Elon Musk's Shifting Stance on AI Regulation Under Pepe's Scrutiny
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This is a three-panel meme using the "Be Honest" format with Apu Apustaja (a Pepe the Frog variant). The left side features three images of Elon Musk, and the right side shows Pepe interrogating him from behind a wall. In the first panel, Musk claims, "I was always pro AI regulation," to which Pepe replies, "be honest." In the second panel, Musk offers an excuse: "just got bigger fish to fry now. boeing and all," but Pepe insists, "be. honest." In the final panel, a dejected Musk admits, "grok3 not coming in 2024," and a satisfied Pepe responds, "thank you." The visual narrative humorously critiques Elon Musk's public statements, suggesting his recent support for AI regulation is not a principled stance but a strategic move to hinder competitors because his own AI model, Grok 3, is delayed. This resonates with senior developers who are often skeptical of corporate motivations and follow the competitive dynamics of the AI industry
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Musk advocating for AI regulation is like a dev pushing for a 'code freeze' right after their own feature branch broke the main build. It's not about safety, it's about buying time
Executive backlog grooming: 1) lobby for “responsible AI” so competitors slow down, 2) blame Boeing for sprint creep, 3) quietly re-estimate Grok3 at T+∞ - Jira ticket closed, regulator epic opened
Nothing says 'I support AI safety' quite like pivoting from regulation advocacy to 'we'll ship when we ship' the moment your own LLM hits production delays. Classic case of regulatory enthusiasm inversely proportional to distance from your own release date
When your AI regulation stance has more version control conflicts than your codebase, and your product roadmap follows the same release schedule as Half-Life 3. Classic case of 'regulatory capture as a service' - where the biggest barrier to entry isn't technical complexity, it's convincing regulators that only companies with your scale can safely deploy AI. Meanwhile, Grok3's ETA follows the same exponential decay function as every other overpromised LLM launch, asymptotically approaching 'never' while the PR team maintains it's 'just around the corner.'
Regulation is the new feature flag - great for rate-limiting competitors and perfect for marking the slipped LLM as 'blocked by compliance' in the retro
Pro-regulation until Grok-3 hits GPU walls: priorities realign faster than unpruned weights
Be honest: Grok3 isn’t late because of “strategy” - it’s late because the eval suite won’t hit reproducibility and procurement can’t outbid aerospace for GPUs
how does one start supporting musk Comment deleted
Fanboy of Musk? Oh boy... Comment deleted
Oh, so how can we help you, ork russian programmer? Will you cry when we give you a star? Comment deleted
AI development is dangerous and should be stopped. Change my mind. Comment deleted
What's gonna happen Comment deleted
Humans will be extinct Comment deleted
How so Comment deleted
Oh cool, and any disadvantages? Comment deleted
Elon is a clown but its fun to watch Comment deleted
He is almost as biased as MrBeast to his own products Comment deleted
My phone is running on prayers rn Comment deleted
As long as pegasus is installed it will keep spying even with no battery. Electricity is only necessary if you believe in it Comment deleted
Special agents can call turned-off phones, did you know? 🤪 Comment deleted
Mediatek cpus use rtc to wake up and boot at predefined times and apple have a firmware specifically made for "find my" that can do the same. As for wether or not you can receive calls or not, a kinda famous guy already talked about how the modem is completely independent from the phone's SoC and it can at least ring received calls and infact if the OS crashes the modem will still ring for the caller. So I guess this int that far off from the truth Comment deleted
Of course, that's feasible with deliberate implementation (depending on what do you agree to still qualify as an "off" state), but totally defeats the purpose of energy conservation. Comment deleted
If you can totally shut down the phone and just wale it with some light weight firmware every few dozen minutes its not gonna degrade batter that much. And even my samsung smartwatch has a "super energy saver mode" which turns the watch off sets boot order to be a different piece of code and the whole "firmware's" goal is to wake the screen, render the time read from rtc using 1 single possible fontface (which I believe are hardcoded bitmaps), set an interrupt for 3 seconds, on that interrupt cut the power. In fact it cuts the power so recklessly that it shows oled artifacts because it doesn’t clean the front buffer and "backlight" or screen_en before powering down. Thats what I call purpose built firmware. It does 1 thing as straightforward as possible and priority is to do it woth as little power as possible. Comment deleted
Qualcomm has a similar function, and Pixel phones do too Comment deleted
I dont doubt it, I just didn't claim as i have no clue if it does or not Comment deleted
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My bigger point was that extra CPU usage will probably actually end up being used by the modem itself. Depending on the modem, a lot of packet/network processing is offloaded to the on-modem arm processor Comment deleted
The modem only does basic packet wrapping/unwrapping and real time responses to triggers sent by the network to keep connected. Nothing else. That CPU and nand bottleneck IS the main "CPU" in the SoC which does lots of stuff in the kernel and depending on the receiving app does all kind of other stuff. Like extraction and talling the kernel to write to disk/nand. That's literally why on a low end device (compared to desktops) you are CPU and nand bottlenecked. Especially if you phone has no active cooling which I can guarantee unless its an asus phone it doesn’t. The modem's "CPU" doesn’t matter. It can be low end as hell. It only needs to be able to respond real time to the cellular network and transfer chunks as is to RAM on request by the SoC's CPU. Which wraps everything into a whole OS and user mode isolation and then deals with the uncompression and content of the data. I think you get the point. Your CPU is the bottleneck. Not the modem. The modem has the task to sustain connection and pass data to your apps. Claiming it offloads thing to the main CPU is bogus. It's like saying I offload my tax invoce by making the mailman write it for me. That was never their task. Comment deleted
I'm not sure what the application co processor is called that for then Comment deleted
You what? Jeeesus Comment deleted
I mean you do you, but yeah, Musk is a total cringe nowadays but it was a cool comedy movie back in 90s 🗿 Comment deleted