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Ask them why God wants to cover up the Epstein files.

Perhaps in absolute terms.

We don't know if this is the case

Right. That's exactly what I've been saying.

Quite possibly. Not all breaches of contract are a result of corruption, but some could be, sure.

But that's not my point. My point is that this isn't relevant to SpaceX investing its money in some other company. It's SpaceX money, not "government" money. They can waste it on stupid hitlerbots if they want to.

At that point the problem then isn't "SpaceX is investing in Grok AI", it's "SpaceX is violating its contract with NASA by not doing the work it's been paid to do."

That would indeed be a problem, if true. But it's a completely different problem.

Most roadwork contractors are spending most of the money doing job and paying employees, not funneling it to an neonazi AI.

Sure, and that's their choice. It's their money to invest, be they good investments or bad ones.

I'm not saying that funnelling money into xAI is a good idea. I happen to think it's a terrible idea, I would much rather that SpaceX not do that. But it's not corruption.

SpaceX has taken a ton of money from taxpayers, (at the expense of NASA,) but hasn't been making good progress on the Artemis program, for example.

It's got a milestone-based contract with NASA for Artemis. It's paid to achieve milestones. So if it hasn't been making good progress it isn't getting paid.

If you think the contract could be better written then maybe that's on NASA to do a better job negotiating. It has nothing to do with Grok one way or the other.

It's almost as if this were a community where we discussed new technologies that are just emerging and haven't become well-established yet.

SpaceX is a private company, once it has been paid money that money is SpaceX's and is not taxpayer money any more. It's been spent. If the government hired a contractor to build a road, paid them to do so, and then the contractor took the money they'd been paid and invested it in some other company that the contractor owned, is that "corruption?"

Insert standard disclaimer here; Elon Musk is a terrible person and he's made a lot of terrible decisions, etc. and so forth. It's not going to stop me from being called a bootlicker, not sure why I bother inserting it.

Not home users, but small businesses could. It can ensure total information security.

My main recordings folder is 175 GB, for a little over ten years worth of recordings. That's not really all that much - consider how much a terabyte hard drive costs these days, it's a trivial expense. Even when you include the various backups I keep (definitely don't want a crash to take all that out).

My GPU's reasonably hefty, an RTX 4090 with 24GB of VRAM. But AI is a rapidly changing technology right now so who knows what the next six months will bring. Someone might come out with an awesome lightweight model, someone might announce they're going to be selling a cheap AI-specific card. My view has always been "save the data now because you can't save it later if you didn't save it now. You can process it any time."

They do have guards on the sides, so it's not completely out in the open.

Hopefully politics won't get involved in the final report like it did in the EgyptAir case.

Not that often, but my search tools aren't very refined yet so it's probably a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem. The technology is advancing rapidly right now so I'm not putting a whole lot of effort into polish yet, since in six months some dramatic new tool might come out that invalidates everything I did so far. Like that potential WhisperX switch.

Most recently, I remember a situation where I didn't remember the name of some NPCs from a roleplaying game that were only in one or two adventures. I did a little searching and found them in a transcript from 2017. That was fun.