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Shocking but not suprising. ChatGPT subtly reinforces almost everything one says to it. All the highly paid employees of OpenAI no doubt will find ways to justify this to themselves and keep churning out the next iteration. The end is nigh.

I'm no fan of Musk, but you've got to admit it was a clever way to achieve the goal. SemiAnalysis don't do fanboy articles - their research is pretty in-depth. So they are stating it as they see it.

The problem ordinary people all over the world have is that governments are allowing this to happen. Maybe if there were stricter regulation it will prevent players such as Musk to come up with such "innovations".


You'd have to be a little thick yourself to think that's clever. If you think that's clever, let me recommend you sell your car for extra fuel money, chop off your legs for rapid weight loss, and perhaps abuse methamphetamine to not have to sleep, boosting productivity 3 fold. Perhaps you'd like to add robbing banks as a faster way to get your cash out.

"Getting a permit for 15 turbines after having illegally used 35 turbines that then poisoned the air for the residences around the turbines" is a clever way to achieve the goal? I wouldn't call doing a blatant illegal action "clever", but rather sociopathic.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/03/xai-gets-permits-for-15-na...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/06/elon-musk-xai-memph...


Youve posted the same think like 4 times now

I'm not sure if this matters. The illegality of the article's central premise seems like an important point excluded from the article.

Indeed. May I ask the GP, how did you produce those scrollable images of the Shinkansen?


It was done with a line scan camera. More on the technique here: https://daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/2025-09-21-line-scan-camera-...


This was a great read and would be worth a submission of its own if it hasn't been posted recently.


Thanks, I posted it 4 months ago already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44996938


Upvoted!

ha ha - I had the same thought!


Interesting that it included the trynia Launch HN which was on the front page yesterday!


The same people have been saying for ages that this stuff needs to be regulated. But all governments are wary of interfering too much in the market. Legislation takes time, due not in small part to the efforts of private businesses lobbying against regulation. Look how long it took for governments to start labelling cigarettes as being harmful to ones health, restricting advertising etc.

As always, it takes bold leadership to bring about change, and it is not always available.


The American Dream is all about money. Any society which enshrines money as its holy grail for people is bound to end up where America is today.


This is true. In the last 50 years it went from family to money. A couple recessions scared people into removing regulations and restrictions and next thing you know our fiat is detached from the gold standard and wheeee


Wow, a True Believer gold bug...


And it also prioritises financial success over everything else, stoking the worst tendencies in human beings.


Spot on. There was a lot of sensible stuff in the National Security Strategy document published recently, but the attack on Europe was shocking, even though it is in line with recent events. It is time for Europe to chart its own course and reduce dependence on America as it should on Russia.


It's an incredible own-goal for America. Attack Europe, be soft on Russia and China. Forcing Europe to cut ties and cuddle up to India and China.


I am fairly certain that Russia has some kompromat on Trump and to avoid that being disclosed he is destroying the world as we know it. Just being a misogynist racist doesn't quite explain all of his actions.


The motivation is irrelevant TBH, what matters is the action.

Maybe Trump just wants USA to be "Russia but Better". Maybe he's imagining himself saving the world from "leftism" or whatever. Maybe he just wants money. Maybe he's being blackmailed.

Doesn't matter. What matters is that he's making the world a much worse place.

It's the same as it was with Putin. He told everybody loudly that The West is the enemy. People assumed he's doing it for internal politics reasons. There's no point guessing people's motivations, just listen to them, and when they tell you you are their enemy - believe them.


That felt right in the first term, but not this time around. Trump just straight up lies about whatever he doesn't want to be true, even when Trump's talking to a journalist and the journalist is asking Trump a question about something Trump said on camera the week before. (Reminds me of Boris Johnson in the UK, that).

I think the simple answer is he doesn't know that "objective truth" is a thing, it's all just words and power-play for him, whatever (seems to him will) work in the moment without any regard for long-term planning.

Like how current AI gets criticised for not really being smart despite appearing so when you don't pay close attention, modified by how biological nets get good with far fewer examples than ML requires.


He can say and do what he wants, but I think the crucial question is if his base and supporters would be ready to go along with it (or at least pretend to).

They seem to do so for almost everything - except the Epstein files. Those seem to be a bridge too far even for the MAGA crowd.


Sure, but I'm saying if there was kompromat he'd just deny it like he denies other things he's said on camera, I don't think he'd change his behaviour due to being threatened with it.


At this point in time I’d ask who doesn’t. He himself stated rather correctly he could just shoot a random person in broad daylight and his supporters would continue to support him.


Have you been living under a rock? US under Trump is cuddling up to Pakistan, and not India. India is facing among the highest tariffs for exporting to the US, and the narrative from the US Prez and cabinet has been visibly caustic on India.


Forcing Europe to cuddle up to China and India.


Okay, thanks. My bad. It makes sense. I apologize.


The major headline in response over here in Europe was "the transatlantic relationship is dead now". It’s so confounding, and needlessly destructive.


How would this work where children are hell bent on bypassing this control? Won't they be able to install browser plugins which will remove this header similar to how they are using free VPNs to bypass age checks?


Children who are hell bent on bypassing controls will always find a way. It helps them not just stumble on it though when they're not ready. If they really want to access it, they already know about it and what it is


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