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hobbesmaster posted:the NFL was a special type of “non profit” created for them or maybe MLB? basically the overarching administrative body of a pro sports league could operate as a “pass through” entity to the teams making up the league. same ballpark as the impression i got when i visited america for the first time in the 90s was "non profit" just means "tax break" it doesnt mean "charity" in any way hot take i know, but i was 20 so i felt like idk stevie nicks or whoever Carthag Tuek fucked around with this message at 03:13 on Mar 25, 2023 |
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but also lest we forget, i dont think elon is aware of any of this any post he makes thats longer than "concerning" or "looking into it" is probably copypasted from reddit or something
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the nonprofit still exists and owns the LP (limited partnership). it seems to me that the nonprofit takes "donations" (but only from extremely specific people, i.e. investors) and then distributes that money to the llc, which the investors then get equity in alongside employees, who get stock like a more normal startup the wiki explanation of it is pretty good: quote:In the United States, the limited partnership organization is most common among film production companies and real estate investment projects, or in types of businesses that focus on a single or limited-term project. They are also useful in "labor-capital" partnerships, where one or more financial backers prefer to contribute money or resources while the other partner performs the actual work. In such situations, liability is the driving concern behind the choice of limited partnership status. The limited partnership is also attractive to firms wishing to provide shares to many individuals without the additional tax liability of a corporation. Private equity companies almost exclusively use a combination of general and limited partners for their investment funds. Well-known limited partnerships include Enterprise Products and Blackstone Group (both of which are public companies), and Bloomberg L.P. (a private company).
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quote:On Thursday, The Information reported that Shivon Zillis, an OpenAI board member, had stepped down. Zillis, who gave birth to Musk’s twins, did not respond to requests for comment.
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she's the nuralink one too, i think
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infernal machines posted:she's the nuralink one too, i think i hope so, itd be double sad if that fuckhead who relies on goverment handouts so much had even more children to not give a poo poo about
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infernal machines posted:she's the nuralink one too, i think yes
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infernal machines posted:she's the nuralink one too, i think she is but you'd never know it from her website lol https://www.shivonzilis.com/about that mugshot though
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oh poo poo, she does a thing at u of t
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infernal machines posted:oh poo poo, she does a thing at u of t you should release an attack chimp on her
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technically twitter is a nonprofit as well
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Beeftweeter posted:he thinks bingGPT is going to end the world i guess There's a part in one of the lesser known Werner Herzog documentaries (about the internet or something) where he interviews Musk. He just kind rambles on incoherently about the threat of AI and his fear for humanity from AI. Then he goes all quiet and like, stares off into the distance and seems to choke up or something. Maybe shits his pants, idk, it's unclear. Anyway the point is that after watching that, it's extremely clear he really believes this nonsense. He's deeply deeply stupid and pisses his pants over a chatbot that churns out writing on the level of a C+ highschool student who did the assignment the night before it was due.
