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I remember when HN was comprised of a high ratio of intelligence to factory fodder

If it's deemed foolish, then either Elon is foolish and making a fool of himself, or there's a misinterpretation of the action. The success someone like Musk repeatedly attains in business cannot be achieved without a significant capacity for making wise, informed decisions, or strategic moves. If his track record is any indication, he'll probably have a successful venture, and I, for one, am fascinated to see the emotional attachment and arrogance the peanut gallery continues to spout. It's a curiosity to me why those who have little to no actual stake or insight seem to have the highest confidence and volume. Perhaps it's a selection bias.

PayPal. SpaceX. SolarCity. Tesla. Boring. Elon Musk has a signature characteristic of building 10x-ethos companies from first principles at great personal & financial risk.

It's the Muskian Cycle: Innovate, try to garner investment, be laughed out of the room, make it work anyways, laugh all the way to the top of tens of thousands of millions of dollars of net worth. Then stuff all the capital into the next Big Thing.

Steve Jobs said something like "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." As far as I can tell, each of Musk's successful ventures has inculcated iterative or multiplicative innovation into the fabric of technology, society, and interaction.

PayPal spearheaded and won the race for payment processing. It wasn't perfect, but it was in no small part due to Musk why the company succeeded and earned its eBay buyout.

SpaceX, with its obvious contributions to the fields of not only rocketry but every second-order industry around it, including testing/software, etc., has been a game-changer. Again, second-order, competition arises, humanity wins.

Ditto Tesla; not only the AI/ML/CV wizardry in the stack but plenty of other non-primary-field innovation and progress comes alongside (manufacturing, battery tech, etc.). I personally am not convinced EVs are some solution to the "climate problem," given the net-impact of mfg and power consumption, but it is a pre-requisite to self-sustainability that we move toward renewables, and with that optimism I move on.

I don't know a whole lot about the Solar operations at Tesla, but SpaceX + Starlink has made one of those incremental improvements in the internet access game. I've got my biggest gripe with this venture - based on Kessler Syndrome, I'm afraid of trashing our space-way by means of junk, though admittedly this fear comes from Stephenson's "Seveneves" and not facts or reality. Orbital tracking remains a significant challenge to the exploding private space industries.

Bringing us to the Boring Co. Literally nobody is complaining about that, but it's such a banal and useful and imperative tech to develop for the overall goal of Martian exploration, and it's not abstract - it exists and is doing what it needs to do.

Certainly 𝕏 (neé Twitter) and Xai are integral to Musk's overarching vision. For years, I've posited that someone should, or perhaps already has, been meticulously analyzing the entirety of Twitter's data. This data, rich in semantic analysis, interaction templating, linguistics, and more, could be instrumental in training and researching emergent systems. The rapid, mostly unfiltered, and bite-sized nature of the medium provides a unique lens into the human thought process, offering a potential approximation of how "thoughts" might interact.

It's possible we (humans) are destined to reclaim our collective consciousness through technology. It is also possible Elon is the anti-Christ, and we should be looking inward, meditating, and removing blockages to our lineage that has shrouded the collective consciousness, muted our heart and soul, and reduced us to a low level of being, what the Buddhists might consider Naraka.

There are a lot of FUD-spreaders about Neuralink, too, but listening to the technical discussions and grokking the science has me convinced they are approaching another sea change. There are hard engineering problems and there are impossible problems. Elon's companies take the hard ones and just work really hard, then get the solution. I see no reason why this approach to software platforms and dynamic interactivity interfaces would be any different.

People don't like change, and they love to complain about something. So I obviously understand why these > angry and disappointed types are out of the woodwork.

But the thing is, we should celebrate and adore the scientific progress, commitment to science & innovation over pure profit, and - in my opinion as a USA chap - dedication to as much free speech as possible.

Cringe, hate, love, whatever - the guy is objectively successful and objectively delivered on some cool shit. I wouldn't argue he is the most precise or accurate predictor, but he's quite the visionary. When the Starship gets to orbit, there'll be some more creative press and commentary, but I will be watching and as excited as when the Roadster Spaceman went to Mars. Or when I saw the first booster landings.

Everyone fails, we are defined by how hard we try.

