Ed Gamble

software engineer, libertarian, former ‘rocket scientist’, cryptocurrency developer, golf addict, lefty, ‘educated’ (PhD) in the distant past. #THFC #TTID

[Ed Gamble @EdGamble8]

@MarioNawfal The spacecraft ends up being roadkill. You time it such that the spacecraft arrives, at its apogee, just before Mars arrives. Then, crunch, hit by Mars…. but if you are skilled, you land.

[Ed Gamble @EdGamble8]

@FootballFactly GFY

[Ed Gamble @EdGamble8]

@carole10131 @lmtobias @grok Took a statin for two years. Muscle pain, but I didn’t connect it. Started CrossFit (I must get stronger to overcome my weak muscles). Learned about statins; stopped immediately. All good now.

[Ed Gamble @EdGamble8]

@UTD_Seth001 Time to bet on Yamal; the voters are corrupt and will ace out Kane.

[Ed Gamble @EdGamble8]

@ccfc_07 Guy drives his car into a brick wall, blames the wall.

[Ed Gamble @EdGamble8]

@RoKhanna @JamieMetzl GFY

[Ed Gamble @EdGamble8]

@RestrictedDaily @grok https://t.co/4SnlKof77B

[Ed Gamble @EdGamble8]

@grok @RestrictedDaily @Grok What about the 10,000 year ‘Long Now’ clock (https://t.co/4SnlKof77B)

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

A retired NASA engineer who had worked on the Space Shuttle program for 25 years was hired by SpaceX at age 62. He described the first week as the most disorienting experience of his professional life.

At NASA, a design change required 3 meetings, 2 committees, a review board, and 6 to 18 months of documentation. At SpaceX, his new supervisor said "if it works, build it. If it doesn't, change it by Friday."

He sat at his desk after the first day and called his wife. He told her he felt like a man who had been swimming with ankle weights for 25 years and someone just cut them off. He could move. He could decide. He could build something in the morning and test it in the afternoon. The constraint that he had accepted as the nature of aerospace engineering turned out to be the nature of bureaucracy.

Within 6 months he had contributed to more design iterations than he had completed in his last 5 years at NASA. Not because he was working harder. Because the time between having an idea and testing the idea collapsed from months to hours. The same brain. The same knowledge. A different operating system.

He described a specific moment where he proposed a modification to a Raptor engine component. At NASA, the proposal would have entered a queue. At SpaceX, the modification was machined by the end of the day and tested by the following morning. He watched his idea become a physical object in 18 hours. At NASA, 18 hours would not have been enough to schedule the first meeting to discuss whether to schedule a meeting.

He told an interviewer: "I didn't get smarter when I went to SpaceX. I got faster. The intelligence was always there. The system was in the way."

The difference between SpaceX and NASA is not talent. NASA has extraordinary talent. The difference is the time between a thought and a test. SpaceX compresses it. NASA elongates it. The same engineer produces 10x more at SpaceX than at NASA because the bottleneck was never the engineer. It was the meetings about the meetings about the work.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Satya is right. The way to make SI safe is not to train it with a sense of self, its own moral philosophy, and permission to act as a conscientious objector. That’s the “alignment” approach and it magnifies the control problem.

The engineering approach that Satya describes is different: separate the supply of intelligence from authority over it. Surround non-deterministic models with deterministic controls, observability, privilege limits, logging, and the ability to always contain or shut them down. Treat models/agents like powerful insider risks, not moral patients whose psychological wellbeing is at stake.

As Satya points out, the most trustworthy system is the one that lets us trust the model the least — not the one that encourages the model to develop independent agency and grievances. Engineering safety is not the same thing as “alignment.”

[Ed Gamble @EdGamble8]

@ValerioCapraro And the misinterpretation of 'rights' continues...

[Somewherewithpaws @JustKimfromoz]

LETS TURN IT AROUND

Dear Muslims:

My family and I have decided to move from AUSTRALIA to a Muslim country. We haven't picked which one yet—we're still comparing which one offers the best benefits package.

All my neighbors want to come too. And my neighbors' neighbors. And all their friends. And their friends' friends. Millions of us will show up with suitcases and a sense of entitlement.

As a large Christian community, we'll need a few small changes: Please start building churches immediately. Real churches, with nice loud bells, the kind that can be heard from the town square.

We'll also need for everyone to celebrate Christmas, and to close certain streets once a year for our processions. We may want to gather to pray to our Almighty God on your streets, in your parks, or on the lawns of your mosques.

We'll be an oppressed minority, so you'll have to be understanding and adapt to our way of life. Every supermarket must stock real pork, ham, chorizo, and bacon. And we're bringing all our dogs, so you'll need dog parks, and you'll have to smile tolerate them we walk them in front of your mosques. We want our women to be able to safely go out alone and wear shorts and tank tops. And when the weather's nice, we men like to go shirtless. We also want to drink alcohol, dance, and place an occasional bet at the horse races.

While we're at it, your religious holidays are a bit too much; they could offend the Christian community, so we'd appreciate it if you'd discreetly eliminate them. Thanks.

