If you look at Yuri Bezmenov’s ideological subversion framework (demoralization, destabilization, crisis, normalization), Musk’s actions unintentionally fit the pattern. He constantly undermines trust in institutions (demoralization), creates chaos in media and finance (destabilization), fuels constant controversy (crisis), and normalizes the idea that disruption = leadership. Whether he’s doing this deliberately or just having fun trolling is debatable, but the effect is similar.
Does Elon even have a vision for the future, or is he just obsessed with the engagement metrics for his next tweet? His posts nowadays feel like a carefully balanced science experiment — one part rage bait for people who believe in decency, one part dopamine drip for his loyal fanbase who think being a contrarian will increase your chances of becoming a billionaire.
Youtube rewards content that gets interactions more than anything else. Likes, subscribes, comments, shares, pauses, rewinds and replays all hold incredible sway over what gets promoted by the algorithm.
You'll have the same "aha" moment when you hear a certain unelected vice-president confidently wade into your area of expertise — where his usual smooth-talking veneer shatters like a plate at a Greek wedding. Yet, his most devoted fans remain undeterred, doubling down on the myth of his omniscience with the zeal of a flat-earther explaining airline routes.
Bingo! The final straw was when Al bought a social media platform just to boost his own overconfident posts about a wide range of subjects. When he claimed to be the world’s best Diablo player I just lost it.
Yeah, Al Gore buying Slashdot and ruining it was the worst thing that happened to social media in the early 2000s and gave rise to the likes of MySpace and later Facebook.
It’s not about him—it’s about recognizing hubris. If someone confidently blunders into your domain and reveals they have no idea what they’re talking about, it’s universally amusing, regardless of the person. Thanks for showing us how eager some people are to defend personas over substance.
I pointed out that you jumped to make this LLM post about them, which is telling, just like you jumped to blame me for defending them, which is also telling.
Pointing to a real-life example of overhyped intelligence in a discussion about overhyped intelligence seems pretty fair to me. If your response is to attack and assume I’m too sensitive about overconfident billionaires, I’ll have to assume you’re just as sensitive about criticism of people you admire. Otherwise you would have moved on.
>With Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which is generally my AI offering of choice given its superior coding ability, my “What personal preferences should Claude consider in responses?” profile setting includes the line “When writing code, use vanilla HTML/CSS/JS unless otherwise noted by me”. Despite this, Claude will frequently opt to generate new code with React, and in some occurrences even rewrite my existing code into React against my intent and without my consultation.
I noticed this too. Anyone found out how to make Claude work better?
Since the system prompt tied to the artifacts feature seems to be the reason for it having a preference for react, seems like the solution would be to use the API instead. Plenty of front ends available nowadays that let you use your own API key. I've been using typingmind since I paid for it over a year ago but I'd be interested to know if some good open source alternatives have popped up more recently.
The main blocker to using the API with an alternative frontend is the cost.
Daily API usage can easily go above the $20/month subscription cost since output tokens are expensive and each new message reuses the whole message chain as input tokens. Especially true if you often upload images or documents.
Third party providers work through the APIs and thus do not have these issues. I use Kagi but there are many options out there for a price similar to the normal subscription, and plus you get a wider choice of models.
Claude is particularly bad about this, almost makes it unusable for my frontend use cases. I specify the exact tech stack in my prompt and it responds with a solution using whichever packages are available in its environment (Tailwind, shadcn/ui, etc.).
My request to model providers: the strength of your offering is its generality. Please let it be general-purpose and resist adding features (alignment, system prompts, custom stuff like Claude artifacts) that limit this.
The biggest problem for people like you is that there are plenty governments and companies that are being led by competent leaders that don’t need to wield an axe to effect change. To the people wielding the axe, every problem looks like a tree.
It's never a good thing when the people who take on jobs in the public sector have to fear their own government. Especially when that government wilfully installs under-qualified and downright untrustworthy leadership.
I’ve known a lot of gov’t workers over my not-super-short life. You will never find a group of people more distrusting of the gov’t, if not outright calling for it’s destruction.
Honestly, similar to software engineers and software.
most places are in their own ways, and wonderful and beautiful in others.
America seems to have flipped from exporting the ‘American Dream’ to the ‘American Nightmare’, so it’s a lot more in people’s face right now, but frankly every country has significant issues right now.
one of those ‘hard to see the mote in one’s own eye’ type of situations usually. except in some third world countries, it’s often pretty obvious then hah.
Is it? Qin did conquer the 7 states. After the French revolution, France resisted the combined might of the rest of Europe by being unafraid to murder it's generals when they underperformed. The Soviet union is said to have reached it's apogee under Stalin.
If anything, history shows that ruling government officials by means of fear is very good sign for the nation, but tends to be harmful to the rulers.
You can't reach that conclusion by limiting to only examples where fear worked, as I can also point to Pol Pot, Mugabe, and the Kim dynasty of North Korea ruling by fear, and it being bad for those countries.
This discussion isn't about generalized terror, it's about a policy of fear directed at people who work for the government. None of the people you listed directed their campaign of murders towards civil servants.
Pol Pot confined his cruelty towards the intelligent, Mugabe, North Korea mostly terrorizes the peasantry, Mugabe's victims were a revolving door of ethnic enemies.
It's quite a different thing to shoot an admiral to encourage the rest.
It may sound like a bad thing for the American citizens that cherish imperialism and for the compradors here in Eastern Europe who directly profit from said American imperialism, but for the rest of us, normal people (both in the US and in Eastern Europe and other such parts of the American Empire) seeing USAID and NED gone is a gift from Heaven.
I don’t know if I understand you correctly but I’d argue genetics don’t play that big of a role in preparing your kids for their life as an adult. In my experience as a parent I am frightened daily by how influential I am in my role as a father. They pick up thousands of small things by copying the behavior and messaging of their parents. Even now they’re teenagers.
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