Alex Huskey

@_bcbread @SawyerMerritt Where does your endless supply of red herrings come from?

@AlexHuskey6 @SawyerMerritt Where do you people with a single post and 110 followers come from? Asking for a friend.

WSJ: Tesla Finally Has Its First Semi-Truck and It’s Already a Hit With Truckers. "Truckers who drove it in pilot tests say they loved features including a centered driving position, faster charging and longer range for about $100,000 less than other battery-electric trucks. Angel Rodriguez, a 56-year-old truck driver for Hight Logistics in Long Beach, Calif., recently swapped out a 13-gear diesel truck for a Tesla Semi, which is automatic, for a one-month pilot test. “It’s just easier on your body. It’s less stressful because you’re not really having to engage the clutch and the stick shift.” Big F Transport employs five mechanics to service more than 40 diesel-powered rigs and a fleet of trailer chassis in Wilmington, Calif. “If we go all EV we will only need one [mechanic] to service chassis,” said Geovanny Melendez, the carrier’s VP of operations, who went to see the Semi earlier this month at a ride-and-drive event near the Port of Long Beach. Jennie Abarca, co-founder and CEO of King Fio Trucking in Long Beach, Calif., once worked as a truck dispatcher and her husband is a truck driver, so she knows all too well the toll a diesel engine takes on people’s lungs and hearing. She eventually wants to swap out King Fio’s 27 diesel trucks to create an all-electric fleet. King Fio already has 11 battery-electric trucks from Volvo and Nikola. But the company limits those trucks to shorter trips to and from local ports because they only have a range of about 225 miles. The Semi, by contrast, can travel 500 miles on a single charge, according to Tesla. For King Fio that means two or three round-trips a day from Long Beach to warehouses in the nearby Inland Empire or a single round-trip to Las Vegas. She has 20 Semis on order. “The Teslas change everything,” Abarca said. “It opens up a whole different type of delivery that I can make.”

@_bcbread @SawyerMerritt It’s easy: Tesla motors have all the torque, all the time. No tranny needed. Regenerative braking is like a Jake Brake that makes fuel.

@SawyerMerritt With no gears, how do these handle steep grades in adverse driving conditions??

@sandeepnailwal Yes, and Christianity & Judaism concur. Moderns are being blinded by mathmagic.

LLM based AI is NOT conscious. I co-founded a company literally called Sentient, we're building reasoning systems for AGI, so believe me when I say this. I keep seeing smart people, people I genuinely respect, come out and say that AI has crossed into some kind of awareness. That it feels things, that we should worry about it going rogue. And i think this whole conversation tells us way more about ourselves than it does about AI. These models are wild, i won't pretend otherwise. But feeling human and actually having inner experience are completely different things and we're confusing the two because our brains literally can't help it. We evolved to see minds everywhere and now that wiring is misfiring on language models. I grew up in a philosophical tradition that has thought about consciousness longer than almost any other, and this is the part that really frustrates me about the current conversation. The entire framing of "does AI have consciousness?" assumes consciousness is something you build up to by adding more layers of complexity. In Vedantic philosophy it's the opposite. You don't build toward consciousness. Consciousness is already there, more fundamental than matter or energy. Everything else, including computation, is downstream of it. When someone tells me AI is "waking up" because it generated a paragraph that felt real, what they're telling me is how thin our understanding of consciousness has gotten. We've reduced a question humans have wrestled with for thousands of years to "did the output sound like it had feelings?" It's math that has gotten really good at predicting what a conscious being would say and do next. Calling that consciousness cheapens something that Vedantic, Buddhist, Greek and Sufi thinkers spent millennia actually sitting with. We didn't build something that thinks. We built a mirror and right now a lot of very smart people are mistaking the reflection for something looking back.

@NevrEnoughX @PeterDiamandis Sneaky man!

@AlexHuskey6 @PeterDiamandis well after a few thousand miles you kind of get used to each other

Tesla's FSD: 5.3 million miles between accidents. US driving average: 660,000.  That's 9x safer. And it's only getting better.

@wilsonhlthcoach But statins make money for…someone!

