6 minutes ago, exchemist said:

Interesting. Perhaps his son was the last straw then that triggered Musk to “come out” as the nazi he secretly was all along. But it does not seem coincidence that within 6 months of his son’s announcement Musk had bought Twitter, sacked the moderation staff and embarked on a series of high profile far right activities, not just in the US but concerning Europe too.

All very odd, counterproductive behaviour for a maker of EVs.

But, back to your observation about Silicon Valley, I realise Peter Thiel is on record as expressing contempt for democracy. And it seems Zuckerberg has also run up the Jolly Roger, promoting a new, snarling macho persona, quite at odds with how he used to present himself. So yeah, there does seem to be a lot of it about among the tech bros.

The Far Right crowd is extremely intolerant of trans people so it would make an order of magnitude more sense for him to start supporting Bernie and AOC. It would make no sense for him to become so shocked by his own child's transition if he hadn't been right wing to begin with.

Edited July 15Jul 15 by Otto Kretschmer

Something I find interesting is that Trump chose a guy, who thinks launching a brand new car into space is a worthwhile use of resources, to cut waste and inefficiency...

DOGE was just a front to train Colossus on terabytes of sensitive citizen data while giving cover for firing non loyalists. Grok4 released last week is now the most powerful AI frontier model ever seen by the public.

It’s a bit to Reich for my tastes, but powerful it is.

I am not sure how accurate it is, but read that while it performed well in benchmarks, it did poorly on a range of tasks, most notably coding and debugging.

But then I have no idea how the whole thing works and how citizen data would impact it.

1 hour ago, CharonY said:

I am not sure how accurate it is, but read that while it performed well in benchmarks, it did poorly on a range of tasks, most notably coding and debugging.

But then I have no idea how the whole thing works and how citizen data would impact it.

On the benchmark I use (Livebench) it scores marginally higher than Gemini 2.5 Pro, mostly slightly higher on reasoning (97 vs 94) and math. It's equal on everything else. It's a very solid model but far from being a revolution or a next gen thing.

Edited July 16Jul 16 by Otto Kretschmer