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Improbable Lobster posted:you should release an attack chimp on her i think shakma retired. also, was a baboon
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i think elon should do another presentation of the tesla robot if he's so worried about all the attention openai is getting
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maybe he could announce they've hooked it up to tesla's gpt engine and show the results
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infernal machines posted:i think shakma retired. also, was a baboon shakma boers
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mrmcd posted:There's a part in one of the lesser known Werner Herzog documentaries (about the internet or something) where he interviews Musk. He just kind rambles on incoherently about the threat of AI and his fear for humanity from AI. Then he goes all quiet and like, stares off into the distance and seems to choke up or something. Maybe shits his pants, idk, it's unclear. this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo_and_Behold,_Reveries_of_the_Connected_World
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mrmcd posted:There's a part in one of the lesser known Werner Herzog documentaries (about the internet or something) where he interviews Musk. He just kind rambles on incoherently about the threat of AI and his fear for humanity from AI. Then he goes all quiet and like, stares off into the distance and seems to choke up or something. Maybe shits his pants, idk, it's unclear. i don't doubt he believes it because it's one of the very few consistent things he's said throughout the time i've been aware of him as a public figure. it's also clear to me that he intends to try and preempt this by having control over whatever ai he thinks will become dominant by creating it first, or at least by funding the people that will do that (though i think he would prefer some sort of control because that's just the type of person he is) as a result i can see openai becoming successful without him being simultaneously: a big blow to his ego, a technological competitor (because he does not know the difference between a predictive LLM and, say, FSD), and also a potential threat to humanity (because he has believed this for a very long time and cannot explain how it works). of course, that's all silly and easily explicable, he's a loving moron
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musks fear of ai comes from the same place as all his other ideas: the lovely sf novels he read in the 1980s
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FMguru posted:musks fear of ai comes from the same place as all his other ideas: the lovely sf novels he read in the 1980s helped out case, gave the rastas a ton of money
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Nessus posted:neuromancer was a nice guy wait, wait, gave money to rastas? i think we know what lonny fears
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musk has the energy of the tessier-ashpools, trapped in their degenerating cycles in a gilded, dilapidated palace except it's twitter hq and instead of a ninja some dudes gotta stands guard while he pees if you told me he's really 3musk i'd believe it because he looks like a pale copy
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Agile Vector posted:musk has the energy of the tessier-ashpools, trapped in their degenerating cycles in a gilded, dilapidated palace full blown habsboergers
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FAUXTON posted:full blown habsboergers ![]()
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FAUXTON posted:full blown habsboergers
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FAUXTON posted:full blown habsboergers ![]()
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Another good one in the wild in response to the hiding checkmark he flinched and everybody saw it and they're doubling down its great ![]() seems inaccurate tho, iirc the idiot who descended from technocratic russian fascists doesn't have custody or access to his kids? the only people calling him daddy are the poo poo garglers on twitter who want seen pies to notice them
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FAUXTON posted:shakma boers lol
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i am a moron posted:PKD was insanely insane and also knew the score. I wish he could’ve kept up his peak output longer or been given more time to work out his mental health. Totally out of the loop here - who is PKD?
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DX24TB1 posted:Totally out of the loop here - who is PKD? author phillip k dick
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Improbable Lobster posted:author phillip k dick Ah, makes sense. Thanks!
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Improbable Lobster posted:author phillip k dick Philip K Dick my balls! hmm wait a sec
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Expo70 posted:the only people calling him daddy are the poo poo garglers on twitter who want seen pies to notice them i think thats meant to be the kids he has with brines talking to each other. its loving weird and creepy but still e: lol not changing that
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Beeftweeter posted:i think thats meant to be the kids he has with brines talking to each other. its loving weird and creepy but still woman smells like a roll of pickles
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:woman smells like a roll of pickles
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:woman smells like a roll of pickles
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:Philip K Dick my balls! philip kill dick
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:woman smells like a roll of pickles
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DX24TB1 posted:Totally out of the loop here - who is PKD? clearly it's Paul Keens-Douglas, a renowned caribbean comedian. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79L_nZkHcYU
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:powerwall chat reminded me of someone figuring out they were pretty easy to hack into wirelessly, and could very likely be issued a series of commands that would lead to a thermal runaway i can think of a way you might be able to do this in the commissioning phase if you were there on-site for a couple hours during strong sunlight with a large enough PV system and kept doing stuff in the commissioning interface well after you got confirmation that it was working, so i think that is probably possible if you can get into some of the backend commands and the specific system and sunlight intensity is good enough. i don't think this is a tesla-specific thing though. like odds of someone knowing you have a battery backup and finding a way to intercept a wifi signal (these can also be ethernet instead of wifi), and then hacking into it and then getting access to backend commands or whatever, absurd scenario in general that i don't think most companies would even consider, i bet it's possible to do with other battery backups of the same battery chemistry fermun fucked around with this message at 14:06 on Mar 25, 2023 |
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