I had this happen many years ago, to the point there was no chance something wasn’t listening. We suspected it was my partners iPhone with Facebook installed before they got better about preventing abuse like that, as it was a Facebook ad that showed up.

Were talking about something where we never use the product, would never use the product, but it came up in a conversation just between the 2 of us, and there were ads the next day.

It happened a few times.

If youre trying to call me out for calling them out, its not the same and this falls flat.

These are all saying things and the world can and should be better.

This guy said I wont use anything that AI had any involvement in.

It’d be like saying I wont use an iPhone because apple is evil while using an iPhone.

Not apple really needs to do better, im not happy with some things they do, while using an iPhone.

I ran into someone who was adamant he wouldn’t use anything that touched AI.

I showed him how the fediverse app he was using to tell me that he wouldnt use AI had AI involvement.

He’s still using it.

If its real time monitoring you, but not if its logging data to send later when it would be expected to be doing so.

Audio doesnt take up much space.

Even if it was open source, you’d need to be able to verify what they ship matches the specs. Allowing you to flash whatever you want onto it helps, but you still need to validate the hardware.

I dont know. You’d need to reverse engineer the hardware and software to be confident, and could a OTA update then sneak a bypass in anyway?

Edit: i think Amazon might have abandoned this as well and always records on echos now too.

Im a perfect world, as they claim, its a secondary system listening that isn’t recording or transmitting anything, and is meant to be low power. If it hears the wake up word, it wakes up the other mic and starts recording.

Thats how they claim the smart speakers work anyway.

This would be different.

The government is too risk adverse to take the massive long shots that the private companies can take, and would have to answer to their constituents on all the failures.

NASA would never try to make something like Starship. The world didn’t even think you could make a properly re-usable first stage rocket.

They would inherit the existing technology, and then slowly flatline back to their current state of operation.

Edit: Just to further make the point - SpaceX isn’t just trying to make a reusable rocket with starship, they’re already building a massive production line under the assumption it’s going to work. They want to make up to a 1000 of these a year and are building towards that already. Go try and pitch that to congress for funding.

Nobody has bought it yet. It starts on June 29th onwards with a few dates after for different funds.

Its going into the nasdaq 100 soon, but not all funds with exposure to nasdaq follow that.

Its good S&P said no, that would have been much worse.

The US government couldn’t do what they did. Nationalization of it wouldn’t continue the (at least pre xai) trajectory. There might be more ways to exert control / influence though.

SLS has been a mess.

You could have shorted it with options the Tuesday after the IPO.

Ive wanted to do it on many IPOs after the the first spike, which in this case was when they hit 215+, as they all follow this pattern but im never confident enough to do it since the market is whack.

But id have made money every time I wanted to so far if I did.

Edit: it’ll almost certainly go down more as the insider lockout period ends as well.

Pretty sure that date to buy has not happened yet. It wasnt a day 1 thing, it was something like inclusion after 15 days.

People are trying to front run it, to make profit when it happens.

Edit

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/spcx-etfs-index-funds-buy-050100941.html

Hasn’t happened yet.

The 60b to cursor was all stock, they didnt lose a penny of their cash.

They can’t remove him, he owns the majority of voting shares.

They would need to do multiple more offerings to dwindle that down, and id be shocked if he ever gave up enough shares to be at risk.

I’ve only done it once, but I got saved by being on a hill while parking. I had wanted the hill to let me roll back a little bit and I was going to stop it with the brake, but instead I lurched forward because I hit the accelerator. Given I was on a hill though my mistake had to work against the uphill and I didn’t jump up to far before I took my foot off, rolled back a little, and properly braked. It was very strange and confusing in the moment.

I’d be curious how often this happens with basic cruise control on the highways, but (edit: I suspect) highways are more forgiving to the mistake than with something like FSD on windy neighbourhood streets.

Tesla says they overrode the self driving system.

https://x.com/DirtyTesLa/status/2069173692211360042

“Pedal fully pressed in the FSD crash. It was fairly obvious to anyone that uses FSD it does not drive like that.”

Ashok from Tesla: “Yup. In this case, the driver manually overrode self-driving by pressing the accelerator all the way to 100% of the accel pedal in this residential area. They reached a speed of 73 mph during the crash, and had the accelerator pressed even after the crash.”

edit: My guess, he wanted disengage the system so he went to press the brake, but pressed the accelerator by mistake instead. When it didn’t stop / disengage as expected, as is always the case in these types of situations, he pressed it harder because he was sure he pressed the right pedal. At that point he probably starts yanking on the steering wheel, or the turns were too tight for that speed. I’m sure we’ll get more details later when the full report is done.

Pretty much yep. Elon has a controlling interest in SpaceX so I think that was just his outright decision, unless he had to abstain and let the investors decide? I’m not sure if he had a controlling stake in xAI.

Edit: You also left off ‘overvalued’ when referring to xAI/Twitter. I think SpaceX honestly could have grown into it’s individual valuation pre-merger.

We’re back to this again eh?

I think people might see that sometimes, but not understand why, because they just see a starship blows up headlines and don’t understand what is happening as it’s a test program (for now), and the headlines / stories don’t convey that.

So when things explode, sometimes it’s fine, and the stock might go up because a lot of really important things still were tested, some for the first time, and they went well.

Other times, things will explode and it can cause huge delays, and while they learn something, it’s still ‘bad’ compared to the above blow ups, and the stock will very likely go down when these ones happen.

And then sometimes, something goes wrong on the test pad and you blow it up, and that is very bad. It’s a test pad, its meant for that, but it causes huuuuuge delays.

But OP is right, they brought this new chaos upon themselves by going public. They really shouldn’t have done it yet.