Funny, in my high school literature class I clearly remember being chastised for having sources in my works cited; but not warranting their inclusion with an actual reference in the work.

It's kind of wild that LLMs and other models/sequences will be able to quickly suss out which papers have high levels of referential integrity.

Isn't this a serious simplification? Tokens are just the medium

Not to mention our wetbrain software is analog, resonant with the environment, continuous and has a single uptime, in most cases. We should consider developing llms in proto human history style, random noise meets environs, evolve useful signs and symbols based on clusters of semantic embedding. Uno reverse it through a dynamic parallel narrative simulator circuit with range of values for interpretative feedback of context analysis. Assign allomorphic symbols to conceptual clusters. Refine resolution. Add modules for memory and inputs for updating knowledge, shine it up with some polish and you've got AGI

Yes, and information is much, much different than knowledge.

The issue here is one of semiotics and morphemology. Mapping meaning into a narrative and ontological protocol is going to be the requisite work if we want the engine to be "smart." As explored in the discussion at hand, tokenization creates a great mimic but it's a parlor trick. We must employ a robust thinking-thing that correlates not only a static, contextually indexed dictionary <lexicography>, we must also route that through a network to distill meaning itself into tokens. Perhaps languages which rely on morphemes for written language - a logosyllabary - are somewhat more or less suited for this task? I ask as a dummy.

There also exists the consideration of allographemical contextualization, the nature of relevance, pragmatics, conjunct identification of context, semantics. To be honest the linguistics side alone is vast. Knowledge and cognition however. . . A whole other ballgame. But the only tool we have to really get down to the bottom of how knowledge works is language, it's to epistemological pursuit what math is to physics.

While GPT is super impressive and can do a lot of quasi-brute-force things, we're only finding now the rudiments of the machined intelligence paradigm, and it will behoove any reader to brush up on their classics, true pursuants of philosophy and many order logic are about to be in high demand if I had to reckon.

On the theological and philosophical front the DailyWire has presented a riveting seminar series on Exodus

Lol and I just don't host a public forum of identifiable info anymore. Why give future LLMs any more training data

Good! More requests for me

1500 plus hours.... people sure have different philosophies on life

Fascinating, curious how it can be proven, but I'll go do some reading thanks

I don't get it. The first image I can clearly see patterns of triangular arrangements. What does this news actually mean

Something about this comment is terrifying even beyond the story itself. I'll stay a dry land lubber

Where was medicine, 120 years ago?

The Lex Fridman podcast also is a fascinating discussion with Dr. Levin. Mind-blowing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3lsYlod5OU&t=2467s

This might not end well

Blender?

Unreal works fine on Linux. M1 silicon too.

I like it, from a quick hallway-test point of view; especially considering I'm your perfect customer right now, I saw the "$1" listing opportunity and immediately signed up to find out you don't service Minnesota.

`WA, CA, AZ, CO, KS, TX, MO, IN, TN, KY, OH, FL, WI`

You could make this more clear on the front page, of offer an Address/Zip based search, it's in my opinion a so-called "dark pattern" by requiring a login with email to do any basic searching like that.

As per usual.

Your experience is very different than mine.

and they're all identifiably attached to your metadata package(s)

"you're potentially taking X outta more-qualified Y's hands"

Why is this limitation mindset present in some people and not others? I understand quite fully that there is a difference in mindset between growth/limitation but... you're not "Taking a job" if they're more qualified and better-suited, the employer can hire them instead of you, but they didn't. It's not a zero sum world.

Lol let me introduce you to a little organization called the National Security Agency, with their "creepy" periodic snapshots of much more intriguing datasets.

"Stellar Wind" is a good place to start.

Including, but of course not limited to, every communication made by any person within the United States (or outgoing) for the better part of two decades. Internet traffic, communications, all of it.

https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2015/PSP-09-18-15-vol-III.pd...

internet would be better with total anonymity.

yes individualism is the answer; collectivism is also the solution, everyone should do what they think is the morally correct thing and the whole garbage pile will suddenly go away, nobody will starve and Great Leaders will be no more. This has always worked in the past. Leadership be damned! I am important and smart enough to do the right thing!

So what is it, governments are competent or not?

You're being naive and overly critical.

When the mouths are moving, watch the hands.