDP bs))).

        E: the nazi memes thing, reminds me of the fear of ‘the left’ cancelling classical literature thing. Which in 99% of the cases turned out to be things like, some random science fiction book, which was changed by the publishers/author/their estate, and the thing changed was the removal of slurs or just iffyly racist chapters.