Quite apart from the blatant corruption, if SpaceX’s biggest problem is that its rockets keep exploding, how is an AI that you have deliberately designed to give wrong answers supposed to fix things?
Thanks to gutting NASA and science budgets, space is another area where the US will soon cede the top spot to China. They have fully developed plans for a lunar base, deep space exploration, and will likely be the next to have humans on the Moon.
BTW - to anyone who tries to argue this isn’t outright corruption, via diverting and siphoning taxpayers money, I have NFTs and memecoins for a bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to interest you in.
SpaceX to invest $2 billion in Musk’s xAI startup, WSJ reports
It is if you don’t get the road you paid for.
At that point the problem then isn’t “SpaceX is investing in Grok AI”, it’s “SpaceX is violating its contract with NASA by not doing the work it’s been paid to do.”
That would indeed be a problem, if true. But it’s a completely different problem.
But it is corruption, especially if there are no consequences for it.
Quite possibly. Not all breaches of contract are a result of corruption, but some could be, sure.
But that’s not my point. My point is that this isn’t relevant to SpaceX investing its money in some other company. It’s SpaceX money, not “government” money. They can waste it on stupid hitlerbots if they want to.
Is it though? I can’t be arsed to look it up right now, but I can’t imagine they’re just being given all that taxpayer money without there being reams of paperwork dictating how they spend it. And if they are, then that’s pretty corrupt as well.
Who am I kidding? Of course I can imagine that with the way things are being run over there these days.
Govt pays baker for a cake. Baker delivers cake. Baker can spend whatever’s left on whatever stupid thing they want.
Space X has been supplying the launches contracted.
I think this claim might apply to Boeing, but SpaceX is very good at actually accomplishing things. There’s a reason it’s the world’s #1 launch provider.
And it’s not even close. They put up more mass to orbit than every other entity combined.