Serve Robotics, which runs most of LA’s sidewalk delivery robots, lost $101.4 million in 2025,
($371,286 annual net loss for every robot it had out making deliveries.)
The first advantage its investor deck lists for the robots is “No driver wages.”
This is a slide from that presentation
2/ TL/DR: We found neural activity across both inferotemporal and prefrontal cortex alternates between a conscious mode and an unconscious mode ~ 15 times every second.
@justalexoki This is my pet schizoid theory. Kind of like how speed and mass are necessarily tied, compression capacity slows time in its vicinity. This is why millennials are ageing weirdly; they absorbed huge levels of background extropy from model training using their data.
I'm doing an esoteric-PDFs meet up in San Francisco on Oct 5th. Bring your printed esoteric PDFs and exchange them for other esoteric PDFs.
Hit me up for details.
@koreindian@IvyAstrix What does “frequently” mean, quantitatively? I haven’t found “frequently” on any standard “words of estimative probability” charts
@koreindian@IvyAstrix vishal, it’s most important to be accurate when there are accusations of misconduct, and you failed to do this by framing imprecision as epistemically untenable
@koreindian@IvyAstrix vishal, it’s most important to be accurate when there are accusations of misconduct, and you failed to do this by framing imprecision as epistemically untenable
Everyone whose discount rate is lower than mine is a lunatic that cannot account for future unpredictability and disregards the present
Everyone whose rate is higher than mine is a narrow minded idiot that cannot comprehend the glory of the future
(/j ofc)