Tom Evslin

Founder and former CEO and chair of NG Advantage. Nerd, author, inventor. Founder & CEO of ITXC, former Vermont Stimulus Czar, CTO, & Sec of Transportation.

[Tom Evslin @tevslin]

@mikepuchol @SpaceX congratulations, Mike. You were a huge factor in Starlink's early success with tools to track it.

[Tom Evslin @tevslin]

Response to aggression should be massively disproportionate or we are allowing the enemy to set the terms of engagement. That applies to the downing of the Apache helicopter by Iran. Yes, this risks escalation; but the enemy must never, never believe that we can be paralyzed by fear of escalation and should never be able to calculate the cost of their aggression in advance.

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@nfergus @AnthropicAI This is unworkable because cheating can't be detected as it mostly could in the nuclear sphere. A regulatorium just hands AI to the bad guys. Recognizing the dangers in AI means actively using AI as a whitehat in what will be a never ending battle against the blackhats.

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@Dale_Chu @chronicle What's scary is that they're being taught by a generation of teachers (not all, of course) who can't read or do math either. hard to see how we break the cycle.

[Tom Evslin @tevslin]

I am 83. can still drive but not as well as I used to my new model y drives better than I ever did (with a little supervision in work zones and other odd situations). I am hoping that the evolution of fsd will mean my kids won't have to take my keys the way I had to take the keys from my Mom.

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@Noahpinion you have been mentioning the air conditioning - which I'm glad we have

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Agreed. But the "user" is more and more often an agent as well communicating with the server through an MCP rather than through a web page and pretending to be a human. These "users" along with the servers need to be empowered to innovate based on their experience or, even more interesting. depending on their mutual experience.

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we should not replenish with the obsolete weapons we've depleted with disappointing results. Past time to build a new stockpile of much cheaper and more effective weapons. A positive result of the Iran adventure (and Ukraine) is to show us what the arsenal and weapons industry of the future must look like - and to dispose of the obsolete inventory and any temptation to reply on it.

[Tom Evslin @tevslin]

we should not replenish with the obsolete weapons we've depleted with disappointing results. Past time to build a new stockpile of much cheaper and more effective weapons. A positive result of the Iran adventure (and Ukraine) is to show us what the arsenal and weapons industry of the future must look like - and to dispose of the obsolete inventory and any temptation to reply on it.

[The Associated Press @AP]

The U.S. will need years to replenish stockpiles of key weapons used in the Iran war, potentially limiting firepower in any other conflict, a new analysis says. https://t.co/zwBI3fhHvt

[Tom Evslin @tevslin]

we should not replenish with the obsolete weapons we've depleted with disappointing results. Past time to build a new stockpile of much cheaper and more effective weapons. A positive result of the Iran adventure (and Ukraine) is to show us what the arsenal and weapons industry of the future must look like - and to dispose of the obsolete inventory and any temptation to reply on it.

[Tom Evslin @tevslin]

It may well be that the #antigravity upgrade initially wouldn't authenticate for so many people is that the forced upgrade and the need to reauthenticate overwhelmed the servers. maybe google should've asked Gemini to critique the upgrade plan. Or maybe they did (worse)

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Google release a new version of @antigravity a few hours ago (which has worked well for me). I was working in the old version which went into an auto-update after which I can't sign into any version. Asked Gemini for help and it hallucinated a number of answers without mentioning the new version, which I found out about here on X along with the information that many people are caught in the same limbo and can't proceed with their work. May be time to try Claude Code.

[Tom Evslin @tevslin]

after deleting and reinstalling #antigravityide can get back to the IDE environment I was using. Google's doing a forced (and initially broken)upgrade in the middle of my work to "improve my experience" is not appreciated

[Tom Evslin @tevslin]

@alejandrozepe same error so am dead in the water

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@antigravity can't logon because of the code assist error. don't seem to be able to go back either so am dead in the water

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@DevinGrayBuilds @antigravity getting same error cant get into the new antigravity and cant do my work

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@Noahpinion AI is a great tool for checking citations.

[Tom Evslin @tevslin]

Prediction: Saudi Arabia will fund American automakers making Ukrainian-designed drones.