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by rlt 4y ago
> a bored billionaire who ran out of ideas to impress the news. Uh no, this has been one of his passions for a very long time. It’s the reason SpaceX exists: “Elon Musk, who founded SpaceX, first presented his goal of enabling Mars colon
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by rlt 4y ago
Seriously? The robot dancing was an obvious joke. He was not trying to pass it off as a real robot and literally no one thought he was. Tesla is actually working on the real thing and they’ve demoed admirable progress 1 year after the init
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by rlt 4y ago
> If NASA is Amtrak in space, then SpaceX is the Fyre Festival with rockets > the hypertunnel that is just a regular tunnel, the door panels that fall off the self-driving car, the robot that’s only a guy in a suit This was an otherwi
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by rlt 4y ago
Yeah no, you don't get to dismiss half the population as "fascist".
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by rlt 4y ago
> that these things would exist even without them Would these things eventually have been invented / brought to market by someone else? Probably. Infinite monkeys etc.
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by rlt 4y ago
> This super-villain narrative of Musk is hilariously comical. Where is it coming from? That's easy: people who disagree with his recent political shift. It's extremely obvious, because I see it primarily among the progressives
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by rlt 4y ago
This is such a tired take. Strong leaders are able to marshal engineers to build things like the iPhone, electric cars, reusable rockets. Both Steve Jobs and Elon Musk excelled at this, and just because they're not doing the low level
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by rlt 4y ago
This seems like the biggest limitation of a PDF approach. I’d want bidirectional sync to the calendar I can view across the rest of my devices. Ditto with other types of notes.
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by rlt 4y ago
I don’t understand why Tesla needs to rush deliveries at the end of every quarter/year. If they need to provide incentives to meet the expectations they’ve set then the market should realize that and price it in, exactly like this, so
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by rlt 4y ago
Between the COVID learning gap and this transitory period when education has to adapt to AI cheating, there's going to be a few rough years of kids falling behind.
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by rlt 4y ago
Sorry, when has he been transphobic? He’s expressed a dislike for pronouns, but no actual transphobia that I’ve seen.
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by rlt 4y ago
Incredibly shortsighted and disappointing, and I say that as someone who respects Elon and had hope for what he’d do with Twitter. Any and all credibility to his “free speech” mission has evaporated. The only way I could possibly steel man
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by rlt 4y ago
> Based on the emails he posts, the agencies give links to review based on tips they receive or their own intel and twitter then decides if it violates ToS or not (and they sometimes did not act or simply temporarily suspended). But it&#
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by rlt 4y ago
> There are a large number of people who would never want to have a private conversation or meeting using Facebook infrastructure or be forced to create a Facebook account to join a meeting. A large number of people in your circle /
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by rlt 4y ago
It’s possible for him to personally be right-leaning and also fairly enforce apolitical rules on his platform, it just doesn’t seem like he’s doing it.
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by rlt 4y ago
I’ve been trying to give him the benefit of the doubt because I do believe free speech, even on commercial platforms, is an ideal worth upholding, but he’s making it really hard with actions like this. He says he wants Twitter to appeal to
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by rlt 4y ago
I was just thinking about how decentralization is important for building robust systems, but it’s not simply decentralization, also the ability for the nodes to operate isolated from each other. The grid is “decentralized” but still brittle
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by rlt 4y ago
This is what the downvote button is for.
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by rlt 4y ago
> with a bit more lawmaking No thanks. Things like this almost always have unintended consequences.
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by rlt 4y ago
Computers can reason and do symbolic manipulation too (e.x. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_algebra ). There’s no reason to believe AGI will be composed of only language models. I suspect it will be a combinat
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by rlt 4y ago
So tedious, but I guess I can’t blame them in this age of hot takes and cancel culture.
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by rlt 4y ago
This is a totally uninformed/naïve/layman’s take, but what if AGI is just a really good language model used in a clever way such that it can perform an efficient search of its “thought” space, validating its thoughts are correct a
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by rlt 4y ago
Kessler Syndrome notwithstanding.
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Starshield: Secured satellite network for government entities(spacex.com)
116 points by rlt 4y ago|149 comments
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by rlt 4y ago
> It is of note that the government chose to use Elon Musk's Starlink service for these trials rather than OneWeb, a rival satellite company which it has partly owns since the administration splashed out $500 million to save it from
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by rlt 4y ago
I don't think they were suggesting that. More something along the lines of "you're likely to be killing animals either way, so just accept that nature is cruel and don't feel guilty about it". There's a wide sp
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by rlt 4y ago
I think the concern is they could be using it for surveillance of sensitive nearby targets leading up to such an escalation.
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by rlt 4y ago
> It's possible these companies are doing nefarious things. In which case create a country-agnostic legal framework and take them to court and prove your case. If it's all super-secret-spy-stuff then just do the damn parallel c
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by rlt 4y ago
The real world isn’t a safe space, we don’t need to modify our language like this to avoid triggering momentary negative thoughts.
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by rlt 4y ago
And it has worked out pretty well for him and his companies, and I’d argue the employees as well, who know of this reputation, willingly sign up for it, and have been rewarded with lucrative stock. It remains to be seen if that can continue

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