Max Badrak

[Max Badrak @maxbadrak]

@offenton72800 @The_One1001 @satnam6502 Make decent EVs at home. The cars will all be electric. That’s, like, inevitable. The collective west can get on with the program, or lose car manufacturing to China.

[Max Badrak @maxbadrak]

@offenton72800 @The_One1001 @satnam6502 These culture wars are silly. EVs are obviously better, and will win over time.

[Max Badrak @maxbadrak]

@despair_chan А що, у Європи є ракети і дрони у товарних кількостях? Це новина, насправді. І хіба умовні німці не вважають масово що воюють тільки лошари, а вони радісно заплатять податки Маскві, і будуть далі пити своє пиво?

[Max Badrak @maxbadrak]

@offenton72800 @The_One1001 @satnam6502 An electric car is much simpler than an ICE one. Like, obviously. Battery, motor, wheels. You close the circuit, it goes. A modern turbo engine with a 28-speed automatic gearbox… good luck popping that. (The engine requires more software to manage it too.)

[Max Badrak @maxbadrak]

@Never_Hedgee @eric23332 @deanwball Right. We can’t scale the grid quickly. Turbines, permits, interconnects, transmission lines — everything takes multiple years. This is a sad fact. The notion that we don’t need to seems… Suspicious.

[Max Badrak @maxbadrak]

@deanwball US companies believe they are in a race to build god. In such a race you obviously go all out with money/scaling/whatever. It’s unclear that LLMs will yield AGI, so this can easily be an enormous bubble.

[Max Badrak @maxbadrak]

@Never_Hedgee @eric23332 @deanwball What’s the lead time on a gas turbine these days?

[Max Badrak @maxbadrak]

@The_One1001 @satnam6502 As if engines don’t have a history of “magically” not starting up. :)

[Max Badrak @maxbadrak]

@AlanDaamn @mkap1nus Пане, проблема ж у чому? Правильно. у тому що у формулі кінетичної енергії м*в^2/2 — швидкість — у квадраті. І вся ця енергія при раптовій зупинці іде у деформацію. Машини, тебе, пішохода…

[Max Badrak @maxbadrak]

@RLHeinrichs Those are sweet words, the problem is that they are empty. US is both not willing and not capable of providing any security guarantees to Ukraine. As an example of actual policy: allowing Russians to sell their oil strengthens Russia, not Ukraine.

[Max Badrak @maxbadrak]

@JonhernandezIA @atmoio @ShimazuSystems That’s meaningless unless you know how many such seats they can sell. Year over year.

[Max Badrak @maxbadrak]

@ShimazuSystems @atmoio For them to be worth the $1,000,000,000,000, they need to make, like, $50,000,000,000. Every year. How much of that can you pay them?

[Max Badrak @maxbadrak]

@WillPBach @NotWoofers The essence is approximately “Fuck, let it not dive into that guy! It fucking will dive into that guy! Fuck! boom! Fuck!”

[Max Badrak @maxbadrak]

@Maks_NAFO_FELLA He’s lying. :) building out the industrial capacity for this would be quite noticeable and bombable by both Russians and Americans. So no, it’s not easy.

[Max Badrak @maxbadrak]

@AndreasShrugged What can Ukraine actually do to reliably dissuade Russia from blowing up electrical transformers and generators? Extracting a cost by sending a few small drones here and there does not seem to do it. :(

[Max Badrak @maxbadrak]

@RyanO_ChosenCoy @James32815789 Does US still have a lot of leverage over Ukraine? I’d expect the Europeans to be able to do this — they are the ones financing Ukraine right now…

[Max Badrak @maxbadrak]

@teortaxesTex Notably, Iran appears to be winning the war. Oblivious to sanctions or infrastructure mythosing, or killing of the guy in the biggest turban. And no, US can’t realistically nuke it enough to win the war.

[Max Badrak @maxbadrak]

@Mas5Jason5 @DJSnM I mean, nukes are way, way, WAY hotter.

[Max Badrak @maxbadrak]

@atmoio @DanielMiessler Now, importantly, LLMs are definitely not AGI. They can’t replace you at work. But people are working on making a better mousetrap, and one day they might succeed at building software that can fully replace humans at all jobs. That is legit scary.

[Max Badrak @maxbadrak]

@atmoio @DanielMiessler A camera does not have to be an atom-by-atom exact copy of an eye to replace an eye is some (or all) contexts. Intelligence is the same, it’s not metaphysical. For now human brain is as general of an intelligence as we’ve seen, but we might be able to build a better one.