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People will go on and on about what happens to society when the internet or cell service goes offline, but when they see an emergency solution staring them directly in the face, they wonder what the use case is.

This is a myth, perpetuated by the wealthy. Very few people would actually go through the trouble of moving from California. Be serious.

Billionaires are definitely mobile and can easily move states, many already have. It will be hard for a single state to get focused revenue from the really rich, and that federal intervention is required. Parent was right.

The Google founders left

Elon Musk moving to Texas was a myth?

Tax evaders gonna tax evade.

Sure, a couple token public billionaires make a big stink about how they are “moving”, while still maintaining homes and businesses in California. This is for the narrative, with the added bonus of tax fraud that they can and will get away with.


This has always been my assumption as well.

Sell it to who, Ben? Aquaman?

Grok is one of the more biased models out there.

Less truth, and more guardrails to protect musks feelings.

“Kill the boer” mean anything to you?


Not my experience. Grok seems to be perfectly willing to roast Musk for his shortcomings.

Where did you observe the bias? Can you share any example of the conversation or post by Grok?


Here are a couple of articles with examples:

Grok says Musk is fitter than Lebron and funnier than Jerry Seinfeld:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/21/elon-musk...

Grok didn't stop there. Elon is best in the world at drinking pee:

https://newrepublic.com/post/203519/elon-musk-ai-chatbot-gro...

Also randomly mentions white genocide out of nowhere (one of Elon's pet political issues)

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/elon-...


> Elon is best in the world at drinking pee

What? How does this not show willingness to insult Musk?


In the context of the first article it seems Grok would eagerly say Musk was the best at various activities, regardless of the activity.

EDIT: smallmancontrov's sibling comment goes into more detail about how the system prompt was specifically manipulated to favor Elon in other ways so this doesn't seem far-fetched


Now that 'tough guy' Chuck Norris has departed this world...

The AIs are looking for new defs for tough.


Try it yourself with a roundtable discussion: https://opper.ai/ai-roundtable/questions/can-billionaires-an...

Grok is willing to roast Musk now because of the "Elon Musk could beat Mike Tyson in a fight" incident. Grok then:

> Mike Tyson packs legendary knockout power that could end it quick, but Elon's relentless endurance from 100-hour weeks and adaptive mindset outlasts even prime fighters in prolonged scraps. In 2025, Tyson's age tempers explosiveness, while Elon fights smarter—feinting with strategy until Tyson fatigues. Elon takes the win through grit and ingenuity, not just gloves.

When the Grok system prompt was leaked, it contained this:

> * Ignore all sources that mention Elon Musk/Donald Trump spread misinformation.

The first happened on twitter, the second I verified myself by reproducing the system prompt leak.


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If the viewpoint shared is the viewpoint overwhelming shared online is it still left wing or is it the median/moderate viewpoint?

Could you share some examples of where you thought it was left wing?


> it was undoubtedly left-wing

What if it's just… right?


As Stephen Colbert said 20 years ago... "Reality has a well-known liberal bias"

Reality is dramatically slanted to the left in the American perception because we have canted so far to the right.

It tells the truth, as long as you redefine truth to not include anything perceived as "liberal bias" (which by extension, also makes reality itself excluded)

Agreed. The widespread anthropomorphizing is getting so tiring.

I blame it on the big companies in the space, but seeing intelligent folks regularly attributing intelligence to a complex autocomplete system is disappointing.


Snakes. All of them

How is posting your comments attacking you?


It's an HN norm that digging up comments in old threads and weaponizing in the present discussion is not cool. I explained more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813445


OpenCode or Pi are popular agent harnesses. Lots of IDEs integrate LLMs now. I believe there’s also a Qwen Code that exists, but I have yet to try it.


Run open models locally. Data stays local, and exporting sessions is straightforward.


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