My 72-year-old uncle and his doctor had a conversation about statins. He has always been healthy, fit, and active. A low BMI, good BP, he doesn't smoke or have diabetes. He eats beef, seafood, some vegetables, rice, potatoes, nuts, and some fruits. No sweets or processed foods. Doc: "Your cholesterol is high. I'd like you to start taking a statin. Uncle: "What part of my cholesterol is high?" Doc: "Your LDL." Uncle: "Why do I need a statin?" Doc: "Because high LDL will increase your risk of heart attack or stroke." Uncle: "But I'm healthy and active. What's my actual risk?" Doc: "High. If you take a statin, you'll have a lower risk and longer life expectancy." Uncle: "What are the side effects of a statin?" Doc: "Well, some people experience joint pain, muscle soreness, memory issues, elevated blood sugar, and digestive issues." Uncle: "So, it could increase my risk of diabetes?" Doc: "Yes." Uncle: "By how much?" Doc: "Up to about 35%." Uncle: "Isn't diabetes a big risk factor in developing cardiac issues and heart attacks?" Doc: "Yes. It's a major risk factor." Uncle: "By how much?" Doc: "People with diabetes have a 3x-4x higher chance of having a heart attack." Uncle: "So, how much would diabetes reduce my life expectancy?" Doc: "Up to 10 years." Uncle: "So, if I took a statin, how long would I need to take it?" Doc: "For the rest of your life." Uncle: "And what would my life expectancy be if I took it, and it didn't give me diabetes?" Doc: "There is a calculation I could do that tells me your risk and life expectancy." Uncle: "How does the calculation work?" Doc: "It looks at information like your BMI, BP, total cholesterol, HDL, LDL, and the fact that you don't smoke, you don't have diabetes, and if you're on any meds for hypertension or cholesterol." Uncle: "So, it doesn't just look at my LDL but my overall health too. What does it say my life expectancy would be if I took a statin and it didn't give me diabetes?" Doc: "You could live 1 extra day." Uncle: "Just 1 day? I would take a med for the rest of my life that could cause joint pain, muscle soreness, memory loss, digestive issues, up to 35% chance of developing diabetes which could put me at a 3x-4x higher risk of having a heart attack and taking up to 10 years off of my life, and I'd only get 1 extra day?" Doc: "Well, yes." Uncle: "Ya, I don't think I need the statin."

@markcecchini Now show the SS and Medicare taxes, plus costs for supplementals like medicines, dental, vision. A paid off house is a hard-won success in these volatile these days; many refinanced to get through layoffs or more bad times.

...Husband (69) social security: $45K/year ...Wife (68) social security: $35K/year ...Husband (69) private pension: $40K/year = $120k/year of "mailbox money" before having to touch their portfolio. All 3 income adjusted by inflation every year. No mortgage payments. Damn.

@KrystalWaterfor @Samuel_Gregson Queen of Cheap Shots, Starlink actually works. And the reusable rockets are saving tons of money. The cars are bestselling. The tunnel boring machine is being improved with every iteration. Where do you get the crazy standards you hold Musk to?

One of his favorite industries is a literal swamp of booster-memes, Animated Posing Anime Girls, and AI Gidget Porn. He also built a 1:1 copy of an online knowledge base and used his entire AI factory to extend every item into an AI Expanded Mythology. He shoots off rockets to dump hundreds of tin-foil antenna repeaters for Slow-Link ISP. The powered BORING BIT machine he purchased only makes money when it runs, which it never does. mention...the battery car co. with it's expanding reduced sales. Or the PV Roofing com..or the department of "spending money to steal Americas Database". But he's remarking over science taking "long time". A Genius, huh

This is now the lazy, cleverest little boy take regarding physics and it’s all over the internet. Why? Because it sounds deep to non experts, requires no knowledge or learning to say and plays to our anti-establishment moment.

@Samuel_Gregson @kiwi_skeptical Such glib criticism of a guy who has a degree in physics. And economics. He’s put both to good use, no?

@kiwi_skeptical 99% of his schtick is regurgitating “deep thoughts” for idiots, because he’s an idiot.

@Samuel_Gregson Theoretical physicist Carver Mead is not sanguine about modern physics. In George Gilder’s seminal interview, Mead explains why Bohr & his Copenhagen Cohorts wrongheadedly steered physics away from intuitive ideas and into mathy kludges like “curving the shape of space.”

