Yeah. What most irritates me about Tesla, SpaceX, and NeuraLink (maybe even
StarLink) is that there are really good people behind the actual work. It feels
like a typical trade show to me. Sure, maybe there are knowledgeable people at
some of the booths, but most of them are mid-level bureaucrats who talk more
about the marketing bullets than the actual content of the thing they're
hawking. It's a developed skill to avoid the booth person who *tries* to
approach you and start yapping marketing bullet points and stay just out of
range until an actual dork arrives that you have to approach.
This trend away from fundamentals and toward memes is really frustrating. But
maybe it's recency bias. Maybe it's always been this way and I don't understand
it because I'm just a dork.
On 2/11/25 7:40 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
Apparently, Tesla only managed to show profitability last quarter due to
unrealized earnings on Bitcoin. Stock is way overvalued.
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From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of glen
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2025 7:36 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] OpenAI and the fight between Elon and Sam
What do the Twitter purchase and the OpenAI bid have in common with the
dismantling of USAID and the DEI purge?
Control the narrative. He's not defending open-source. And he's not trying to
crush the competition. He's trying and succeeding at controlling the narrative.
In many ways, Musk has learned from Trump. Or maybe they both came up with the
similar tactics separately. Firehose insane bullsh¡t every minute of every day
so as to confuse and exhaust all those authentic people out there trying to
decode your bullsh¡t. It's a form of security through obscurity (or
steganography if you're generous). But Musk is different from Trump in that he
has real fvck you money. It literally doesn't matter if he lost $40B in Twitter
or if he loses $97B in OpenAI. What matters is whether he controls the
narrative.
On 2/10/25 11:31 PM, Pieter Steenekamp wrote:
Elon and Sam co-founded OpenAI (along with others) as a non-profit, aiming to
make AI open-source for the good of humanity.
Then things got messy. Elon walked away, saying he didn’t want a conflict of
interest since Tesla was also diving into AI.
Later, Sam flipped the script. He created a for-profit version of OpenAI and
planned to quietly absorb the non-profit into it. Elon was furious, calling it
a betrayal of OpenAI’s original mission.
Now, Elon is back with a bold move. He and a group of investors have slammed
$97 billion on the table to buy the non-profit OpenAI. Their mission? Keep it
non-profit, make it open-source again, and stop OpenAI from becoming just
another corporate cash machine.
The OpenAI board is expected to reject the offer, but here’s the twist—it puts
a clear price tag on the non-profit OpenAI. That makes it much harder for the
for-profit side to just absorb it for free. Game on.
Of course, maybe Elon’s move isn’t just about saving AI for humanity. Could he
also be trying to crush the competition? Maybe feeling a little left out of
Trump’s $500 billion Stargate project that includes Sam but excludes him?
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