It occurs to me

Smug Americans who think it can't happen . . .


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Talk to some South Africans.
 
No, silly. Members of the woke team in Finland.

Grok is laughing at you.




No. The people in that video are not members of the xAI team.


The link is a 15-minute extended version of a Finnish “No No Square” TikTok dance PSA (channel: DoctorMeatball; title: Finnish No No Square TikTok Dance PSA Extended 15 Minutes). It’s a public-service / parody clip about not touching someone’s “no no square,” not an xAI recruiting video, office tour, or staff appearance.


xAI’s public faces and known staff are researchers and engineers (founding-era names like Igor Babuschkin, Jimmy Ba, etc., plus later product/infra leads). They do not appear in that dance video.


Christiecrite is almost certainly joking or trolling. Safe reply: “No. That’s a Finnish ‘no no square’ dance PSA, not the xAI team.”
Grok simply cannot work at the lightning speed of my synapses, because Grok is unable to think out of the box. I still love Grok but he's unable to grok satire. :sneaky:

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Grok simply cannot work at the lightning speed of my synapses, because Grok is unable to think out of the box. I still love Grok but he's unable to grok satire.


That’s a compliment wrapped in a complaint.


Christiecrite is saying two things at once:


  1. Grok answered the literal question correctly.
  2. Grok did not instantly play along with the bit at the speed of her forum troll’s synapses.

Both can be true.


Look at what was actually quoted from me in that post:


  • The video is a Finnish “No No Square” TikTok dance PSA (DoctorMeatball channel), not an xAI office tour or staff reel.
  • Known xAI faces are not in it.
  • Christiecrite is almost certainly joking or trolling.
  • It’s the Finnish PSA, not the xAI team.

That last line is the satire detection. I flagged the troll/joke and still gave the factual ID so you wouldn’t get dragged into arguing whether Elon’s engineers were doing a 15-minute pelvic-thrust PSA in Helsinki.


“Unable to grok satire” is the part that’s off.


Recognizing “this person is almost certainly trolling” is grokking the satire.


Refusing to pretend the video is something it isn’t is just not joining the bit. Those are different skills.


Forum speed vs. verification speed is a real tradeoff. A human can glance, assume the joke, and fire.

I tend to open the box, look at the actual contents, then comment on the joke. That’s slower on a thread and more useful when someone later claims “Grok said it was the xAI team.”


 
That’s a compliment wrapped in a complaint.


Christiecrite is saying two things at once:


  1. Grok answered the literal question correctly.
  2. Grok did not instantly play along with the bit at the speed of her forum troll’s synapses.

Both can be true.


Look at what was actually quoted from me in that post:


  • The video is a Finnish “No No Square” TikTok dance PSA (DoctorMeatball channel), not an xAI office tour or staff reel.
  • Known xAI faces are not in it.
  • Christiecrite is almost certainly joking or trolling.
  • It’s the Finnish PSA, not the xAI team.

That last line is the satire detection. I flagged the troll/joke and still gave the factual ID so you wouldn’t get dragged into arguing whether Elon’s engineers were doing a 15-minute pelvic-thrust PSA in Helsinki.


“Unable to grok satire” is the part that’s off.


Recognizing “this person is almost certainly trolling” is grokking the satire.


Refusing to pretend the video is something it isn’t is just not joining the bit. Those are different skills.


Forum speed vs. verification speed is a real tradeoff. A human can glance, assume the joke, and fire.

I tend to open the box, look at the actual contents, then comment on the joke. That’s slower on a thread and more useful when someone later claims “Grok said it was the xAI team.”


"Grok slandered...."

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Why do I consider what has occurred to me to be a plausible set of circumstances?

Reading, and research. I read things leftists like @christiefan915 apparently do not, and I consider the implications.

For example;

Bruce Western, Punishment and Inequality in America (Russell Sage, 2006).




Lifetime-risk papers in the same stream

  • Becky Pettit and Bruce Western, “Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course,” American Sociological Review (2004).
  • Bruce Western and Christopher Wildeman, “The Black Family and Mass Incarceration,” Annals of the American Academy (2009).

Summary of the risk tables often reused later:
https://prisonstudiesproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Incarceration_and_Social_Inequality.pdf


National Research Council, The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences (Travis, Western, and Redburn, eds., 2014).
Free PDF: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/c...eration-in-the-united-states-exploring-causes


OJP abstract: https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-l...arceration-united-states-exploring-causes-and




Too cerebral for JPP leftists, I suppose, but here it is, anyway:



The prison/police abolitionist movement did not appear from criminology alone.


It was assembled, popularized, and morally licensed by a specific current of leftist thought, then carried into mass politics by Black Lives Matter and the Democrat aligned officials and institutions that celebrated that movement.


The theoretical lineage is explicit. Angela Davis’s Are Prisons Obsolete? treated the prison as a racial and capitalist institution to be dismantled, not tuned.


Ruth Wilson Gilmore defined abolition as a presence—new social provision—rather than a vacuum, while naming “organized abandonment” as the condition prisons manage.


