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[nowhat]

Like “sorry, instead of ‘humor’ my AI bot had ‘dumb agression’ set to 80%”.

Hate to break this to you, but Elon's AI is woke.

Elon Musk’s Grok Twitter AI Is Actually ‘Woke,’ Hilarity Ensues

Grok has been launched as a benefit to Twitter’s (now X’s) expensive X Premium+ subscription tier, where those who are the most devoted to the site, and in turn, usual...

www.forbes.com

 

[Aces High]

Yea but he's a "genius" because he has money. You can be a artist and want to paint amazing pictures but if other people are doing the painting for you and you're taking the credit then you're not a "genius". Smart business man to take over things that have already started and improve? Sure. People need to stop glazing this man hardcore. It's like Elon going on about how they decided on the name Tesla, the name was already established in 2003 by Marc and Martin before he brute forced his way in

He just got lucky...
He didn't do it himself...
He has rich parents...

Nope

It's a mistake to conflate intelligence with charisma. Musk doesn't represent himself well in social settings, but his business track record speaks for itself.

Musk just won the US presidency with his candidate. You think he was the only player in this game? Gates lost. Next up: German elections. Gates' candidates don't seem to do very good. Musk's candidates are on the rise.

Spoiler

(For the fact checkers, here's a source that lists how the German green/left government invested more than 600 millions into Gates foundation, and how Gates foundation funded candidate Robert Habeck who is German vice chancellor today: source)

These 0,01% elites usually have their own personal PR teams. Gates definitely has. Musk often does it freestyle. But that doesn't take away from his business skills and global influence. Musk is operating on such a high level in our civilisation, I'm actually surprised he is interested in us NPCs at all. "What a loser, I feel sorry for him" - no, you're so focused on your personal dislike of hin that you can't see the bigger picture.

I always thought the biggest advantage of Elon Musk is that people are so used to being lied to by communication professionals that they don't know how to handle a global elite person who doesn't give a fuck at all.

 

[Johnny Concrete]

Hate to break this to you, but Elon's AI is woke.

Elon Musk’s Grok Twitter AI Is Actually ‘Woke,’ Hilarity Ensues

Grok has been launched as a benefit to Twitter’s (now X’s) expensive X Premium+ subscription tier, where those who are the most devoted to the site, and in turn, usual...

www.forbes.com

That explains the dumb aggression setting..

 

[nowhat]

a global elite person who doesn't give a fuck at all

If he doesn't give a fuck, why does he submit himself to petty bullshit like this?

 

[Allandor]

As if “just” being a great businessman and a “big picture” visionary is somehow a lesser thing than being a great engineer.

There are millions of insanely smart and talented engineers out there. How many of them could’ve bought an electric car company, kept it alive for years on the brink of bankruptcy, then turn it into the world’s most valuable car company?

That's correct, he did that. But when it goes to Elon, he is more or less saying, that he invented all that stuff and knows everything about it. In reality he just knows how to hire the right people.
Elon is a lot like Trump in that regard. He can't accept that he doesn't know or can't do something. And instead of just saying that he isn't an expert in everything he lies instead and does like he is the best of the best in that topic.

Next things Elon does is buying the games company to manipulate the database so he is in the top 10.

 

[Aces High]

If he doesn't give a fuck, why does he submit himself to petty bullshit like this?

Doesn't give a fuck about PR best practices.

 

[nowhat]

Doesn't give a fuck about PR best practices.

So insisting on being a petty man-child, gotcha.

 

[bighugeguns]

Nerd fights are the best.

 

[Aces High]

So insisting on being a petty man-child, gotcha.

Again: you don't see the forest for the trees.

If I work with an oligarch and I fuck up and the oligarch's only reaction is to publicly blame me in a petty-man child manner on social media, I can consider myself very lucky.

 

[nowhat]

Again: you don't see the forest for the trees.

If I work with an oligarch and I fuck up and the oligarch's only reaction is to publicly blame me in a petty-man child manner on social media, I can consider myself very lucky.

I... honestly. I'm trying. I don't see your analogy at all. What happened was:

• Saint Musk claimed he's ranked among the top players in the world on a very grind-heavy, early access game
• Does a live streaming touting the fact, it becomes very obvious he hasn't played the game, let alone any ARPG at all
• Hilarity ensues
• YouTube roach Asmongold (or, as per Steve from GN, Assmongol) cannibalizes content for the views
• Then there's some back and forth in ex-Twitter

How did anyone but Musk fuck up here? How did Assmongol (yes, I like it) both work with Musk and fuck up. If there's a language barrier please tell, I'm ESL so I get it, but really. What are you trying to say?

 

[nordique]

Elon Musk, if a wet fart became a human and ceased being entirely wet but remained a fart

 

[EDMIX]

He won't just admit it.

