UltraSane

Elon actually bragged about destroying USAID on Twitter.

"We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could gone to some great parties. Did that instead."

This is the richest man in the world being GLEEFUL abut destroying an organization that helps the poorest people in the world. Musk is basically Ebenezer Scrooge.

In an interview when asked about it he insisted their was vast amounts of fraud in USAID.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1886307316804263979?lang=en

Except it is very ugly and the triangle profile created a impractically large windshield and caused the bed cover to completely block the rear window when closed.

I can only imagine how many people told Musk that the Cybertruck was a horrible idea and he completely ignored them and probably fired a lot of them. Musk basically re-enacted the Simpsons episode where Homer's brother lets him design a car and it is so bad it bankrupts the company.

Self-driving cars should be required to use sensors that directly and accurately measure distances to objects. Just guessing the distance using parallax is stupid.

The hype and lies are about how profitable robotaxis will be and the claim that private people will be able to participate.

Ze Frank is very funny and a true fact is that his father is Joachim Frank, a German-American biophysicist and Nobel Laureate. He won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (shared with Jacques Dubochet and Richard Henderson) for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution.

If you mean enforcement of laws then yes.

Just hype and lies from Musk. He has been lying about self-driving cars for 10 years now.

They were basically just a national sales tax.

Centralized monitoring of thousands of refrigerators makes sense but it should be read only.

Gambling is an inherently unproductive parasitic thing that people can get addicted to and destroy their own lives and the lives of their family members.

Companies should only ever use tape with a good robotic tape library. LTO tape drives automatically read every single write to verify the data immediately.

I've heard of them but they obviously don't actually practice their beliefs.

https://hister.org/ is a neat website indexing and archival tool.

Yes it is interesting how religions never differ on the need to eat and breathe.

There was no need for the mass evacuation of about 164,000 people.

https://theconversation.com/evacuating-a-nuclear-disaster-ar...

"Who decides what "reality" is,"

Repeatable scientific experiments. Trying to argue objective reality doesn't exist is logically incoherent.

It can take a long time for the economic gain of new technology to be visible in GDP because people have to learn how to use it effectively and processes have to change to integrate it. It took about 40 years for factory floors to be fully reconfigured around distributed electric motors rather than central steam shafts.

Better means smaller gap with reality. Science works because it is basically a negative feedback control loop to minimize this gap.

Nobody has a working car that doesn't need energy. I almost changed it to energy but figured nobody would not get the point.

"Objective reality does not imply consistent measurement of that reality."

Yet global science converges on a consistent world view. Everybody's telescopes all see the same things.

Modern technology only works because there is a objective reality.

Lure people? It isn't a cult.

Objective reality exists. Nobody has a car that doesn't need gas or electricity.

I don't think neural networks have the same ability of self deception as humans do. A huge reason human world models vary so much is due to them being tied to tribal membership. A huge fraction of all people will not come to a rational worldview derived from accurate data but will start with their tribe's worldview and filter data to match. I personally have never modified my worldview for social reasons and it is surprisingly isolating.

The Platonic Representation Hypothesis initially feels profound but actually seems inevitable after some thought because all neural networks are trying to model the same reality. It would actually be weirder if it wasn't true and neural networks could form completely incompatible representations of the same reality. In some sense it seems similar to reducing different math equations to the same most simplified form

As an American it is pure hell. Every day I feel like Marty McFly waking up in the nightmare timeline where Biff controls things. And my own brother voted for Trump 3 times yet absolutely refuses to talk about him under any circumstances.

How is food produced today? Using very expensive machines and fertilizer and carefully bred seeds. That is all wealth.

You keep proving you don't understand what actually happened at Chernobyl or have a sense of scale of the energies involved. Hydrogen gas exploding is a completely different thing than a badly designed reactor instantly generating over 100 times its designed output and exploding. The hydrogen gas did explode at Fukushima and this damaged the outer building. Fukushima was a firecracker compared to Chernobyl being an actual nuclear bomb.

They are if you can get launch costs cheap enough. I hope that is possible but I don't think that it is.

Unlimited power and real estate with zero local opposition.

What DOES it look like in 2026? Can the average non-technical 70 year old use it?