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724 points simonw | 5 comments | 11 Jul 25 00:22 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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marcusb ◴[11 Jul 25 01:22 UTC] No.44527530[source]▶
This reminds me in a way of the old Noam Chomsky/Tucker Carlson exchange where Chomsky says to Carlson:

  "I’m sure you believe everything you’re saying. But what I’m saying is that if you believed something different, you wouldn’t be sitting where you’re sitting."
Simon may well be right - xAI might not have directly instructed Grok to check what the boss thinks before responding - but that's not to say xAI wouldn't be more likely to release a model that does agree with the boss a lot and privileges what he has said when reasoning.
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dupsik ◴[11 Jul 25 05:37 UTC] No.44528706[source]▶
That quote was not from a conversation with Tucker Carlson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nBx-37c3c8
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ZeroGravitas ◴[11 Jul 25 06:35 UTC] No.44528982[source]▶
Interestingly, someone said the same about Tucker Carlson's position on Fox News and it was Tucker Carlson, a few years before he got the job.

https://youtu.be/RNineSEoxjQ?t=7m50s

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LAC-Tech ◴[11 Jul 25 08:48 UTC] No.44529793[source]▶
Wasn't Tucker Carlson essentially kicked off of Fox for believing something different?
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indolering ◴[11 Jul 25 10:34 UTC] No.44530572[source]▶
He was kicked off for being a sex pest and knowingly pushing the election lies internally at Fox News.
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1. DesiLurker ◴[11 Jul 25 17:41 UTC] No.44535006{3}[source]▶
I am convinced that the whole 'sexual abuse' thing is very common in upper echelons and make for a convenient excuse to take down someone now towing the line.

I almost always look for 'root cause' when I hear a sexual abuse scandle taking down someone in power.

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2. msgodel ◴[11 Jul 25 23:45 UTC] No.44537954[source]▶
I wish people would shut up about it. It's gotten to the point where normal peers can hardly even talk about sex without being afraid of getting in trouble.

Flirting with coworkers is fine, natural even. Calm down or become a shut in and leave the rest of us alone.

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3. medler ◴[12 Jul 25 03:51 UTC] No.44539139[source]▶
I go to work to work, not to hear about other people’s sex lives. Save that kind of talk for your friends, or talk to your mom about it, but don’t involve me. I shouldn’t have to hear about it just because we both work on the same widget.

By the way, Carlson did a lot more than flirt. He allegedly retaliated against an employee for rejecting his advances. That’s horrible.

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4. DesiLurker ◴[12 Jul 25 17:41 UTC] No.44543635{3}[source]▶
I agree it is horrible but the point I am making is this type of stuff is more common than we'd think. So almost anyone with power would have some 'skeletons in the closet'.

think about it, we lost al franken as senator but still have DJT as president (& many more if you think DJT is unstoppable).

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