mutable.bsky.social
On this site, I would like to be a bit taller.
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This seems so meta and clever that it almost makes me forget you’re profiting off the material this guy published.
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Mike Johnson to be ousted in favor of a high-functioning bundle of flat-leafed parsley.
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“Kevin McCarthy, but not such a brainiac” is really something to aspire to.
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It must mean something that each republican speaker has had to be stupider than the last in order to be elected to the position.
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I know exactly what this scene is even though I haven’t seen them movie in like ten years. it’s incredible.
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I've thought about this for a while and I'm at a kind of impasse because it seems to me that the two most important things are predictability -- can you anticipate what the other vehicle will do? -- and responsibility -- the ability to assess and assign blame, and accept consequences.
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I am aware that Tesla doesn't use LIDAR, which increasingly looks like actionable negligence. Good on Waymo for its caution. But operating cars in an environment that mixes other humans -- driving, walking, riding bikes, whatever -- is an irreducibly human responsibility, and always will be.
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not immediately, but we have a ton of experience teaching humans to drive and new drivers make predictable mistakes. you won’t run over someone at freeway speeds because they’re wearing a pavement colored suit and continue on until some part of their body obscures your video inputs.
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Even assuming the machine could be gotten to the point of having fewer accidents than a typical human - those fewer accidents will be completely avoidable and horrific by human standards. It will never be a good time to take your hands off the wheel.
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surely there’s someone at newsmax who can explain the difference between pedophilia and the adolescent thing.
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it’s almost as if he has an impulse control problem brought on by years of self medicating the depressive episodes of bipolar disorder with everything from stimulants to horse tranquilizer.
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Why is “with the help of AI” necessary in this plan?
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the netting is a lot better than it used to be fwiw.
Because of all the people getting hit.
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to the extent that people follow the advice to avoid using them, it does become an indicator of LLM sourcing. unfortunately the only way to resist that is to go all in on them.
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Isaacman contributed $2 million to his inaugural committee, I assume more or less specifically for this appointment. I am really curious about what happens with that, because money is still money.
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He also gave $2 million to Trump’s inaugural committee. You really have to wonder about him taking that money and then reneging on the nomination.
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Didn’t even catch that. Even Texas isn’t going to let them launch that many rockets of that size.
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If he wanted to send 2000 ships even as far as the Moon, he would have to launch at least 10000 ships, perfectly, to supply them with fuel. So that would be 13 flights per day, every day, for two years. Assuming no boil off in orbit. So I’m skeptical.
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just going to keep liking these.
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Not an argument exactly but this is me zooming along to the last possible convergence point of every zipper merge I encounter.
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Isn’t the stamp Austrian though?
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I noticed that in the UK the automated systems can ticket you for exceeding the current average speed by some percentage. I liked that approach.
On the other hand is it correct that you got a ticket for going 81 mph in a labeled work zone? Because maybe you should pay that fine and slow down.
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given that there’s no abort system it’s just really hard to see a path to putting humans on this. The space shuttle flew successfully 24 times before the Challenger failure, then like *85* more times before Columbia disaster, and it was still ultimately far too dangerous to keep flying.
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which lucky country gets showered with debris?
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You’re no more likely see these things assembling teslas than you are to see EM riding to space in a Starship.
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Old enough to remember when we were all supposed to be free to “do our own research” and make our own decisions.
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I never wanted any kind of IoT thing like a refrigerator that could tell me I was out of milk; also never any kind of smart TV - both of those things seem like not much value in exchange for a ton of personal info.
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lol
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wait until they expand SCOTUS to 13 during the next lame duck session of an outgoing majority.
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did anyone think to ask her this during her confirmation hearings forur months ago?
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Turns out Sandor Clegane had the last word on the naming of swords.
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I thought Roomba behavior was based on minesweeping algorithms.
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The Man Who Wasn’t There
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We were all in that category at one point or another.
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they used all their units correctly in context, and they units are easily relatable in context. the article is clear and the relationships are ok; much more so than in your example, the word for which I put in quotes because that was your word, not mine, for the unhelpful analogy nobody asked for.
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aren’t kilowatt hours and terawatt years the same measurement, just at different scales? they seem to have used both for a perfectly good reason: to scale up from energy per ton of CO2 to energy needed to match Iceland’s carbon footprint. Sorry but it’s much clearer than your “translation.”
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I am kind of mad and jealous that an Icelandic news story is the clearest, most BS-free explanation of the impossibility of this setup.
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Yes people aren’t assault weapons or corporate PACs so there’s clearly some wiggle room in how their rights are defined.
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Glassworks
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I distinctly remember you asking people not to be weird about this and some of the people replying here are definitely going with the other option.