I love how he enjoyed this man bullying and making fun of people until it was his turn to be made fun of lol

I called this a while ago when he made this claim about being some top ranked Diablo player or something.

By default as many of you know, I don't rarely believe or buy into anything at face value, I need more info and for me to believe you, I need much more then, oh you fucking got a profile and an account. Ok, you could have bought that, paid someone to level up for you etc

Before I even post anything about a thread, I'd even google to see if its true, how to verify this info etc. You can't make me believe shit off of a picture or a claim of anything lol

 

[Thebonehead]

Some of the takes in here are fucking wild.

Did he most likely lie about playing these games? Probably. Is that ridiculous? Yes.

But acting like this dude is just dumb and hasn't achieved insane things (that you never will) is quite the fucking take.

SpaceX caught a fucking rocket.

XXL going hard on Elon all thread

 

[WhamBamThankYouMaam]

it is interesting seeing the man behind the money. Old kings did not display their weaknesses in a similar manner, even though they also got their power from inheritance.

 

[Moonjt9]

Really childish of musk tbh. Just admit it and let it go. Personality disorder in action here

 

[Burger King]

Not cool, Elon

 

[M1chl]

Ultimate Soy

And you will never be as divorced as Musk, that divorce really fuck him up, its crazy.

Also if he lies about something so petty, I hope nerds will wake up to the fact that he lies regularly.

Ultimately you are never going to Mars, its just a good cash cow for our favorite US government funded wellfare queen.

 

[bighugeguns]

They should both race it out in PoE...like real nerds would do. I would watch that!

TWO MAN ENTER ONE MAN LEAVE

 

[kurisu_1974]

Turns out the dude should have named his cars Edison after all.

 

[JonSnowball]

Let us not forget Elon Musk's entire thing is acting like a child: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/elon-musk-babyfur-rumor

Elon Musk Confirms He Used Burner Account On X To Role-Play As Toddler Son

“I wish I was old enough to go to nightclubs. They sound so fun,” Musk posted from the account, according to a newly released deposition.

www.yahoo.com

 

[nowhat]

Ultimately you are never going to Mars, its just a good cash cow for our favorite US government funded wellfare queen.

The whole Mars obsession is so stupid. Yes, we can get to Mars. We already have, with orbiters and landers/rovers. Getting humans there is just a matter of scaling things up, even if it would be a massive undertaking and cost a fuckton that would be better spent elsewhere.

But once there, then what? "Hurr durr, nuke the poles" says Musk - that wouldn't help, but even if it would create a temporary atmosphere, it wouldn't last one bit. Mars has no magnetic field anymore, it would get blown away by the solar wind (which is exactly what has happened before, hence practically no atmosphere nowadays). It would be like creating a Moon base, but far more costly and impractical. And in the case of an emergency, recovery missions to Mars will take months instead of days when compared to the Moon.

...which is why Elon should lead the way to Mars and be on the first mission, if one were ever to happen. For the rest of us, I suggest we try to maintain this planet as habitable as we can, because we ain't going anywhere else soon.

 

[Hudo]

But once there, then what?

I mean, we already know that there's a gateway to hell there. So I'd just blow it up. Don't let the UAC get to it.

 

[G-DannY]

with the starship blow up and asmon drama (that's gaining traction over other well positioned youtubers), I kinda can see elon running around his 300 million house smashing his dual threadripper 1tb ram 3x4090 out of the window....


(3x4090 cause the prebuilt-seller probably said to him that more is actually faster)

 

[PixelatedBeast]

The egotistical rich asshole vs the dirty, basement dwelling neck beard gamers hero...

 

[phil_t98]

The blue tag bit is hilariously petty.

Man who promotes free speech removes things when others say things he doesn't like

 

[Cyberpunkd]

I always thought the biggest advantage of Elon Musk is that people are so used to being lied to by communication professionals that they don't know how to handle a global elite person who doesn't give a fuck at all.

The problem of "not giving a fuck at all" is that one day he will really fuck up with large group of people having to pay for his mistakes.

 

[STARSBarry]

Reminds me of the time Elon had some harebrained scheme to interfere in a cave rescue, was told to back off by an actual experienced cave rescuer, and got so offended that he called the rescuer a paedophile and spent thousands of dollars on a private investigator to dig up dirt on him.

The man is an absolute tool.

This was the point I essentially discounted anything he said or did as purely self centered and ego driven until proven otherwise.

He hasn't.

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

I don’t think of him as “one of anything” pertaining to myself.

But carry on with your projection.

no of course you didnt...

 

[Mr Reasonable]

Hes trying to send a message that he'll openly put out any dirty laundry even over petty squabbles like this. He wants full loyalty and no criticism.

