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@PhilipDBunn so it can be used to train more AIs?

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@em3dia that's why one-meal-a-day is 3 times more effective in Spain, you skip on 6 meals instead of 2.

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@shreyansj after the second layoff round

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@Cmdr_Hadfield so, you should keep your butt at same proportions while in space. easy to do or a challenge?

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@paulg what is "Radio" ?

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@mrwtffacts he will walk 1000 miles, and he will walk 1000 more. just to be the man who walks a thousand miles.

[Sean @sean_from_earth]

For AI safetyists and those hating on data centers, I hope you spend some time imagining how much worse a world with artificially constrained, very powerful AI would be.

Widespread AI, driven by market forces, is the safest and most aligned path.

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@IntCyberDigest Imagine a very small hole in the tire. Having this kind of air compressor allows you to drive at moderate speed to the next service station instead of failing to change the tire yourself.

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@skdh new job opportunities. Gravity Leak Patcher.

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@BrianRoemmele hopefully hinges are stocked in large quantities in those space colonies.

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@ConsoomerLs are you confident that Starbucks will be hiring barista in the long run? My guess: there will be attractive people to attract customers, all else automated. Maybe the coffeemaking equivalent of "sing along", but that's part of theater major training anyway.

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@BrianRoemmele cURL is not a valid sample for software. It is a positive outlier: vision and long term steering by one guy, extensive test coverage, strict guidelines for changes, code validated in a gazillion of environments. It's like sampling TACP for computer literature.

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@skdh I would really welcome a study camparing the utility of human written social science papers to LLM written social science papers.

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@WallStreetApes So, AI is now on par with well-minded founders of experimental cafes with no business acumen or hospitality experience ?

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@paularambles even if a cure exists, not getting sick is way better. no effective treatment without side effects. Very very rare that side effects are only positive.

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@BenjaminDEKR don't just propose, share the Aliexpress link

[Steve L @cmspet]

@alphafox Isn't it against military rules to take video on board of a naval vessel? I seem to recall a navy man spending time in prison for snapping a few pics from inside of a sub.

I'd hate to see this poor guy get in a bind.

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@JonathonMock @HarryBloke @Rainmaker1973 inside the box shoes, hard hat, pants will not be of much use should the crane fall.

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@TheBest_Viral Replacement of heel is ~12-30 Moneys.
opener is below 1 Money. AND more beer stays in the bottle. Only useful if "licking beer from floor, shoes and tights" is your thing.

[High Signal AI @HighSignal_AI]

Elon Musk on the regulatory absurdity of launching Starship:

Elon explains that before SpaceX could launch Starship, regulators required them to study whether the rocket would hit a shark in the Pacific Ocean.

"It's a big ocean. There's a lot of sharks. It's not impossible, but it's very unlikely."

When SpaceX agreed to do the analysis, they hit a wall. Elon recounts the exchange:

"We said okay fine, we'll do the analysis. And then, well, can you give us the shark data? They're like, no, we can't give you the shark data."

The reasoning behind the refusal left him stunned:

"They were worried about the shark density data, like the people who are hunting sharks for shark fins somehow getting their hands on this shark data… Am I in a comedy sketch here?"

Eventually they got the data, ran the analysis, and confirmed the sharks would be fine. But the saga didn't end there.

"Then we thought, okay now we're done. They said, but what about whales?"

Elon's response captures his disbelief:

"When you look at a picture of the Pacific, what percentage of the surface area of the Pacific do you see as whale? I don't see any. Where's a whale?"

He jokes that if Starship somehow did hit a whale:

"Honestly, that whale had it coming, because the odds are so low. It's like Final Destination: the whale edition. Fate had it in for that whale."

After clearing the whale analysis, regulators raised yet another scenario:

"Well, what if the rocket goes underwater then explodes and then the whales have hearing damage? And we're like, look, if we could make a rocket go underwater and be a submarine, that would be a feat of physics we could not accomplish."

Elon sums up his frustration:

"It's just one crazy thing after another. This is why I'm really feeling the pain of the overregulation."