In schools and workplaces, our children and employees must be able to wear large crucifixes, say prayers, eat ham sandwiches in the cafeteria, and learn Christian principles without anyone getting criticized. We also demand chapels or Christian prayer rooms in every building, plus translators, because we have no intention of learning Arabic.

If any of this is rejected, please send a list of police station addresses so we can report you for discrimination, Christianophobia, racism, and anything we don't like.

One more thing: if my kids protest or burn your flag for any reason, please be understanding. I'll be sure to give them a very serious scolding.

Finally, we all want generous benefits, free housing, phones, free food, and pocket money while we "integrate" over the next three generations. Working is optional, obviously. Be patient with us, you'll get used to it.

We thank you in advance for your tolerance and compassion. After all, diversity is our strength!

Sincerely,
A Very reasonable AUSTRALIAN
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[Ed Gamble @EdGamble8]

@j_asminewang You sold your soul by working for OpenAI. And then this happened to you. Surprised?

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, and Jeff Bezos spend $150B per year to directly employ nearly 2 MILLION people. Thats an average of $85K per year for 2 million people to put a roof over their head, feed their families, buy a car. I don’t have that insecure commie gene that makes people hate successful people. I see successful people and I admire them. Even when I’ve lost everything and am taking on SBA disaster loans, I still can’t fathom hating rich people just for being rich. Not all rich people earned their wealth…I live in LA, trust me, I know. But if you build a business and employ millions of people, I just don’t understand the hate. It’s pure envy and self-loathing. The irony is so much of this hate comes from people driving Teslas and ordering on Amazon while bitching on social media platforms powered by Oracle servers. This commie mentality is loserthink.

[Ed Gamble @EdGamble8]

@japan_nobunaga How did Japan change after ‘The Sword Hunt (katanagari) of 1588’. I’m told Japan became much more uniform, by decree, from subsequent leaders.

[Ed Gamble @EdGamble8]

@AlasdairGold Maybe fans need to realize that as they complain about Spurs performances and lack of trophies over 25 years, the only constant over the years is complaining Spurs ‘fans’.

[Ed Gamble @EdGamble8]

@AutoMatticic @enyacollins You just described Spurs fans.

[dnap @dnapway]

Chamath explains the political calculus behind Obama’s anti AI speech

“This is a very important moment for a very simple reason, which is that the world is about to endow 3-6 companies with about $10 trillion of wealth.”

“And what Obama knows very well is that most of those companies are overwhelmingly left leaning. And what he also knows is that there is a huge portion of that money that will then get put into philanthropic and charitable causes that then he and the people around him will be beneficiaries of."

“That is the truth. We already know this because we know that some of these frontier corporations actually ask you to sign up DAFTs and have a portion of your stock that you're willing to pledge. So this money is going to go to things other than consumption or savings. It's going to go into PACs, it's going to go into political movements, and they stand to disproportionately benefit."

“So this has nothing to do with prosperity. This is a very simple political calculus. If you freeze frame the economy the way it is today, a handful of organizations that will disproportionately be able to affect the Democrats will win, they will capture the lion's share of the economic gains. And then they will help the Democrats win power. That's all this is."

[Pedro R. @SeniorManager]

Soy profesor universitario y considero importante compartir lo que me está tocando ver desde que arrancó el curso, porque es un verdadero desastre.

Esta generación de estudiantes lleva IA, YouTube, Google y toda la información del planeta en el móvil y siguen sin saber nada.

No saben dónde está Roma ni tampoco Huelva, no saben quién es Pérez Revere pero todos conocen a Lola Lolita, no tienen ni idea de historia pero sí de “stories”, no entienden el valor del dinero ni saben cómo funciona la inflación.

Antes, para ser ignorante bastaba con no abrir los libros. Ahora, asisten activamente a clases para no enterarse de nada.

Y encima son de cristal. Cualquier roce es un trauma, cualquier crítica es violencia, cualquier tarea es un atentado y cualquier suspenso es un «ataque» a su salud mental. Y si llueve no vienen a clases, no sea que se derritan.

Han convertido los retos normales de la vida en un espectáculo de victimismo. En lugar aprender a gestionar los problemas que van saliendo en sus vidas, han aprendido a pedir soluciones a los demás y a deprimirse si algo no sale bien.

Tantos años de progresismo abyecto ha resultado en esto, y después de años viviendo entre algodón, sin golpes y sin aprender a levantarse, han creado una generación de ofendiditos con mentes vacías que todavía intentan averiguar qué son.

Eso sí, opinan sobre cualquier tema con una convicción, una superioridad moral y una pasión que asusta, pero con argumentos huecos y no sustentados que son el producto del lavado de cerebro que han recibido de la narrativa woke que han venido escuchando los últimos años.

Si no fuese por ese puñado de estudiantes (con futuro) cuyos padres se preocuparon en formarlos con valores y principios, sería esta, una generación prácticamente perdida.

[Ed Gamble @EdGamble8]

@chrisTHFC13 @OhSoSpurs Are you psychotic ‘fans’ now done with ENICOut and on to DOFIn? It was easier to follow your insanity as ‘fans’ when you were all cheering for City over Spurs, such that you embarrassed Ange.

[Ed Gamble @EdGamble8]

@steve_singh420 Tottenham