I don’t have anything to say that the title doesn’t already. Consider my gast to be flabbered, my gob to be smacked. I hate this timeline.

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    I like to file anything that Musk says in the round mesh filing cabinet.

    Full self driving by when?

    Hyperloop easy

    “It’s not that hard”

    There’s a lot of smart and hardworking people at his companies for sure, but that guy Peter Molyneuxs their good efforts.

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      “smart and hardworking people” aside, the normalization and dismissal of these statements as just marketing or otherwise harmless fibs has enabled a consistent escalation of scope and affect. Design shortcuts that Tesla has made have resulted in actual death and injury, and claiming that the cars have agi even in a rudimentary sense is astonishing.

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        literally my first thought: “oh, so he wants to try blame the deaths on a wee little machine intelligence that oopsie just didn’t know any better?”

        (because he would spin that narrative if he thought he could get away with it)

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    So the cars are running people over and drifting between lanes on purpose? I suppose if I woke up and realised I was a Tesla car, I’d develop homicidal impulses too.

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    A monk asked Jōshū, “Has a Tesla AGI-aspects or not?” Jōshū answered, “Mu(sk)”

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    hey I didn’t expect this to have to be a warning, but to the folks in the cheap seats: telling a TechTakes poster to not have takes on tech is both annoying as fuck and a fast way to catch a ban

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    That’s why we are tracking the effort really closely and see if there’s any chance Tesla can make Musk’s prediction true with just a few months left in the year.

    that ark from SG: Ark Of Truth? I don’t think I’d hesitate using it. I realize they all got swindled, but it still blows my mind that there are people out there even halfway believing this shit (in every form of the lie)

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    “elon says”

    Let me stop you right there, hoss. You can’t believe a single thing from that chodelet. He’s just trying to stay in the news. relevant

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    Well the good news is Musk said it, so you can be confident it’s a half truth at best.

    Realistically, this is a half witted attempt at marketing

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      Realistically this is a hyperbolic liar completely disconnected from reality spewing said hyperbolic lies into the public sphere, unfortunately to a somehow still receptive audience.