Jacob Ward
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1,814 appearances
16 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard Jul 2025
Jacob Ward’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And this, of course, goes along with what Elon Musk has sort of said that he's all about.
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He's a free speech absolutist, he says.
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Now, of course, he's canceling the people that on his platform critique him or that he doesn't agree with politically.
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So, of course, it's not a universal idea.
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But...
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His general sense that we need to be kind of absolutely, you know, as open as we can possibly be does jive with other products he's made, right?
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Like Tesla has a, what's the mode called on a Tesla where, you know, you can turn off all the safety measures and it'll accelerate to this incredible degree and just be, you know, as scary a race car as it can possibly be.
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I mean, this is the guy who has a, you know, a personal flamethrower company.
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He's a, you know, and this is when that company was in California, which was
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you know, is still experiencing record wildfires.
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I always thought that was an incredibly poor taste.
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But this is a guy who likes to push the boundaries of everything.
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And so Grok 3 is that.
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And already we've seen people using Grok 3
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to do things like write blackmail letters, the kinds of letters, you know, that you could write to try to convince somebody that you had dirt on them and they should start, you know, sending you money, you know, or threatening letters that would be super scary to receive and might convince you to send money to somebody.
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You know, it'll impersonate all kinds of, you know, sort of
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I don't even want to say it, but like, you know, it'll do gross, it'll engage in sexual conversation in a way that, you know, you really wouldn't have expected a thing that almost anybody can access would be allowed to do.
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It's all, again, just part of this kind of idea that I'm seeing more and more.
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on the part of technology companies that they don't have to abide by the old rules about this stuff and that the idea that they need to somehow pre-consider the morality of what they have built doesn't apply.
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I was once talking to somebody who made military technology, the kind of technology that could lead to drones that can kill people and all sorts of very sort of scary, lethal weaponry that is automated.
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