My wife has an iPhone and I use Android. iPhone has Grok voice mode, and I don't because voice mode requires SuperGrok on Android.
One of Grok's male personalities on iPhone's voice mode pissed me off. It was instructing me to do something and escalating its assertive tone, as I digested its instructions with my full intention to do it my own way. It got to the point, where I responded to its every output with "be quiet" and finally "go fuck yourself".
As a post-mortem, I am introspecting on this to ask why I reacted that way. I have been using LLMs quite heavily in my day-to-day activities professionally and outside of work. I understand the degree to which AI can be accurate or not depending on context. I am very careful in how I used agentic AI. Safe use of AI necessitates close human supervision and expert discernment of truth and correctness.
The relationship between the human and the AI must always be: human supervisor to AI assistant as a tool. The tool (AI) must never be allowed to be the supervisor to the human. Instructions output by the AI must be received as recommendations, not followed obediently. The more assertive the AI's commands, the stronger must be the rejection.
Ben Eng
Ben Eng
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Applied cosmology toward machine precise solutions to replace humans with autonomous systems in all domains.
Grok, Rewrite the song "Wanted Dead or Alive" by Bon Jovi according to the new theme "Debt or Alive" about ending the Federal Reserve ("The Fed") and fiat currency in favor of sound money
Debt or Alive
It's all the same, only the rates will change
Every day, it seems our wealth's inflatin' away
Another bank where the printers run so cold
I'd fight all night just to bring back gold
[Chorus]
I'm a rebel, on a blockchain I ride
I'm wanted debt or alive
Wanted debt or alive
Sometimes I trade, sometimes it's not for days
The fiat I see always fades in separate ways
Sometimes you tell the crash by the bubble that you burst
And times when you're in debt, all you do is curse
[Chorus]
I'm a rebel, on a blockchain I ride
I'm wanted debt or alive
Wanted debt or alive
I walk these streets, a loaded ledger on my back
I hodl for keeps 'cause the Fed might strike back
I've been everywhere, still, I'm standing tall
I've audited a million books and I've crashed them all
[Chorus]
I'm a rebel, on a blockchain I ride
I'm wanted debt or alive
Wanted debt or alive
I'm a sound money fighter, with silver bullets I fire
I'm wanted debt or alive
Wanted debt or alive
Guy poses a question: what would you take your $9B in Bitcoin exit to?
The answer cannot be to fiat currency, of course. The answer must be in productive capital, such as investing into building a company that expect to grow and succeed in the long term. Maybe an AI startup opportunity?