Like i said: he got lucky. Back in the 90s. So it went from a few million to a few hundred million/few billion.

rational

It literally cannot do that

Decisions

In the dame way a fist full of dice can make decisions; sure.

facts

If its programmed to run a script to do a google search and cite the first paragraph of wikipedia; sure. That function is basically eliza with an api call.

knowledge

Okay, sketch on what this actually means, but every answer i can think of, none of which im strongly committed to: still no.

Its a bullshit machine. Like recognizes like, but it can’t do anything else. If you think its intelligent, that’s because you are not.

Edit: And im really disappointed. I kind of always wanted a computer friend. I would adore the opportunity to midwife whole new forms of intelligence. That sounds really fucking cool. It’s the kind of thing i dreamed of as a kid, and this shit being sold as my childhood aspirations is blackpilling as fuck. I think the widespread acceptance of the bullshit sales pitch, and fact it means we’re less likely to get the real thing, has lead me to a lot of much more anti-human opinions than i used to have.

I think the fundanebtal problem is what a leader is.

I heard/read something about how to set up crews/packs/whatevertheyrecalled for competitive dog sledding. You don’t put the fastest or strongest dog in front. You put a curious adventurous dog in front.

So a ‘leader’ in this case, and i think what we need, isnt bosses or managers, but closer to explorers and scouts, people with initiative courage and creativity to try shit and be examples/report back. Solve disputes with evidence and forging known paths-that can still be disregarded or altered by those farther back.

And i think most of us can do that in at least one direction.

Not that we dont need coordinators or administrators at scale, but we dont have to pair those roles with authority/command. We can unbundle shit, cut out the rot/waste, and recombine it in new ways. Ask your radical queer friends about the concept!

Maybe, for example, administrative tasks pair better with caring tasks or research/social science tasks than authority ever allowed.

No, it doesnt. There is no interiority, no context, no meaning, no awareness, no continuity, such a long list of things intelligence does that this simply cqnt-not because its too small, but because the fundamental method cannot, at any scale, do these things.

There are a lot of definitions of intelligence, and these things dont fit any of them.

And (the probably mostly retired) roger stone; yes.

I dont pay much attention to that, my personal experience suggests it very strongly.

uncommon

I fucking wish. It’s an epidemic. Especially in positions of authority and wealth. Not sure what that correlation implies, but it exists.

No, dude, its already done. Your bank account is their bank account.

Trump might not understand, but miller bannon etc do, and they’re the ones actually acting here.

Why steal shit they already own?

Yeah, it’s impossible to move stuff without cars.

Okay but have you considered that the lives saved would belong to filthy peds and cyclists, and no number of their dead and mangled bodies merits slightly inconveniencing a good upstanding driver even very sightly?

Because literally every policy maker has.

Have you considered real life activism?

Alternative step 1 that somehow works: always say the most personally cruel things you can think of without being a bigot to everybody at all times.

It kinda used to!

Not yo say he was good. He did some horrid shit, but he’s the one us president I’d be genuinely shocked to find was a pedophile.

Msome of us keep the flame burning with metaphorical shit.

Genuine support for increasing breast size of everything. My fridge could use some improvements.

It’s really really not difficult.

And he didn’t get to that scale by being good. He got there by starting rich. By knowing the language and cultural values of high-umami homonids, and having a shit ton of daddy’s money to do it. Any skill was his father, errol musk, either in exploitation or the use of his dick. Baby Leo’s just reaping the rewards, with about the same level of scamminess youd use you get fake food stamps and build a game breaking d&d character from an online guide.

Honey, babe, sweetie, dear, aside from the blatantly corrupt assignment of federal contracts to themselves:

Look up what ‘finality of payments’ is. Cancelling that means… Think of it them having root access to every bank account based in the united states.

Yeah, having legal ways to murder kids is going to be a big deal for the right pretty soon, and it’s always been a consequence reducer to do your crimes with a car.

Musk is good at scamming the government. He also started with lots and got lucky. His dad was the competent evil one.

There are studies that prove being too wealthy rots your brain. Plus the incredibly reckless drug abuse. So even if he was competent before, you can count on that being diminished. The threshold for that is actually shockingly low; in the low 6 figures 2010s usd.