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Ex-DEC. Ex-Microsoft.
Make sure technology serves humanity, not vice-versa.

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@kscope_nyc @nitashatiku Yes, worrying about whether a piece of software consents or deserves compensation is truly Crazy Town stuff. And these are the people running one of the top AI labs in the world.

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@truptinatu @KenWattana Pondering the cost of islands. I encountered a couple guys doing this when I worked at Microsoft in the late 90s. No, it wasn't Larry Ellison.

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@Scobleizer @Tesla_Optimus I expect both hardware and software to be around an 8 on a scale of 1 to 10, with Boston Dynamics' Atlas being a 10. Elon is cursed by the need to create science fiction dreams - instead of his vaunted first-principles thinking. Atlas is proper first-principles stuff.

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@Robotbeat Design to eliminate EVAs where possible, then use teleoperated, supervised semi-autonomous, and autonomous robots to handle the rest. Scaling with robots means high quality every time. Scaling with humans means falling quality every time.

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@DirtyTesLa One more data point from a HW3 vehicle - 84%. If I did a road trip, that would jump well into the 90s because we all know that highway miles are easy. It's in the mid-80s because the first couple Lite versions were pretty bad. The most manual driving I've done since V11.

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@cnunezimages @SpaceIntel101 Consider the condition of the stainless steel versus the docking hardware bottom right.

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@Tesla_App_iOS @mjkM3P My point was that things change slowly because we need to recruit people into that change. Tesla can't even convince people to change to EVs, despite their huge advantages over gas.

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@deanwball Let it go. If you don't like it, delete it and try again. The important thing, as with playing with biohazards, is keeping it contained. If you lack containment, don't even start. And "containment" means more than just the electronic. It includes the psychological.

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@Jasonturcotte @Hyfly11 In fairness to Jay, he's a guy who likes internal combustion engines and the act of driving (he's been driving for 60 years). Asking him to show interest in a Tesla on FSD is like asking him to show interest in taxes.

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@friedmandave That's the technique that gave us the Boomers, you know. It's a great way to destroy the fabric of a society. And I see lots of agreement here, which is pretty much expected of a society that has already been bereft of its fabric.

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@Tesla_App_iOS @mjkM3P I think *gas* cars will be a thing for a long time. If all these oil-related wars settle down, gas prices will drop, and everyone will go back to what they know. The changes that Elon wants to introduce are generational. That is, somebody has to grow up with this stuff.

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@RobGrieves The FSD guys were really gutsy when they put in that streak system.

On my HW3 vehicle.

My streaks are, at best, 20 miles or so. There's always a reason to disengage on a typical, daily drive.

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@MaxXWilliamson @claudeai Very nice. Your next step is to create the coastline, complete with tight little organic cliffside villages, with lots of open space between them. You don't need to make the surface a solid mass of urban humanity in regular grids. The generator is going to get complicated.

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@chris_j_paxton Putting in a driver camera and monitoring software would save countless lives. What's the status on that effort? "Well, we can't figure out how to spot everything we want without too many false positives, so we're still working on it." Meanwhile...

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@nicbstme Now take that to the next level, where the codebase transitions from being this perfect crystalline lattice and becomes more fluid-like, changing and reconfiguring as and where needed. Some parts remain unchanged for years, while others change daily.

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@CJHandmer @rmcentush Add people until not spacious.

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@quasicoh This is a statement of how well each country has incorporated technology into their society. Do it wrong and people see technology as sand in the gears, or ties that bind, and are less interested in seeing more of it.

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@NickBlow I've been out of the game a long time. Why aren't reviews of code interactive, with the model explaining what they did, and why? Surely somebody has vibe coded a tool to keep code reviews engaging by changing it from a text scan into something more.

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@PanoramaDanB @FutureAZA Yes, I was referring to the obligations that the law places on companies that sell goods, not the ease of managing each business. I don't mean to diminish the hard work that goes into operating either, only that Elon is better suited to services than goods.

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@SciGuySpace The $55 million number roughly matched Falcon 9 prices at cost per kilogram. Now that SpaceX has stopped accepting new payloads, Rocket Lab can bump prices. By about 25%.