But OpenAI is the worst enemy because it's in their name. I would liken them to Iran or Cuba.

Freedom is slavery.

And the self proclaimed free speech absolutist can’t brownnose fast enough.

More money for them.

- The AI companies came to the White House to ask for legal protections and concessions, expecting a fight

- The Trump administration rolled over completely and wholeheartedly, and the companies were surprised how easily he did it and what (to them) sane positions he took

- Trump's earnest enthusiasm for AI looks really bad by association

- AI insiders are now seeding him with increasingly insane ideas in order to create distance from the "sane" positions the industry is taking

I'd much rather follow Heinlein's free thinking instead of Trump's dictatorialism, and Heinlein never requested followers, but there is a similar mechanism going on nevertheless.

Like people walk around with their pants around their knees because they see that thugs wear them like that and they dream about being thugs. Or people who call each other "bro".

These are also normally people who weight the style more than the substance.

Save reactions like this for users of incel-speak like *maxxing.

In reality what happened is that you saw other people, people that you like and admire, saying grok and you copied them. You're copying the superficialities thinking that makes you closer in substance. It's cargo cult science for people.

You have absolutely no way of knowing this.

> You're copying the superficialities thinking that makes you closer in substance.

Classic strawman.

> It's cargo cult science for people.

It could be, but it very well might not be.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50013882.

The money finds him useful, and that manifests as plot armor essentially as the puppeteers exert their will on society.

I want to touch on the for decades thing too, but I think I'm at my run-on sentence limit. Hard agree, though. John Trump had his hands up the right asses to make that a reality. It's never been Don. He's a child king.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kendalltaggart/trumps-l...

Well, this isn't a dictatorship, and I ain't playing along. I'll call it what I choose, not what I'm told.

When pressuring a witness, etc, the gangster will always end the intimidation with making the victim repeat whatever humiliating or farcical line the gangster wants to be the new reality. It's forcing a visible submission.

— Emmanuel Goldstein, The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism

If that makes me his enemy, well, that's his choice.

And:

> the highly accepted new and more accurate term, 'Super Intelligence,'

Highly accepted? Let's, um, just call that "not yet proven". More accurate? Let's just say that's "disputable". New? Yeah, I'll give him that one.

Look, Mr. Trump. You're my president. You're not my king, my dictator, or my technical dictionary. You're an office-holder whose legitimate powers are circumscribed by the Constitution, and ordering me not to use certain terms isn't in there. (In fact, rather the opposite. See Amendment 1.)

Expect more of this. Wouldn't put it past him if he in Nov 2028 decides to rename a state after himself.

He probably knows he'll be quickly forgotten once people wake up and stop giving him oxygen. And how sad is it that he still has to work overtime at his age.

I still think they should have duked it out behind the bleachers or whatever it was those geezer were rambling about one election cycle. I'd have bought the PPV even.

October 4, 2026

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