> I'm curious why they haven't attempted to tighten the screws on Tesla since Elon's position has weakened and they can really put him in a bad spot if they force him to give up something to them.
Its possible they believe he will destroy Tesla left to his own devices and their best course of action is to sit back and let it happen naturally with no meddling exposure for themselves and then maybe they can even poach some of his employees in the aftermath.
Considering that the administration Elon is gleefully making himself the "chainsaw" figurehead for is actively working to cripple the EV market in the US, this doesn't seem like a bad plan to me.
Is your argument really that because things were really bad in 1905 we shouldn't complain that after many decades of progress* that we are now rapidly sliding back to things being extremely shitty again?
Because that's a really strange way to look at it.
(* driven largely by increased regulation, unionization, etc... all the dirty words for modern conservatives)
You might care to specify what exactly your argument is then, as I'd formed a similar conclusion.
The Jungle led to an era of reform over nearly a century in which laissez faire and caveat emptor were displaced, largely to positive results, by appropriate regulation.
That regulatory turn had been opposed, increasingly dismantled since the Reagan administration, and in the past month and some has been outright dynamited. The consequences are beginning to show.
If that is your argument, it would benefit by more precise communication.
OK. If I'm not making an argument then we both agree that my argument is not that because things were really bad in 1905 we shouldn't complain that after many decades of progress.
> Elon needs to take rejections way less personally.
True, but Elon needs to worry most about the fact that when all the MAGA voters who aren't independently wealthy fully realize the current administration is throwing all the poors under the bus and not just the brown ones he is the useful idiot that is going to take the public fall to try to create some distance between the political fallout and the GOP.
Its pretty obvious to anyone with any political acumen that they are allowing him to be the public facing figurehead for all of this "efficiency" specifically to allow him to fill that role when the time comes.
That said, he'll be fully deserving of everything that happens IMO. I ain't saying any of this to try to warn him, I don't think his ego would allow him to believe it in any case.
Further confirmation, IMO, that the idea that any of this leads to anything close to AGI is people getting high on their own supply (in some cases literally).
LLMs are a great tool for what is effectively collected knowledge search and summary (so long as you are willing to accept that you have to verify all of the 'knowledge' they spit back because they always have the ability to go off the rails) but they have been hitting the limits on how much better that can get without somehow introducing more real knowledge for close to 2 years now and everything since then is super incremental and IME mostly just benchmark gains and hype as opposed to actually being purely better.
I personally don't believe that more GPUs solves this, like, at all. But its great for Nvidia's stock price.
I'd put myself on the pessimistic side of all the hype, but I still acknowledge that where we are now is a pretty staggering leap from two years ago. Coding in particular has gone from hints and fragments to full scripts that you can correct verbally and are very often accurate and reliable.
I'm not saying there's been no improvement at all. I personally wouldn't categorize it as staggering, but we can agree to disagree on that.
I find the improvements to be uneven in the sense that every time I try a new model I can find use cases where its an improvement over previous versions but I can also find use cases where it feels like a serious regression.
Our differences in how we categorize the amount of improvement over the past 2 years may be related to how much the newer models are improving vs regressing for our individual use cases.
When used as coding helpers/time accelerators, I find newer models to be better at one-shot tasks where you let the LLM loose to write or rewrite entire large systems and I find them worse at creating or maintaining small modules to fit into an existing larger system. My own use of LLMs is largely in the latter category.
To be fair I find the current peak model for coding assistant to be Claude 3.5 Sonnet which is much newer than 2 years old, but I feel like the improvements to get to that model were pretty incremental relative to the vast amount of resources poured into it and then I feel like Claude 3.7 was a pretty big back-slide for my own use case which has recently heightened my own skepticism.
Hilarious. Over two years we went from LLMs being slow and not very capable of solving problems to models that are incredibly fast, cheap and able to solve problems in different domains.
And here we see the modern conservative in his natural habitat. Notice that when any idea challenges his world view he will instinctually react with a defense mechanism known as the whataboutism.
> yet CEOs can run multiple companies, take board seats, and oversee the American government
...don't forget also playing Path of Exile 2 80 hours a week...
kinda funny that even after that came out and everyone had a laugh nobody really asked if maybe his real contributions on the business side of things are just as illusionary as his gaming accomplishments.
He seems to have a default assumption himself that if left unchecked each IC in his companies and the federal government aren't providing value commiserate with their compensation... and these days when it comes to people involved in politics I just assume based on accumulated evidence that every accusation is a confession.
This is great advice for job satisfaction, but given current events this sort of move is unlikely to result in an increase in job security or ease in finding a new job.
And they say anti-Trumpers are the ones with 'Trump Derangement Syndrome'...
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