The thing is Elon and his dad make it worse with their toxic political ideology which they insist on shoving down everyone’s throats. If they kept their mouths shut the world be a little better.

And we might agree (I do at least) that every car should be an EV, but mass car culture is still mass car culture, EVs don't help one bit there.

Noise pollution, tire pollution, huge paved areas for roads and parking, driver's desire for pedestrians and cyclists to keep out of the way, thus making threats of death and injury a required part of the culture.

All these problems are still there with EVs.

Edit: before Elon went full fascist, who do you think was trying to convince you EVs weren’t possible? This is all the same struggle

LLMs are very expensive to make and operate. All LLM companies have burned through billions trying to hook customers through subsidized pricing. Datacenters have physical world realities that software does not and bringing them online is slow. So compute hungry LLMs are getting real world limits imposed, so LLM companies are moving to usage based billing. Enterprise customers are getting a taste of what’s to come with exploding LLM costs. Learning these tools are actually not cheap.

So SpaceX hiding xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. need to IPO before the truth comes out. Their investors want a return ASAP so they don’t take huge losses when the truth is exposed. To do this they changed the rules of the Nasdaq to allow these upside down companies to be placed on the index so index funds and other algorithmic buyers push the risk to the public.

The public buys and takes on high risk, early investors can cash out to a level of risk they are happy with. A handful of billionaires and new trillionaires laugh all the way to the bank because their latest confidence game worked.

Privatize profits and socialize losses at its finest.

Not that it matters in any case...

I say it out loud, publicly traded corporations eventually do evil. Backup question: ask them for examples of benign traded corps or ones thst advance welfare of citizens.

Its the "traded" distinction that matters

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