He is putting that message out, but I don't think he's trying to. He seems incredibly thin skinned, petty and driven by a need to self aggrandise, insecurity and feelings of inferiority, and cannot rationally respond to being caught in a lie that was unnecessary, ridiculous and childish would be my guess.

I wonder how far someone like that would go if they got close to having real power. Lucky we won't have to wonder much longer ...

 

[Mr Reasonable]

Did SpaceX catch a rocket? Yes. Is that amazing? Hell yes it is! Did Elon have anything to do with that? Hell no he didn't.

He did not invent any of that or contribute anything to the technological achievements of the company - or any of the companies he's "leading". He's just taking the credit for it, because people let him.

The amazing engineers and scientists working for SpaceX did all the work.

Totally.

Musk is a fraud.

The idea that he's seriously involved in any of his companies, beyond doing the promotion and marketing is obviously nonsense. Aside from anything else, he has too many companies to be fully across them, let alone while putting time into arguing on social media, playing any amount of video games at all and now getting ready to take a job in the American government ().

It must be a curse working on projects for him because on the one hand you would get to work on some interesting things but on the other you'd never get recognised for your work and achievements and also know that at any moment Musk might appear and say "scrap that, I need the car/rocket/whatever to be called Megatron and have a robotic hand mounted on it with a fully opposable thumb so it can give me a thumbs up in next weeks press conference." Totally unrelated: earlier that day, Elon had tweeted that the human hand was a perfect design, then needlessly told James Cameron he was a fucking idiot when Cameron friendlily explained why undersea exploration vessels don't have tools that mirror human hands.

 

[captainnapalm]

Wasn't everyone just convinced Elon Musk was pretending to be some guy on X only for that to be proved fake? Either way, there's no doubt Musk is a weird autist in some ways - but that's also what makes him able to achieve great things.

Also I've noticed that almost every decision he makes ends up being right - even when they seem obviously wrong. Like even with buying Twitter, he has basically done everything he set out to do. Or backing Trump before anyone was willing to do it. The dude is definitely some kind of genius. I mean it if was just Tesla, or just SpaceX, or just Neuralink, or just xAI, you could maybe write his achievements off as some kind of fluke. But there's just too much success there.

 

[MMaRsu]

Wasn't everyone just convinced Elon Musk was pretending to be some guy on X only for that to be proved fake? Either way, there's no doubt Musk is a weird autist in some ways - but that's also what makes him able to achieve great things.

Also I've noticed that almost every decision he makes ends up being right - even when they seem obviously wrong. Like even with buying Twitter, he has basically done everything he set out to do. Or backing Trump before anyone was willing to do it. The dude is definitely some kind of genius. I mean it if was just Tesla, or just SpaceX, or just Neuralink, or just xAI, you could maybe write his achievements off as some kind of fluke. But there's just too much success there.

Cmon man. He's not the one developing any of these things. He has employees that do the work. That's why he's the CEO.

He's not a genius.

 

[ShadowNate]

I guess it's good to know that he can get "community noted".

It's something I could look forward to in the future -- hopefully, though, his childish stupidity won't cause any real trouble from a position of power.

 

[Mr Reasonable]

Also I've noticed that almost every decision he makes ends up being right - even when they seem obviously wrong. Like even with buying Twitter, he has basically done everything he set out to do.

 

[EviLore]

I guess it's good to know that he can get "community noted".

It's something I could look forward to in the future -- hopefully, though, his childish stupidity won't cause any real trouble from a position of power.

AI noted too

 

[captainnapalm]

Cmon man. He's not the one developing any of these things. He has employees that do the work. That's why he's the CEO.

He's not a genius.

That's just not true - do you really think it's coincidence that everything he gets involved with is wildly successful? There have been at least two authoritative biographies written on him that clearly outline how much he is involved in every aspect of his companies. Even Tesla, which people like to take credit away from him because the company already existed - it was just a name before he arrived. He built it from the ground up. Recently, the head of Nvidia, was just in awe of Musk for the way in which he set about creating the world's largest AI supercomputer in a short space of time. I mean all this info is out there, angry Musk dudes.

 

[MMaRsu]

That's just not true - do you really think it's coincidence that everything he gets involved with is wildly successful? There have been at least two authoritative biographies written on him that clearly outline how much he is involved in every aspect of his companies. Even Tesla, which people like to take credit away from him because the company already existed - it was just a name before he arrived. He built it from the ground up. Recently, the head of Nvidia, was just in awe of Musk for the way in which he set about creating the world's largest AI supercomputer in a short space of time. I mean all this info is out there, angry Musk dudes.

Not a hater nor angry, he's just clearly not a genius, that's an insult to actual geniussus.

Just because he's a succesful businessman, does not make him a genius.

 

[GymWolf]

WWF drama, it's all staged.

Why would elon stage something that make him look like an absolute childish, moronic cunt?