@5crewdriver @Samuel_Gregson You just glossed over the rivalry between Einstein & Bohr as if it didn’t matter.

"We" developed the theory of, say, quantum mechanics, over a century ago. Great minds the like of which we have not seen since, Einstein, Bohr, Schrödinger to name just a few. From those theories we developed models for how the universe works. And it's been fantastically successful. It works, repeatable, predictable results but the standard model is obviously wrong at a very deep and significant level. We cannot reconcile the microscopic world of particles with the real world. We need a giant leap forwards in the theory, as great a step as it was from Newton to Einstein if not even more dramatic. I sincerely doubt we can take that step by trying to fiddle and tweak the current model(s). I mean we have been doing that now for about a century... There is every chance that such a dramatic insight will eventually be made not by man but by A.I. That is assuming of course that it is in fact possible to find a "theory of everything" from within the structure we are attempting to examine.

@r0ck3t23 Elon’s great but no. The cotton gin didn’t reduce the number of slaves needed on plantations either. There are jobs that Ai could replace, but they could’ve been obviated by plain ol’ Business Process Automation long before Ai.

Elon Musk just described the white-collar extinction event. On Joe Rogan. Casually. Musk: “Anything that is digital, which is like just someone at a computer doing something, AI is going to take over those jobs like lightning.” Not gradually. Not eventually. Lightning. The assumption most professionals are operating on is that AI will assist them. Make them faster. Augment what they do. That assumption is the most expensive mistake a person can make right now. Musk: “Just like digital computers took over the job of people doing manual calculations. But much faster.” Think about that analogy for a moment. We used to employ entire rooms of people whose sole function was arithmetic. Highly educated. Well-compensated. Essential to every organization that ran on numbers. Then the computer arrived and the entire category disappeared. Not shrank. Disappeared. Nobody talks about it as a tragedy anymore because the transition happened before most people alive today were born. It’s just history. A curiosity. That same transition is happening right now to coding, writing, analysis, research, legal work, financial modeling. Every profession whose output lives entirely on a screen. The difference is the speed. Digital computers took decades to displace manual calculation. This is moving in years. If your work begins and ends on a screen, you are not competing with a tool that makes someone else more productive. You are competing with a replacement that does not sleep, does not need benefits, and gets cheaper every six months. Musk is not predicting this future. He is describing the present tense.

@alt_w_v_g HR—Hardly Relevant!

Update: Wednesday The department-wide meeting I was not invited I went anyway 8am Walked in Legal pad in hand The room was full Not just HR Not just finance The entire floor Someone from marketing was there She had "Identified Adjective: Creative" in her email signature I've never met her HR stood at the front PowerPoint on the screen Slide one: "Email Signature Policy: Clarification & Compliance" I sat in the front row HR looked at me I opened my legal pad She began "Effective immediately, the email signature policy will require identified pronouns only. Adjectives are not included." I raised my hand She said "we're not taking questions yet" I said "it's not a question. It's a point of order. The current policy says 'identified.' It does not specify a part of speech. You're changing the policy, not clarifying it." Legal was in the back of the room He nodded Again HR said "we've updated the language" I said "when" She said "this morning" I said "so the policy I complied with yesterday is no longer the policy today" She said "correct" I said "and I'm the one being non-compliant" The room was quiet The controller raised his hand He said "so do I remove 'Tired' or not" Someone in the back laughed HR did not laugh The analyst was standing in the doorway I didn't invite him He came anyway He was holding a legal pad I looked at him He looked at me I didn't say anything But I noted it HR said "going forward, signatures will include name, title, and identified pronouns. Nothing else." I said "I'll comply with the new policy" She looked surprised I said "effective today. As written. Until someone changes it again." My boss said "I think that's fair" HR closed the PowerPoint Meeting adjourned in 14 minutes I walked out The analyst followed me He said "so the adjectives are gone?" I said "from the signature, yes" He said "that's it?" I said "the policy changed. So I'll change." He looked confused I said "but the policy didn't say anything about the out-of-office auto-reply" He stared at me I stared back He smiled First time I've ever seen that kid smile at work I think he just earned his first adjective Updated my out-of-office to: Thank you for your email. I am currently unavailable. Best, Ethan Brooks Identified Adjectives: Smart / Handsome Identified Chromosomes: XY For urgent matters, please contact HR. They love hearing from people. Sent from my iPhone

@niccruzpatane Another one doomed to the fate of Fisker, Nikola, ad infinitum.

