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Bob Koyak's avatar

I'm grateful to Elon Musk for so much, but too much is riding on the mood swings of one eccentric billionaire.

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Grazyna Samborska's avatar

You think that Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink and The Boring Company are results of Musk's mood swing?

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Freedom Lover's avatar

If they are, bring on mood swings!!! ЁЯШБ

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Grazyna Samborska's avatar

I think we should be very careful what we are asking for; Neuralink, AI and then there is ... POSTHUMANISM, right?

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Bill Owen's avatar

Humans are just a transitional form.

He needs to stop torturing pigs though.

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Grazyna Samborska's avatar

Are you JUST HUMAN? In which transitional phase are you?

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Freedom Lover's avatar

I think you are upto something and we are not far, if that, apart

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Grazyna Samborska's avatar

I'm not up to, but against; I like humanity and post- means AIity

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Freedom Lover's avatar

Grazyna, please forgive me, I know that Katerzyna is Kasya. Is Grazyna then Grasia?

In American vernacular being upto something means understanding, having and idea, grasping тАж even if itтАЩs being against. As I said it, we may not be far apart. Even if I see Elon as Genius and you see him as evil. тЬМЁЯП╛ЁЯл╢ЁЯП╝

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Grazyna Samborska's avatar

LOL, ESL and ELL..

So upto is different than up to, OK.

In my office in Philadelphia, PA, vernacular beings were not able to pronounce my Litwinien name so I offered Graz, but it turned into grass, so finally my response was "call me Gee"

OMG!, I really admire Musk and value his deeds. But Janus, duality phenomenon is natural. His other side is eager to experiment with AI, and this is what I condemn.

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Freedom Lover's avatar

Wow, Lithuanian?? I would bet that you are Polish. Or is Samborska your married name??

It may surprise you, but Musk is actually warning about dangers of AI and calls for a slowdown in its development. Just do a search, something like тАЬMusk warnsтАЭ and AI.

Took my own advice and the first entry in the search results was: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/15/elon-musk-co-founder-of-chatgpt-creator-openai-warns-of-ai-society-risk.html

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Grazyna Samborska's avatar

Thanks for correction of spelling; Goo underlined my mistake but didn't provide a prompt --Google's IQ is around 75.

I am Polish; Sambor is a town in Lvov oblast, Ukraine; annexed by Poland in 1349; -ska is a typical suffix inPolish language; -ski is male.

My father's name was ┼Ъwi─Еtek, but in order to avoid military conscription (?}, he, naughty one, changed his name. I have double last name, with Moroz aftermy husband. It means frost and I didn't like nighter meaning nor my ex-... My daughter,s name is Olga and my half-Peruvian granddaughter's Jasmin with a long etymology.

What is your first name, Freedom Lover?

I read Musk's statement before but forgot it. But Chat GPT is extraordinary! I listened (I'm legally blind) its answer on pandemic -- death sentence to Demon Fauci and Big Pharma - amazing!

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Freedom Lover's avatar

You are kidding. Chat GPT wrote/spoke THAT??

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Grazyna Samborska's avatar

An amendment. Selected letters from Polish ABC: ─Е ─Д ─Щ ─З ─Ж ┼Ы ┼Ъ ┼Д ┼║ ├│ ┼╝ ┼║ ┼В ┼Б╦Ы -- tails, dots, dashes

Gra┼╝yna, diminutives of name -- Gra┼╝ynka. Gra┼╝yneczka, Gra┼╝ynusia, Gra┼╝ka, Grazia

Thickening of name -- Gra┼╝ynisko;

Diminutives and thickenings apply to ALL nouns.

Alias -- Ciu─Зma

You can also call me G, as colleagues in my office used to, or Ciu─Зma :-)

A, it is Katarzyna/Kasia

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Bill Owen's avatar

No, he stole all those ideas, some of them horrendously bad, like this tunnel trains, from Popular Science articles written many decades ago. Mush has never invented or even originated one single thing. Not even paypal.

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Vee SouthBX Native's avatar

China's tunnel bores are astounding, huge and can bore thru anything. In Seattle a tunnel was delayed for over a year because the pathetic bore got stuck. Musk is a leech.

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Grazyna Samborska's avatar

"Popular Science articles written many decades ago." -- Is this a... reference that supports your claims?

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