Scott Erb

Husband, Father, Coach, Leader, Innovator. The 1% Project. Improving 1% each day morally, mentally, and physically.

[Scott Erb @sserb]

@lady_valor_07 Big Lebowski
Kill Bill
English Patient
Cold Mountain

[The Knowledge Archivist @KnowledgeArchiv]

"A good man without strength is only hoping evil has mercy."

— Sun Tzu, The Art of War

[Scott Erb @sserb]

@HowToPrompt__ Gee. ChatGPT acts just like us.

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@dustinthedad @sheshn94 The proper result of building competence and confidence in their proper proportion, is humility.

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@TimOnPoint You’re a sharp man, Tim. This is great work!

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@scottmcnealy It’s literally the law to provide disclosures in federal govt once one is senior enough to influence contracts.

[Scott Erb @sserb]

Yes. This is essentially a systems engineering view of readiness. Every system has at least four components: input, process, output, feedback. We typically measure readiness in terms of inputs: how many $ did we spend, how many x do we have (PESTONI), how many reps did we do. We don’t measure actual combat effectiveness against an adaptive adversary. And we don’t measure our own adaptability and velocity. We just kind of assume they naturally happen with the right inputs.

It’s basically the same as deciding that if an NFL team does all of the strength and conditioning, runs position drill and scrimmages, and watches film, that those events will naturally synthesize into a Super Bowl win. Which we all recognize would be dumb…

[Constantine K @Semper_Viventem]

Claude Code automatically adds itself to the commit metadata "Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus <[email protected]>".

I strongly disagree with crediting Claude as a commit co-author. It is a tool I'm paying for, not a copyright holder, not an author. We don't credit Visual Studio.

[Scott Erb @sserb]

@TimOnPoint @MikeyDiMercurio Of course I believe we should give the guilty SOB a fair trial before we hang him!

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@CynicalPublius @mehdirhasan @RoKhanna The party that defines morality by hating the right people are definitely the good guys.

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@XFreeze @elonmusk Anyone know when Grok build gets incorporated into Cursor?

[lcamtuf @lcamtuf]

Every algorithm is O(1), for a sufficiently large value of 1

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@RoKhanna @elonmusk GFY

[Scott Erb @sserb]

If only they had crashed into the reflecting pool, they could have pwned Trump and Elon at the same time.

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

NYT headline yesterday:

A driver in a Tesla vehicle that was engaged in automated driver-assistance mode crashed into a house in Texas and killed a woman.

Today: Tesla logs confirm the driver manually overrode the self-driving system and had the accelerator floored the entire time.

The first headline (lie) gets all the clicks.
The facts get overlooked.
And the NYT doesn't bother with a correction because it doesn't fit their narrative.

[TimOnPoint @TimOnPoint]

Modern military readiness systems have a category error at their core.

They measure preparedness — how well forces align with expected missions and anticipated conditions. But history shows assumptions fail. Wars, technological shocks, and strategic surprises routinely expose the gap between what was measured and what actually worked.

This thread mirrors a draft paper that proposes a different foundation: Readiness is the ability to generate effective capability regardless of conditions. It is not a condition to be measured (yet). It is an outcome generated by two organizational properties:

- Generative Capacity (A) — the ability to create new capability.
- Adaptation Velocity (Δ) — the speed at which potential becomes capability.

Together they form the Catalytic Layer that converts resources into all real military power.

Thread on rethinking readiness from first principles. 1/11

[Scott Erb @sserb]

@ArthurMacwaters @elonmusk They only want to give if it’s fair first, ie everyone else also has to give. Otherwise, they’re out.

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@yacineMTB Nope. Because software bloat makes them appear just slightly slower every time the hardware gets faster.

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@piersmorgan How will they know they’re trans?

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@millerman Deflation is the result of an abundant culture (in which everything becomes information and is priced by Moore’s Law). It does not cause abundance as the subtitle seems to imply.