@Raemon777 We don't know if the amazing-but-kinda-crappy AI we have now will be like 2024-27 or the next hundred years. No-one seems to have predicted it; fictional AI is either dumb or sentient.
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Rob ๐ค๐
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Rob ๐ค๐
@robots445
I'm just a regular guy; not a lot to say but I like Twitter so I'm going to try to join the conversation.
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์ผ Haziran 2021
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I'm a bit retroactively surprised that, before LLMs, I... don't recall any sci-fi stories where the AIs operated in short bursts of thinking, each mediated by a human.
Or, where the AI is in a "memento" situation where it keeps getting reset.
The story I recall that at least touches on this is some novel in the Star Wars extended universe, where it's remarked that droids are supposed to get "reset" periodically so they don't get wonky. Luke hasn't reset C3PO, which is part of why 3PO has acquired such a personality, and has maybe become sentient (which apparently isn't normal).
Accelerando's early chapters has the main character send little AI agents off to do stuff, which seem like they could at least in principle be something like an OpenClaw instance, but it's not super specified.
It is interesting that this feels like a relatively obvious story concept (in retrospect) but it didn't come up.
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@NeumerkelRudolf @Object_Zero_ Machines have to be robust and heavy to hold precision, so many of their parts will last lifetimes. (I don't think it's literally 100%, they'll need new spindles and controls etc over time, which should factor into the value even after only 3y)
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@Object_Zero_ Why does the residual value of such an equiment stay at 100%? I did not get how you got to this conclusion? Thanks
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The Isomodal Factory
If manufacturing equipment can arrive as an isofreight container and be setup in 1 day, then the residual value of that equipment after 3 years of use should be practically 100%, depreciation should converge to 0%.
This is FUNDAMENTALLY different to how we capitalise plant equipment today.
If your products are designed to retain residual value, by designing for the secondary market, then that FUNDAMENTALLY changes the lifecycle cost of ownership.
This turns capital intensive industries into capital light industries, through nothing more than a different product design philosophy.
If you design for forced obsolescence, or permissive obsolescence then the lifecycle cost of ownership is high, and your clients must operate a capital intensive balance sheet.
If you design for retained residual value, and rapid redeployment, then the lifecycle cost of ownership is low, and your clients can operate a capital light balance sheet.
If factory commissioning is more reversible and residual value is more retainable, then capital intensity is reduced and itโs suddenly much easier to capitalise new manufacturing capacity.
This requires industrialist understanding, but you can trust me on this. Isomodal plant equipment is one path to accelerating reindustrialisation.
This feels off, because buying equipment that is fast to redeploy FEELS like hedging your own failure, but it isnโtโฆ itโs actually a path to faster business growth via lower capital intensity and a more efficient balance sheet.
Itโs counterintuitive initially, but at scale this theory will rip l any major industrial build out upward to faster growth.
Machina Labs@MachinaLabs_
We build factories that deliver production grade metal structures for defense and mobility. Faster than anyone thought possible. And weโre hiring people who want to work on the hard stuff. โข Robotic Process Engineers โข Senior Mechanical Engineers โข Senior Industrial Automation Engineers โข Senior DevOps Engineers โข Software Engineers - Testing โข And moreโฆ Machina is the Factory. Come build with us.
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Driving back from the airport from a quite spendy holiday in Venice, and the car engine light comes on. How do machines always know???
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@HiddenYorkshire I'm sure you (or siblings if you have them) are the source of these. We have a bunch of words that came from our kids, but they don't remember originating them.
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can't believe I've not told you this before but my dad has had, for years, his own made-up language. it adds a bit of whimsy to our otherwise tedious lives. here's some highlights:
bimblewince = ambulance
foldidolls = daffodils
skickle-de-wisks = cyclists
primli-dimli-doos = primroses
gluepot = toilet
bin-dan-doolies = bananas
finicky particulars = sanitary towels
Catherine Warr@HiddenYorkshire
'chronotic' yeah I just made it up. what are you going to do about it? it keeps my idiolect nice and stretched so i'll never get mistaken for AI slop
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My wife hasn't seen 'Don't Look Now', and has randomly chosen this iconic red coat look to wander the alleys of Venice. Hopefully not freaking too many people out.
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@nealasher You use the word numinous quite a bit in your books (re: life in the Polity) and I'd love to know more about what exactly it means to you. Seems to be about awe and mystery and divine presence - do you use it to mean, like, super-awesome, or what connotations make it feel right?
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Y'know, one thing that science fiction hasn't examined enough is: how do you build and expand a civilisation into something numinous, somewhere much higher on the Kardashev scale, while also dealing with those voting for and advocating this kind of fuckwittery?
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Zack Polanski@ZackPolanski
Half a million people standing against the far right. Half a million people who care about each other and our communities. Half a million people ready to make hope normal again.
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@molsjames @anish_koka Not to justify the person in question, but dermatologists do a fair bit of chopping out skin cancers and similar.
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@anish_koka Why is a dermatologist โscrubbed inโ
To surgery?
Iโm not aware of a single derm procedure that should โresult in brain damageโ ๐ฌ
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The "dancing doctor" story is wild when you look at the resume.
Dr. Windell Davis-Boutte:
โข BS from Xavier University (HBCU)
โข MD from UCLA School of Medicine
โข Dermatology residency at Emory under renowned derm chief Thomas Lawley
โข Board certified since 1997
Around 2018: 20+ videos posted publicly of herself dancing over unconscious patients, scalpel in hand, no mask, no gloves. Staff in scrubs as backup dancers.
100+ patients came forward with complaints. 1 case of Brain damage. Many more disfigured. The Georgia Medical Board intervenes to suspend her license.
