Tar_Alcaran

We would all REALLY apreciate it if you used the proper language tag in your posts.

“worst country you know just did a good thing”.

Musk’s comments echo a Wall Street Journal report on Friday, which said SpaceX has told investors it would prioritize going to the moon and attempt a trip to Mars at a later time, targeting March 2027 for an uncrewed lunar landing.

Friendly reminder that Artemis 3 requires the uncrewed demonstration before the manner landing in '27 or '28.

I will personally not just eat my hat, but eat my helmet if HLS makes it TO the moon, and I’ll buy a second, bigger helmet and eat that too if it lands and comes back in 2027

SpaceX’ largest client is Starlink, but they have a pretty hard cap on the replacement rate of the satellites, meaning that in a year or two, every launch will go to replacing lost sats. Add the problem that adding more satellites doesn’t increase their service all that much, thanks to the annoying fact that humans tend not to live in the ocean.

That means a hard limit on growth, which is absolutely terrible for a tech company in this market.

Why is Russia using T-62s?

That’s easy. It’s what they have left. They’re not making enough new thanks, so they’re using the last dregs of the Soviet Union

It’s the same reason he “pivoted” away from hyperloop, or passenger-liner-starship, or tesla semi, or the boring company. Because it was never about that. Those were all lies to create hype for other projects or to destroy competition.

People with working brains have ALWAYS said that SpaceX wasn’t going to Mars and Musk’s Mars idea are stupid, and Elon’s fanboys have always said it was totally going to happen yo. And now, finally, Musk had to admit it was never going to happen, it’s being heralded as a sensible choice and a smart move.

Bitch, you shouldn’t get credit for dropping your own dumb idea that everyone said was dumb.

Reminder that all we have as a source is the company posting a single tweet, and then immediately used it to advertise how secure they really are.

Unfortunately, I’m kind of stuck with it, I can’t disconnect from those communities that have chosen to tie themselves to this platform. If I did I really would be a hermit living in a cave.

I don’t really know anything like discord though. What would be a good alternative?

Eh, good point.

Honestly, I’ve “solved” this by accepting defeat. My gaming PC is only used for gaming, and I consider it to be roughly on par with an Xbox or Playstation or work laptop. Any data on it should be considered public.

I do literally everything else on my Linux box, which I actually feel OK about. Yes, I could dual boot, but honestly, having my stuff airgapped from the crazy intrusive “security” is nice.

like European chocolate like Cadbury, Tony’s, etc as well

Those are low-to-mid tier at best though. Good chocolate is stuff like Callebaut

Wait, what did he do?

Likewise cold fusion

I don’t personally remember hearing any AI company leader ever claim their LLM is generally intelligent

Not directly. They merely claim it’s a coworker that can complete complex tasks, or an assistant that can do anything you ask.

The public isn’t just failing here, they’re actively being lied to by the people attempting to sell the service.

For example, here’s Sammy saying exactly that: https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/05/01/1091979/sam-altman-says-helpful-agents-are-poised-to-become-ais-killer-function/

And here’s him again, recently, trying to push the “our product is super powerful guys” angle with the same claim: https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-chatgpt/sam-altman-ai-agents-hackers-best-friend

Nobody but quacks is trying to make cold fusion work. Are you confusing it with “regular” nuclear fusion?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion

ChatGPT alone has over 800 million weekly users. If just one percent of them are paying, that’s 8 million paying customers. That’s not “nobody.”

Yes, it is. A 1% conversion rate is utterly pathetic and OpenAI should be covering its face in embarrassment if that’s. I think WinRAR might have a worse conversion rate, but I can’t think of any legitimate company that bad. 5% would be a reason to cry openly and beg for more people.

Edit: it seems like reality is closer to 2%, or 4% if you include the legacy 1 dollar subscribers.

That sheer volume of weekly users also shows the demand is clearly there,

Demand is based on cost. OpenAI is losing money on even its most expensive subscriptions, including the 230 euro pro subscription. Would you use it if you had to pay 10 bucks per day? Would anyone else?

If they handed out free overcooked rice delivered to your door, there would be a massive demand for overcooked rice. If they charged you a hundred bucks per month, demand would plummet.

Relying on an LLM for factual answers is a user error, not a failure of the underlying technology.

That’s literally what it’s being marketed as. It’s on literally every single page openAI and its competitors publish. It’s the only remotely marketable usecase they have, because these things are insanely expensive to run, and they’re only getting MORE expensive.

Exactly, a “cure for cancer” is like “stopping accidents”.

There’s still cancer, and there are still accidents. But on both fields it’s much better to be alive in 2026 than in 1926

If people treat it like AGI - which it’s not - then of course it’ll let them down.

People treat it like the thing it’s being sold as. The LLM boosters are desperately trying to sell LLMs as coworkers and assistants and problemsolvers.

The flying car,

Those are called helicopters. They’re literally just cars but every advantage and every downside is amplified.

They’re amazing for taking a small number of people somewhere, at massive cost to the surroundings. They’re noisy, take up a lot of space, require lots of specialized Infrastructure just for them and they are incredibly dangerous to their surroundings.

cold fusion

That’s not a technology, it’s a scam. Regular fusion is absolutely real, it’s just super complicated and hugely underfunded.

AI is great, LLMs are useless.

They’re massively expensive, yet nobody is willing to pay for it, so it’s a gigantic money burning machine.

They create inconsistent results by their very nature, so you can, definitionally, never rely on them.

It’s an inherent safety nightmare because it can’t, by its nature, distinguish between instructions and data.

None of the company desperately trying to sell LLMs have even an idea of how to ever make a profit off of these things.