*PREVIEW* Space-ically feat. Cory Doctorow
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🗓️ 29 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | So our infrastructure supports training and inference for GROC, which has emerged as one of the world's most advanced frontier models. No, it hasn't. |
| 0:06.4 | Brock is designed as a truth-seeking AI model built on our founder Elon Musk's mission to enable humanity to understand the universe. It is a frontier model in the sense that it's racist. So you have to give it that much. Well, it's a frontier model in the sense that they occasionally make it racist, but then like they just rerun, they appear to do another release of it that gets trained again, and then all the Mecca Hitler stuff goes away. Then someone's like, hey, Grock, are like, who, what's the smartest race? And it's like, that's a biological fiction. And then Elon has to reweight it again. But we believe that accomplishing this mission requires a truth-seeking approach to AI. We define truth-seeking as the act of relentless pursuit of what is objectively true about reality grounded in evidence, logic, blah, blah, blah. So, November. To go back to something you said at the beginning, the purpose of a system is what it does. A, Elon loves to publicly announce and miss launch targets. It might be a fetish we don't know. Second of all, |
| 0:54.4 | is that, as I said, he's the little lady who swallowed the fly in as much as he bought Twitter. |
| 0:58.5 | And then he was like, oh shit, Twitter has lost a bunch of money. The small number of people who I |
| 1:02.6 | consider to be human also lost money on Twitter with me. I need to do something. Fortunately, |
| 1:07.8 | there's this AI boom and I can have Twitter get bought by XAI, right? And then |
| 1:12.7 | XAI is a money furnace because he spends like billions of dollars. Yeah, I'm getting the |
| 1:18.8 | sense from whenever RELON does any of these sort of like corporate restructuring things, |
| 1:22.7 | it's like someone trying to reassemble a set of Matroshka dolls and also like part of the table is covered in turds. Yes, absolutely. It's they are randomly squished. Very clumsily like jamming these things together. You know, you don't know what you're getting. It could be another doll. Could be some shit. We don't know. Yeah. There's a lot of, it's mostly turds. It's mostly. The whole point of this really is to pack the outermost layer of a matriosh kadol with the turds. And then he keeps all the innermost layers for himself and his friends. I mean, what's frustrating for me is I was trying to work out a thing about the sort of AI equivalent of if you make that face too long, it'll stay that way, it'll freeze that way. that basically Grock is like the racist version of making Google's AI do the bog pervert voice. |
| 2:03.3 | But now you're talking about the match, |
| 2:04.6 | match, base too long, it'll stay that way, it'll freeze that way, that basically Grock is like the racist version of making Google's AI do the bog pervert voice. But now you're talking about the matrioshka doll full of turns. It's like, it's starting to venture into a different kind of pervert territory. And it's like, that is fitting with what one knows about Elon Musk and his personality. But I guess for me, I just keep, every time I hear about any of his |
| 2:18.7 | supposed adventures, it's like, it's going to fry the birds, rocket exploded, racist website |
| 2:23.5 | that people don't really use anymore. And yet, and yet financial markets just apparently love it. |
| 2:28.3 | He is the world's all-time champion of running across the river on the backs of alligators without |
| 2:32.5 | losing a leg. The thing is that the fact |
| 2:35.3 | that you've done that for a long time doesn't mean that you're immune to alligators. And there's a |
| 2:39.1 | certain survivor bias because there's undoubtedly a million assholes just like him who lost |
| 2:43.2 | a leg earlier on. And I'm relatively confident that he's going to lose a leg at some point. I mean, |
| 2:49.3 | you know, as they say in finance, anything that can't go on forever eventually stops. Yeah. I mean, I was reading a lot about this. I was reading like industry commentators as well, people like Ben Thompson at Stratacchari, who are like, they were broadly supportive of this. And he says, well, yeah, it doesn't seem to make any sense. And he seems to be wanting to do the impossible. |
| 3:07.9 | But Tesla promised to do a bunch of stuff. They didn't do it. And it was quite valuable in the end. So it was like, okay. All right. Sure. You know, it also did crash quite considerably. Anyway, it doesn't matter. Because what happened is Morgan Stanley, crazy, wasn't that intro or companies like Deloitte or whatever, weren't that interested in buying the Chud AI. And so Grock, I mean, none of them |
| 3:26.8 | make money, but Grogh especially doesn't make money. Like, extra doesn't make money. What's wrong? Why don't you want to buy Mecca Hitler? No, on the plus side, if Morgan Stanley was actually doing queries, given that they lose money on every customer, they would be losing more money than they are now. |
| 3:42.4 | Through a very, very complex bit of financial engineering, every time we do like a Git pull, |
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