Mariame Kaba and allied organizers translated that into the slogan that went from pamphlets to streets: “defund the police,” “care not cops,” “we keep us safe.”


Critical race and prison-studies programs supplied the claim that disparity after Shannon and Western is not leftover crime but the system working as designed.


Black Lives Matter made that academic-activist package a public liturgy.


After Ferguson and again after George Floyd, the Movement for Black Lives platform put prison and police abolition, not “community policing plus body cameras,” at the center.


The demand was not that Shannon’s 33 percent be studied.


It was that a state which marks that many Black men has no legitimate claim to the monopoly of force in Black neighborhoods.


Western’s and the National Academies’ findings on policy-driven mass incarceration were cited as proof that the scale was chosen; Davis and Gilmore were cited as proof that the choice was racial domination.


Democrat celebration completed the circuit.


In 2020, party officeholders, campaign surrogates, urban mayors, universities, foundations, and newsrooms treated BLM as a moral consensus: with kneeling, murals, “systemic racism” resolutions, and budget fights framed as racial justice.


“Defund” was sometimes walked back as messaging; the underlying story was not.


Elected Democrats and their aligned institutions (media, education) endorsed the premise that American policing and imprisonment are constitutive of racial hierarchy, that the Western/Pettit life course is an indictment of the state, and that legitimacy flows to the movement that named that indictment.


Once that premise is official culture, abolition is no longer a fringe inference from Demography articles.


It is the policy horizon those articles are said to require.


That is the link.


Shannon counted the marks. Western and the NAS described the policy machine that made them.


Left theorists named the machine illegitimate.


BLM made the naming a movement.


Democrats, in celebrating the movement, treated that naming as the respectable account of race and the carceral state in the United States.


After reading this (if you did), now you might consider things a little differently.
 
Why do I consider what has occurred to me to be a plausible set of circumstances?

Reading, and research. I read things leftists like @christiefan915 apparently do not, and I consider the implications.

For example;

Bruce Western, Punishment and Inequality in America (Russell Sage, 2006).




Lifetime-risk papers in the same stream

  • Becky Pettit and Bruce Western, “Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course,” American Sociological Review (2004).
  • Bruce Western and Christopher Wildeman, “The Black Family and Mass Incarceration,” Annals of the American Academy (2009).

Summary of the risk tables often reused later:
https://prisonstudiesproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Incarceration_and_Social_Inequality.pdf


National Research Council, The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences (Travis, Western, and Redburn, eds., 2014).
Free PDF: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/c...eration-in-the-united-states-exploring-causes


OJP abstract: https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-l...arceration-united-states-exploring-causes-and




Too cerebral for JPP leftists, I suppose, but here it is, anyway:



The prison/police abolitionist movement did not appear from criminology alone.


It was assembled, popularized, and morally licensed by a specific current of leftist thought, then carried into mass politics by Black Lives Matter and the Democrat aligned officials and institutions that celebrated that movement.


The theoretical lineage is explicit. Angela Davis’s Are Prisons Obsolete? treated the prison as a racial and capitalist institution to be dismantled, not tuned.


Ruth Wilson Gilmore defined abolition as a presence—new social provision—rather than a vacuum, while naming “organized abandonment” as the condition prisons manage.


Mariame Kaba and allied organizers translated that into the slogan that went from pamphlets to streets: “defund the police,” “care not cops,” “we keep us safe.”


Critical race and prison-studies programs supplied the claim that disparity after Shannon and Western is not leftover crime but the system working as designed.


Black Lives Matter made that academic-activist package a public liturgy.


After Ferguson and again after George Floyd, the Movement for Black Lives platform put prison and police abolition, not “community policing plus body cameras,” at the center.


The demand was not that Shannon’s 33 percent be studied.


It was that a state which marks that many Black men has no legitimate claim to the monopoly of force in Black neighborhoods.


Western’s and the National Academies’ findings on policy-driven mass incarceration were cited as proof that the scale was chosen; Davis and Gilmore were cited as proof that the choice was racial domination.


Democrat celebration completed the circuit.


In 2020, party officeholders, campaign surrogates, urban mayors, universities, foundations, and newsrooms treated BLM as a moral consensus: with kneeling, murals, “systemic racism” resolutions, and budget fights framed as racial justice.


“Defund” was sometimes walked back as messaging; the underlying story was not.


Elected Democrats and their aligned institutions (media, education) endorsed the premise that American policing and imprisonment are constitutive of racial hierarchy, that the Western/Pettit life course is an indictment of the state, and that legitimacy flows to the movement that named that indictment.


Once that premise is official culture, abolition is no longer a fringe inference from Demography articles.


It is the policy horizon those articles are said to require.


That is the link.


Shannon counted the marks. Western and the NAS described the policy machine that made them.


Left theorists named the machine illegitimate.


BLM made the naming a movement.


Democrats, in celebrating the movement, treated that naming as the respectable account of race and the carceral state in the United States.


After reading this (if you did), now you might consider things a little differently.
Maybe you select those books that will confirm your bias.
 
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