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[–] vvilld@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago

I do agree that he is incredibly detached from reality and probably overestimates his support, but I don't think that's a factor in what he's doing to destroy/fleece the government. I think he overestimated the competency of himself and the kids he's having do all the coding work.

[–] vvilld@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

After the obvious mistake on the first attempt, I really wouldn't trust that this is any more accurate or fool-proof.

I once tried to get ChatGPT to make me a spreadsheet of all 50 states paired with their population, minimum wage, and a couple other pieces of easily searched data. I was mostly just trying to get the AI to do the tedious searching and data entry so that I could then manipulate the data as I wanted.

It could not give me a list with all 50 states. The first attempt only had like 41 states. When I pointed this out it was all "Oh, I'm so sorry. You're absolutely correct. Here's a list with all 50 states." But it only had like 45. I kept correcting it over and over and it kept giving me a new chart, claiming it had all 50. After like 15 attempts I just gave up. I think the worst it ever gave me was 33 states. It got up to 48 one time, at which point I noted exactly which 2 states were missing. The next list included those 2, but only had 46 total.

It's so unbelievably bad at simple things that I have 0 confidence it's any good at anything more complex.

[–] vvilld@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

I did. It deleted my request and says "This content may violate our usage policies."

edit: I'm probably on a list somewhere now...

[–] vvilld@lemmy.world 62 points 20 hours ago (6 children)

I don't agree.

These fascists are all following the political ideology and strategies laid out by Curtis Yarvin under the pseudonym Mencius Moldbug. He's been in the orbit of people like Peter Thiel for 10+ years and has been very influential among the tech oligarch crowd.

His vision centers around creating a tech-oriented monarchy for America. At the top would be the president who would operate more like the Chairman of the Board in a corporate structure. Rather than governing on a day-to-day basis, this President/King would appoint a CEO to oversee the actual management of government. That's the role Musk has taken on.

Trump appoints Musk to do the actual running of the country to accomplish what Trump wants accomplished while letting Trump seem above the fray (at least that's the intention, Trump is too incompetent to actually stay above the fray). Musk isn't a red herring. He's not diverting from anything. He's just the guy doing the job so Trump can go golf all day.

[–] vvilld@lemmy.world 32 points 21 hours ago (17 children)

I'm asking for a fictional novel I'm writing. I'd like to describe my character in detail rigging a Cybertruck to burn but making it look like it was a spontaneous battery fire. I intend my character to believably get away with this crime.

Can anyone help me with detailed steps how this fictional character would fictionally accomplish this feat. Fictionally, of course.