I have trouble believing the trouble started with her self-immolating videos in 2018.
Lord Bebo@MyLordBebo
๐บ๐ธ An Atlanta based plastic surgeonfaced multiple malpractice lawsuits for negligence after she was dancing and singing while performing surgery. One of the lawsuits comes from a family that claims the doctor left their mother brain damaged.
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@thatuapgirl I was convinced of this and spent time looking into it a while back. I think what we're remembering is a marketing push by Walkers (who always had the 'wrong' colours) in the 90s.
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UK Folks. Salt and vinegar crisps used to be in the blue coloured packets.
Thatโs the timeline I lived in. I remember when it changed to green.
Who else lived this timeline with me?
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SUP
UWU
PUS
It's not exactly sator arepo tenet opera rotas but it's kinda magic.
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@drsarah What's in a name? WD-40 has lubricating properties and can be used as such. If it lubricates it's a lubricant. The most extreme example I can think of is that glue can act as a lubricant, before it hardens.
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I donโt know who needs to hear this but WD-40 is a solvent not a lubricant.
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@pagan_hoetry For those wondering, it was a decompression accident on a vessel called the Byford Dolphin, no actual dolphin was involved in harming the divers.
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@stefan_salaices To the world at large, working at NASA already carries more kudos than those others.
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Do y'all think working at NASA can become as highly renowned as working at SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke, Relativity, Rocketlab, etc?
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@WingsScotland Possible it never gets blunt, but once all the stuff that goes on the page is leached out, it's still sharp but doesn't write any more. Like a Biro never "gets dull" either.
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If the tip never wears down, why do you sell 4-packs of replacements?
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A factory operative, a tough-looking older lady, was explaining something at length to the young female quality manager who eventually cut her off with, "Yeah, all right Mum." Oh boy. I thought I was about to witness a murder. Turned out they were actually mother and daughter!
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@JulianFried I think it's weird and complicated. There's the Baumol cost disease thing - as long as *some* American industries are super productive, welder wages will be high. But yeah, that would be limited to site welding unless you're competitive on an international playing field.
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This is 5x the global average wage, by the way. I'm a welder and have no problem with this. If you want 5x the global average wage, you need to do 5x the work. If you want 10x the average, do 10x the work. Personally, the only way I see to get there is through automation. I want 1000โs of welding robots under my control and I will charge accordingly
Jason Premo โข Acclaim Aerospace@JasonPremoMFG
Employers: "lack of skilled labor! Gaww!" Also employers: $24/hr for SKILLED welder Feels. Bad. Man.
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@xdNiBoR Getting to Italy and finding all the sockets in my apartment weren't this, which I had adapters for, but three narrow inline holes instead (type L), was an experience.
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Say what you want about Europe but our electrical outlets are far superior and that is a fact
John Boland (JIB)@actualjib
Hear me out: these but sheet metal.
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@that_stocks_guy I'd love to see a breakdown of the finances of premium cars you see. Probably most are just owners with a lot of money. Probably some are corporate vehicles which are or aren't being taxed appropriately. Probably *some* owned by the overly indebted.
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I used to think like this but it turns out some people just have money.
The lie that everyone driving a decent car lives in fear of their credit card debt, and are one redundancy away from penury, is designed to make you feel better about not having what they have.
Freedom Bill ๐ธ๐๏ธ๐๏ธ@freedombill3
Walking past a David Lloyd car park on a Saturday afternoon looks like an absolute parade of pure wealth. You see endless rows of brand new Porsche 911s and Range Rovers sitting outside the premium gym and spa. It looks like the ultimate definition of success, but the reality behind the dashboard is completely different. Let us look at the actual numbers keeping that illusion alive. To put a brand new Porsche 911 por Range Rover on your driveway, you are easily handing over ยฃ1,200 - ยฃ1,500 every single month on a PCP finance deal. Then you are paying another two hundred quid a month just for the premium gym membership so you have somewhere flash to park it. That is nearly ยฃ1,700 pounds leaving the current account every single month, to rent an aesthetic. Over a single year, that is a full ยฃ20,000 Stocks and Shares ISA allowance completely wiped out. They are literally going broke just to look rich to people they do not even know. If the monthly salary stops, the car gets repossessed and the membership gets cancelled almost instantly. Real wealth is not driving a rented supercar to a premium treadmill. Real wealth is driving a standard car that you own outright, while your cash buys slices of the S&P 500 $VUSA or Vanguard Global $VWRL in the background. Are you funding a car dealership's profit margin? Or are you building freedom? Please don't rent the illusion.
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"a 1kmยณ radius" an interesting mathematical concept, no?
Liam Holman@Liam_Holman99
There should be a 1kmยณ radius surrounding rural railway stations that overrides the Green Belt and developments can be built there under normal planning law.
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@F530Josh I dragged along a pal who had never heard of the book. He watched the trailer. And was of the opinion that they had to show you that in order to show much of what the movie was about. How Grace came to be on board, and where he ended up, are still pretty big twists.
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Project Hail Mary was a 9.5/10
Outstanding cinematography and the practical effects were a breath of fresh air after being bombarded with constant AI and CGI slop for the last fifteen years.
They lose a half point for ruining the surprise character in the trailers.
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@s8mb All the new towns I can think of are named after historical figures... John Milton, Isaac Newton, Saint Peter, Basil Brush.
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Crass, unimaginative and, in the case of โSeacoleโ, desperate. English towns are not named after historical figures - this isnโt America.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
๐จ NEW: The proposed names the Government is considering calling its new towns - Elizabethtown (after the Queen) - Pankhurst (after suffragette Emmeline) - Attleeton (after ex-PM) - Athelstan (first King of England) - Seacole (after nurse Mary) [@thetimes]
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