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electrondood commented on How to rig elections [video]   media.ccc.de/v/why2025-21... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
monkeyelite · 15 days ago
What do you think about the 2020 election?
electrondood · 15 days ago
It was well-litigated by the Trump administration, and none of their frivolous claims held up. They lost ~60 of their 63 court cases, and the 3 they won were technicalities.

2020 was a free and fair election.

electrondood commented on Show HN: I accidentally built a startup idea validation tool   validationly.com/... · Posted by u/kptbarbarossa
electrondood · 16 days ago
Oh sure... I'll just give you my idea to make Uber but for dogs.
electrondood commented on AI is propping up the US economy   bloodinthemachine.com/p/t... · Posted by u/mempko
0cf8612b2e1e · 24 days ago

  Over the last six months, capital expenditures on AI—counting just information processing equipment and software, by the way—added more to the growth of the US economy than all consumer spending combined. You can just pull any of those quotes out—spending on IT for AI is so big it might be making up for economic losses from the tariffs, serving as a private sector stimulus program.
Wow.

electrondood · 24 days ago
For context though, consumer spending has contracted significantly.
electrondood commented on Eleven Music   elevenlabs.io/blog/eleven... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
tlaverdure · 24 days ago
I've played guitar for 23 years, and there is something just off-putting about most of the music on that page, but particularly "Yellow Bus Jam".

The guitar solo sounds very unnatural, especially the phrasing, which is totally random. Blues musicians are actually attempting to say something through their instrument. This was just a random number generated solo played by a 6 finger three handed robot. No thanks, lol.

electrondood · 24 days ago
I had the same sentiment, but also recall what generated human hands looked like a year ago vs. now.

The solo was pretty funny though.

electrondood commented on Futurehome smart hub owners must pay new $117 subscription or lose access   arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/duxup
rfwhyte · a month ago
Sounds like the new owners of this already morally and financially bankrupt company are going to go bankrupt all over again if they are trying to pull this kind of scam bait and switch on their small and shrinking user base.
electrondood · a month ago
Seriously. Who is going to buy another Futurehome product knowing that they feel entitled to extort their customers, whose only alternative is to remove the devices integrated into their home?
electrondood commented on US AI Action Plan   ai.gov/action-plan... · Posted by u/joelburget
electrondood · a month ago
Morality and religion are entirely independent dimensions.
electrondood commented on Elon Musk's Grok praises Hitler, shares antisemitic tropes in new posts   axios.com/2025/07/08/elon... · Posted by u/12_throw_away
salawat · 2 months ago
You misunderstand. There is no Quality Control you can do for these things. They're ill-conditioned function imitators. Small changes in input, yield massive changes in output. You can't QC that. You can only clean up after it.
electrondood · 2 months ago
That's completely false. You run evals.

edit: you're supposed to run evals.

electrondood commented on Tesla Robotaxi launch is a dangerous game of smoke and mirrors   electrek.co/2025/06/16/te... · Posted by u/apayan
standardUser · 2 months ago
Waymo has already lapped Tesla. They sell 250,000 rides per week and rising, for a total well over 10 million. That compares to precisely zero rides sold commercially by Tesla. It's possible Tesla could catch up, but first they need to stop losing ground and develop technology that can actually compete with their leading competitor. Plus, right now the Tesla brand is synonymous with the most obnoxious blowhard in America. Meanwhile the Waymo brand is on the way to becoming the "Kleenex" of self-driving technology.
electrondood · 2 months ago
Waymo has been "scaling" down the Peninsula from SF for about 18 months now, and it's still not generally available.

Tesla can scale by simply adding vehicles.

electrondood commented on Tesla Robotaxi launch is a dangerous game of smoke and mirrors   electrek.co/2025/06/16/te... · Posted by u/apayan
partiallypro · 2 months ago
I think if Robotaxis take off, then his politics won't matter at all. People aren't going to care what brand of car comes to pick them up as long as they feel safe. I've been bearish on Tesla for years and they always prove me wrong. Robotaxis/Waymos are going to be national thing within the decade. It's just a bet on who survives, the biggest loser will be gig workers, that part I feel confident about.
electrondood · 2 months ago
I disagree. Most rideshares happen in urban areas, where people are liberal. Liberals hate Musk. If you have the choice to take MAGAtaxi or a Waymo, as a liberal that's an obvious choice.
electrondood commented on Tesla Robotaxi launch is a dangerous game of smoke and mirrors   electrek.co/2025/06/16/te... · Posted by u/apayan
electrondood · 2 months ago
Check the source. Elektrek cranks out anti-Tesla articles. Hardly fair and objective.

u/electrondood

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