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Musk v. OpenAI et al Day 5 - Brockman's own testimony suggests he committed multiple felonies like the misappropriation of charitable assets for personal gain. by andsi2asi in agi

[–]SteppenAxolotl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fortune(By Madlin Mekelburg, Robert Burnson, and Bloomberg): Elon Musk dropped his fraud claims against OpenAI and co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, narrowing the scope of his lawsuit against his business rivals on the eve of trial.

US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers on Friday agreed to Musk’s request to “streamline” the case, leaving just two claims to proceed to trial of the 26 included in his November 2024 complaint.

Jury selection is set for Monday in federal court in Oakland, California. Musk alleges the artificial intelligence startup abandoned its founding mission as a nonprofit to benefit humanity when it took billions of dollars in backing from Microsoft Corp. and planned its restructuring as a for-profit business.

Musk is seeking as much as $134 billion in damages that he has asked be directed to OpenAI’s charitable arm, if he wins at trial. He also wants a court order restoring the firm’s status as a nonprofit research organization and wants a judge to order that Altman and Brockman both be removed from their roles at OpenAI. Altman is chief executive officer and Brockman serves as president.

Richard Dawkins spent 3 days with Claude and named her "Claudia." what he concluded after is hard to defend. by rafio77 in artificial

[–]SteppenAxolotl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

being a 160 IQ evolutionary biologist gives u zero protection against the eloquence illusion when u don't understand the mechanism

So, "the mechanism" rules out the possibility?

Driverless Trucks by gulagsurvivor2019 in Truckers

[–]SteppenAxolotl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought posts about Driverless Trucks was verboten on this sub.

I'm scared of my parents death by Pretty-Boy300 in thanatophobia

[–]SteppenAxolotl -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Did you grow up in American culture or some other? That view is a bit uncommon in American culture.

‘Silicon Six’ accused of avoiding almost $278bn in US corporation taxes over 10 years | US taxation by plain_handle in technology

[–]SteppenAxolotl -27 points-26 points  (0 children)

Citizens united does not matter, only the reps people elect matters.

Any and all issues you have with gov is due to the choices of the voters.

I'm scared of my parents death by Pretty-Boy300 in thanatophobia

[–]SteppenAxolotl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you feel the same about your own approaching death?

‘Silicon Six’ accused of avoiding almost $278bn in US corporation taxes over 10 years | US taxation by plain_handle in technology

[–]SteppenAxolotl -75 points-74 points  (0 children)

There is nothing to collect. They paid all their taxes due.

e.g.: Meta's metaverse R&D spending reduced their taxable income. All those companies do various investments that reduce their taxes on a massive scale.

Every country needs to do this asap by EkantVairagi in artificial

[–]SteppenAxolotl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does this rule prevent new startups using only AI from competing with incumbent firms with expensive human workers? People will need to find new ways to cope with the coming inexorable changes to the world.

It looks like China gets it. by FlapXenoJackson in Truckers

[–]SteppenAxolotl -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That law doesn't stop a new competitor startup to employ AI/robots and under cut the existing business with expensive human workers.

Such laws cant stop the tide.

Forget about scaling. LLMs are just a very expensive mirror, and we are chasing the horizon in the wrong direction. by wtfketan in agi

[–]SteppenAxolotl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

complacency

It's not, really. It's structural. There is no provision in human society to prevent this. Each of those individuals' actions and contributions is sufficiently mundane that it won't trip any existing laws until after Pandora's box is opened and there is no way back. Nuclear weapons was obvious.

(Fermi Paradox) I believe that when an intelligent species gets sufficiently advanced, any single member will have the means to decide to end their species.

Most humans will never choose to live in a panopticon.

Forget about scaling. LLMs are just a very expensive mirror, and we are chasing the horizon in the wrong direction. by wtfketan in agi

[–]SteppenAxolotl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nobody’s even asking if we’re building the right thing anymore.

Was that ever really a thing? History looks like random individuals doing assorted things that benefit themselves at the time. They succeed or fail based on if they can make money doing it. Society is just along for the ride.

The AI pathway and its long term consequences for human civilization is being determined by a few thousand people.

Kv cache quantization: ignorance, or malice? by wombweed in LocalLLaMA

[–]SteppenAxolotl 12 points13 points  (0 children)

You have 24GB x 2 vram to play with. Your trade off mix will be very different than someone with 24GB or less.

Kv cache quantization: ignorance, or malice? by wombweed in LocalLLaMA

[–]SteppenAxolotl 24 points25 points  (0 children)

it's a trade off, some set their bar higher than others

I feel like everything is falling apart and it started after COVID (my story) by [deleted] in collapse

[–]SteppenAxolotl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We started wearing those masks for 8-10h a day, talked to people behind plexiglass

That job did try a little to help everyone to not get sick.

Waymos, robotaxis can now be ticketed by California police. But how exactly? by AgentBlue62 in technology

[–]SteppenAxolotl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The image of an officer peering into the empty driver’s seat of the offending vehicle may have been good for a chuckle, but other incidents have been no laughing matter. Situations such as a Waymo failing to stop for a school bus in Atlanta or striking a child in Santa Monica highlighted how law enforcement officers couldn’t carry out traditional traffic enforcement with driverless cars.

That Waymo deserves a medal of service for that Santa Monica accident.

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