This new company called Tensor Auto is claiming they’re making the first Level 4 autonomous vehicle that you can personally own. It costs $200,000. 😂 • 37 Cameras • 5 LiDAR Sensors • 11 Radar Units • 22 Microphones • 10 Ultrasonic Sensors • 8 Water-Level Sensors

@NevrEnoughX @PeterDiamandis How can you? The new Model Y I drove for a day and a half warned me when I was reading a text for too long.

@PeterDiamandis And I’m paying attention less and less

@Teslarati Rolling stops will get you a ticket in many cities. And I want to specify sticking to the speed limit (or 5 miles over) in all modes.

🚨 What improvements would you like to see Tesla make with the next Full Self-Driving version? For me, it's going to be: ☑️ Better parking ☑️ More assertiveness at intersections ☑️ Better speed reduction when entering slower Speed Limit zones

@SenFettermanPA Senator Fetterman is obviously controlled opposition.

83% of Americans agree on voter ID. 71% of Democrats agree on voter ID. Keep it basic: PHOTO ID to vote. Stop turning this into a Christmas list and attacking vote-by-mail. If GOP wants real reform over a show vote––put out a clean, standalone bill and I’m AYE.

@rob66782 @HallsofDon @AlBuffalo2nite Dogfighting has been snubbed since the Korean & Vietnam Wars when America had to catch up with nimble Commie planes. The Brass wants workhorses not fighters, even weighing down the F-16 which was intended as a pure fighter.

@AlexHuskey6 @HallsofDon @AlBuffalo2nite Dogfighting is basically over unless it’s two gen 4 fighters that happen to get close enough. Vectoring bleeds energy too fast. You basically get one shot.

🚨People watching this think it looks fake… It isn’t. That is a real F-22 Raptor performing an unrestricted climb. This maneuver is something only a handful of aircraft on Earth can do. When the pilot rotates and goes straight up like that, the aircraft is converting pure engine thrust into vertical climb. The reason it can do it comes down to the engines. The F-22 is powered by two Pratt & Whitney F119-PW-100 turbofan engines. Each engine produces about 35,000 pounds of thrust with afterburner. Combined thrust: About 70,000 pounds. Now compare that to the aircraft’s weight. Typical combat weight: ≈ 64,000 pounds That means the Raptor has a thrust-to-weight ratio greater than 1:1. In simple terms… The engines produce more thrust than the aircraft weighs. That allows the jet to accelerate vertically. And it gets even crazier. The engines use two-dimensional thrust-vectoring nozzles, allowing the exhaust to tilt up and down to maintain control even when airflow over the wings is minimal. Top speed ≈ Mach 2.25 (about 1,700 mph) Supercruise ≈ Mach 1.5 without afterburners Service ceiling ≈ 65,000 feet Only about 183 operational F-22s were ever built. Which means when you see a Raptor do this climb… You’re watching one of the most advanced air-dominance fighters ever created. #SilentMajoritySpeaks #AStoneGroove

@JasonrShuman Get rid of the guild mentality strangling trainees and the shortage will disappear. And nobody will die.

The US needs 500,000 new electricians this decade. Apprenticeships take 5 years. Microsoft’s Brad Smith says it’s the #1 thing slowing data center expansion. The AI bottleneck isn’t chips. It’s the trades.

@itsmichaelnorth @heavensbvnny Michael, you quibble about semantics. Everyone understands subscriptions to mean that when one doesn’t pay, the service ceases or the device bricks up. The matter for society to decide is encapsulated in the Right to Repair movement, which applies ti cars, printers, ‘puters, etc

@heavensbvnny You typed this on a phone you own. Microsoft office is used on a computer that you own. By the way, microsoft office has been subscription service since it was invented. Literally always has been. For over 30 years its been subscritpion based.

You know what really bugs me these days? We can't own anything. Everything is a subscription service, like literally everything. You can't buy Microsoft Office, you have to purchase a subscription for a year. You literally have to pay for everything FOREVER. Isn't anyone else bothered by this?

@elonmusk Yes—we won’t get fooled again!

This happened under a “conservative” government