This is not a movie, bad publicity is not positive for a dude with such an ego.

 

[realcool]

It's not a good public relations week for nerds. Elon Musk and Pirate Software are two peas in a pod, protecting their egos and refusing to take accountability for their actions. Guys, torching the goodwill extended toward you is completely unnecessary and avoidable with one simple trick: humility.

 

[captainnapalm]

Not a hater nor angry, he's just clearly not a genius, that's an insult to actual geniussus.

Just because he's a succesful businessman, does not make him a genius.

We see what happens when "successful businessmen" go into space - it's called Blue Origin. SpaceX is a little bit different. It's fine for you to not like Musk - he clearly has some issues - but let's be honest about his achievements at the same time.

 

[GymWolf]

Ive seen some of Asmon's souls streams and he is so obtuse at times its infuriating. Plus, he also does this typical streamer thing where hes too busy looking at the chat and misses basic information about gameplay which later comes back to bite him. ive also been stuck in souls games but watching him ignore basic mechanics because he simply wasnt paying attention makes him look like a noob in anything he doesnt already have thousands of hours playing.

Dude is absolutely infuriating to watch and lame as hell, i have no idea how the fuck he is so famous...

 

[FUBARx89]

Don't know why anyone believes Elon's shit about being a top gamer anyway. Never forgot his abysmal Elden Ring build.

Man's a clown

 

[MMaRsu]

We see what happens when "successful businessmen" go into space - it's called Blue Origin. SpaceX is a little bit different. It's fine for you to not like Musk - he clearly has some issues - but let's be honest about his achievements at the same time.

I have some respect for him, because of those ventures like SpaceX. However I do not think the man is a genius. Geniussus do not lie about being 'the best gamer' and then hire someone who plays the games for them so he can pretend it's his account.

Dude is absolutely infuriating to watch and lame as hell, i have no idea how the fuck he is so famous...

People probably like him because he reminds them of themselves.

I mean there are a lot of gross weird af individuals out there

 

[BlackTron]

I have some respect for him, because of those ventures like SpaceX. However I do not think the man is a genius. Geniussus do not lie about being 'the best gamer' and then hire someone who plays the games for them so he can pretend it's his account.



People probably like him because he reminds them of themselves.

I mean there are a lot of gross weird af individuals out there

Being a normal, socially graceful person with no personality disorders won't make me suspect you are a genius. But many autistic people have shocking abilities.

Being a genius and being fucked up are not mutually exclusive.

 

[nowhat]

We see what happens when "successful businessmen" go into space - it's called Blue Origin. SpaceX is a little bit different.

Yeah, blowing up stage 2!

 

[DavidGzz]

Muskrat is gonna buy Twitch and ban Asmon.

 

[moogman]

We see what happens when "successful businessmen" go into space - it's called Blue Origin. SpaceX is a little bit different. It's fine for you to not like Musk - he clearly has some issues - but let's be honest about his achievements at the same time.

Blue Origin is a good example of how Musk succeeds but also shows he's not the genius behind the companies. Blue Origin were going nowhere with an ex-engineer from NASA leading the project and Bezos got frustrated, moved closer to it and installed a different team. Since then they've moved quickly and are suddenly on-track.

I'll give Musk credit for putting good teams in place and he seems like he has a talent for that which is impressive. Gwynne Shotwell and Tom Mueller (who has now left) pushed the vision technically though and deserve to be recognised for it.

 

[IlGialloMondadori]

That's just not true - do you really think it's coincidence that everything he gets involved with is wildly successful? There have been at least two authoritative biographies written on him that clearly outline how much he is involved in every aspect of his companies. Even Tesla, which people like to take credit away from him because the company already existed - it was just a name before he arrived. He built it from the ground up. Recently, the head of Nvidia, was just in awe of Musk for the way in which he set about creating the world's largest AI supercomputer in a short space of time. I mean all this info is out there, angry Musk dudes.

Given how he loses his shit when a dirty cockroach like Asmongold offends him, you really think he didn’t have his hands on the keyboard with those biographies?

 

[captainnapalm]

Blue Origin is a good example of how Musk succeeds but also shows he's not the genius behind the companies. Blue Origin were going nowhere with an ex-engineer from NASA leading the project and Bezos got frustrated, moved closer to it and installed a different team. Since then they've moved quickly and are suddenly on-track.

I'll give Musk credit for putting good teams in place and he seems like he has a talent for that which is impressive. Gwynne Shotwell and Tom Mueller (who has now left) pushed the vision technically though and deserve to be recognised for it.

Good grief. Glynne Shotwell lol?

 

[ManaByte]

Muskrat is gonna buy Twitch and ban Asmon.

As long as he bans the terrorists while he's at it, fine.

The funniest thing about this is how the anti-wokes on Reddit who hate Asmon daily are suddenly on his side.