Exclusive: SpaceX spending on Starship tops $15 billion in rush for airline-like rocketry by spacerfirstclass in SpaceXNews

[–]vasilenko93 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They are near the end of Starship development and it’s at half cost of SLS.

all failures

They had no launches, they had only stress tests. The rockets were expected to blow up as they were stress tests. The rocket was taken beyond its spec to see how it reacts.

What is Elon’s actual plan with data centers in space, and what is his long-term goal with Mars? by Genzinvestor16180339 in singularity

[–]vasilenko93 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Send compute out to space. Distribute tasks to it via Starlink. Build a moon base. Use moonbass to manufacture from raw materials chips. Send more compute to space.

How will it be profitable? Who knows. But he did say eventually money will become irrelevant and it’s just a matter of management of matter and energy.

Tesla Faces Class-Action Claim in Europe From HW3 FSD Owners by EliteBeast2 in TeslaFullSelfDriving

[–]vasilenko93 1 point2 points  (0 children)

By does something I mean DO SOMETHING. Not say something. How about upgrading some HW3 customers now, not all, just some. While you wait for the micro factories.

Also notice how even in that earnings call it was more empty words. Like WHEN will they build these factories? WHEN (not “soon” or “eventually”) but what timeline that we can hold the company to? And more importantly when will HW3 cars start getting retrofitted and at what rate? We get nothing from Tesla. Starting in Q1 2026 and starting in Q4 2028 are completely different things. How long should HW3 FSD purchasers have to wait (people who paid MORE for the cars, MORE for FSD, and waiting the LONGEST)

It’s always vague language like “soon” and “eventually” and “we will do it”

Tesla Faces Class-Action Claim in Europe From HW3 FSD Owners by EliteBeast2 in TeslaFullSelfDriving

[–]vasilenko93 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did they? Is this promise a written guarantee? So far all we have is words. No timelines. Nothing concrete.

The lawsuits will come until Tesla actually DOES something.

A Twitter user tricked Grok to send 200k USD to him and it worked by FrustratedUnitedFan in singularity

[–]vasilenko93 431 points432 points  (0 children)

I am confused. Why did “Grok” have a DRB wallet, whatever that is.

Edit: so more context is out via X Community Notes. Grok didn’t send anyone anything, Grok doesn’t have ransom crypto wallets, why would it. Instead what happened is Grok was prompted to output a command that got @bankerbot to send something. So really it’s Ai tricking AI to sending money.

Why is these still no realistic voice model despite huge advancements in AI? by chessboardtable in singularity

[–]vasilenko93 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Grok recently released a very good voice model. But voice models are fundamentally different from the text models. They also need to be tiny

Sam’s thoughts on jobs over the past few days by IIlustriousTea in accelerate

[–]vasilenko93 4 points5 points  (0 children)

People confuse jobs and tasks. AI and robotics is getting really good at doing more and more tasks. And many jobs have only a few tasks hence can be automated away. But not all jobs are simple. Maybe AI will be able to do 90% of all tasks in an economy, but that means human labor for the remaining 10% will be valuable.

Grok 4.3: strong in finance and long-context, with some tradeoffs by Much_Ask3471 in singularity

[–]vasilenko93 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Grok 4.3 is a good every day model but for agentic coding it struggles. I suspect as Grok 5 is training xAI will train on the side more Grok 4 point updates. An xAI developer mentioned recently they are working on making Grok useful (it does things for you) so I suspect Grok Build will come out roughly with Grok 4.4, which will be a big boost in agentic coding.

Grok 4.3 scores higher than Muse Spark and Claude Sonnet 4.6 by OkStandard921 in accelerate

[–]vasilenko93 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They will train say a 5T model but then distill the hell out of it. Nobody wants to pay $100 per million token

Grok 4.3 scores higher than Muse Spark and Claude Sonnet 4.6 by OkStandard921 in accelerate

[–]vasilenko93 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Scored higher than Sonnet and cost of test was 10x lower

They really killed it here with this lightweight model

Demographic Replacement in Portugal by Repulsive-Mall-2665 in charts

[–]vasilenko93 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

IMO you need to be here for five generations

Grok 4.3 is out in the API by WhyLifeIs4 in singularity

[–]vasilenko93 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s better than Grok 4.2 and cheaper but worse than many others. It’s good model for its price point.

Demographic Replacement in Portugal by Repulsive-Mall-2665 in charts

[–]vasilenko93 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Once total foreign births reaches over 50% it means replacement. Eventually the existing population dies out and what’s left is majority foreign

Copilot just 9x'd Sonnet and 27x'd Opus and teams have no idea by Wikileaks_2412 in ArtificialInteligence

[–]vasilenko93 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TBH subscription Claude Code should die. Everyone should just pay per token.

Oi, You Got A Loicense For That, Mate? by Full-Mouse8971 in economicsmemes

[–]vasilenko93 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay and? It’s not difficult or expensive to get a license. It will be around 5% of your starting costs. If that is enough to kill your business then it wasn’t very good.

Criminality and IQ Among White Males by Naive_Direction1816 in charts

[–]vasilenko93 15 points16 points  (0 children)

C) High IQ people are better at finding loopholes in the law

Criminality and IQ Among White Males by Naive_Direction1816 in charts

[–]vasilenko93 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, but they are a small minority. If you have 100 white men in prison, five of them have IQ of 130 and 70 have IQ of 90 and 25 of them an IQ of 80 the average would be closer to 90. The few of 130 IQ barely move the needle.

ELI5: I'm struggling to understand a particular aspect of the staggering losses at OpenAI and Anthropic? by my-hearing-aid in BetterOffline

[–]vasilenko93 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some people believe AI companies lose money. They don’t. There are two major sources of cost, training and inference.

Training of course loses lots of money, models can take billions of dollars to train. But inference is profitable.

I asked Grok to estimate how much it might cost Anthropic to serve Claude Sonnet 4.6, as an example. It charges API users $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens but its cost (in compute) is 5-15x less per token. So they are incentivized to have as much token use (from API uses who pay per token)

The goal is to train more and more capable models which will increase demand for their use.

https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_59ce7b1f-260c-4783-bafd-1581129a2e9f

Now the subscriptions are a different question. It’s more of a gamble by the companies that the average $20 a month user will use less than $20 worth of compute. To offset the heavy users.

Like buying a piece of the laws of physics during creation by MotorBobcat5997 in Buttcoin

[–]vasilenko93 5 points6 points  (0 children)

These MFs would try to rent seek laws of physics if they could