Meanwhile, in China they got the best video models cause they don't care much about IP. The irony that China, by being a threat, is preventing the west from lurching toward totalitarian is really interesting.

Yandex also easily finds copyrighted stuff and other various types of wrongthink banned by Google.

I know you guys hate X/Twitter but the muted words feature is really awesome for this kind of thing. You never have to hear about a topic you don't give a crap about ever again.

you can essentially mute words on hcker.news. You can set exclusion filters in the settings. Those can be turned into rss feeds as well.

The difference is AI has no time preference. Even the most determined anti-social person does not like having his time wasted. AI can sit there waiting for your prompt for a billion years and not care.

Hand sewers complain life is meaningless because the Jackard loom makes sewing trivial now.

Looms are for weaving. If you try to get workers to sew with their looms it could be dangerous, maybe it rips their hands off, and then how will you get rid of the pile of detached hands? You'll have to flush them down the hand sewer. Also: Jacquard.

The next model in two weeks is going to be even better and you won't use it cause you're paranoid and believe propaganda.

A tool that only people who trust Elon can use.

Elon wanted X to be a universal app like WeChat. Communication, payment, government services (and probably one-shop stop for user surveillance)... Wahey, looking forward to Grokbot telling its users "we logged in to your bank account and moved all your money to BankX, it's got the best interest rate!"

I wonder what grok "unhinged" would do to your social calendar/bank account.

All of you that are excited for the m5 mac studios are going to be so bummed.

The ideological capture of Google and the gatekeeping around the ring of effective altruism AI power around there probably led to the demoralization of the technologists.

I think it was pretty clear that their AI efforts were in trouble when their AI Image generator would only make an African American George Washington, and that dude in AI research was demanding that the much earlier generation AI was conscious and had should have rights. At least at Grok, Elon said he wanted an AI dedicated to the truth which is an easier target to hit than what the Google gatekeepers probably wanted. The ideological purity of a Google AI must have been a real moving target though, and retraining an AI is not an cheap or fast thing.

Hard to explain the departure of Timnit Gebru if that's the case. Unless you think they actually changed corporate culture so dramatically because of that event...

I recommend touching grass.

Meanwhile, the AI critics got an enormous war chest thanks to Vitalic giving them all his dog coins as a joke that ended up being worth almost a billion to fight against AI.

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/03/14/vitalik-buterin-...