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Lewis Withrow (LB)

@LewisWithrow5

Shareholder. Tesla Solar & Powerwalls. Cybertruck with FSD. Starllink. -Grateful & happy. Astounded by AI. Waiting on Optimus.

Tampa area Florida Katılım Kasım 2020
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Lewis Withrow (LB)
Lewis Withrow (LB)@LewisWithrow5·
What if they just serve us; all the time, everywhere? It doesn't make a scary Hollywood movie, but it would be wonderful. This is among the possibilities.
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PeterSweden
PeterSweden@PeterSweden7·
So 7 of 10 Swedish people don't belive the USA is a democracy anymore. Meanwhile Sweden has 65 no-go zones and Malmö is ranked as dangerous as Baghdad... Are people completely brainwashed?
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Sama Hoole
Sama Hoole@SamaHoole·
>be butter >be made by churning cream >two ingredients: cream, sometimes salt >be used as food since at least 8000 BC >contain vitamins A, D, E and K2 >K2: directs calcium into bones, away from arteries >contain conjugated linoleic acid: anti-inflammatory, associated with reduced cancer risk in studies >contain butyrate: the preferred fuel of colon cells, anti-inflammatory >be stable at cooking temperatures >taste like butter because you are butter >1950s: saturated fat hypothesis gains traction >margarine industry funds research >butter is blamed for heart disease >1977: US dietary guidelines recommend replacing butter with vegetable spreads >UK follows >margarine sales explode >original margarine: partially hydrogenated vegetable oil >partially hydrogenated vegetable oil: trans fat >trans fat: raises LDL, lowers HDL, directly inflammatory >trans fat: causes the heart disease butter was blamed for >1990s: trans fat crisis >margarine reformulates >butter: still listed as "use sparingly" >margarine: still "heart healthy spread" > still contains trans fats >butter: unchanged since 8000 BC >margarine: caused a public health crisis and is still poisoning you >butter was not involved in any of this >butter was simply in the way
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Butch Nottingham
Butch Nottingham@ButchNottingham·
@Christianfg08 @Kristennetten @PeterSweden7 Or maybe they’re the same thing and you simply regurgitate that talking point in order to sound smart when in reality you can’t comprehend a simple fact. A republic is a form of democracy 😘
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Lewis Withrow (LB)
Lewis Withrow (LB)@LewisWithrow5·
A constitutional republic is a mediated democracy. Our Constitution is a bulwark against mob thinking. A democracy is ruled by the "will of the people," Often called "tyranny of the majority." In this system, there are few safeguards to stop a majority from voting away the rights of a minority group...like free speech, for instance. A constitutional republic is ruled by "the law." The law acts as an inertial mass damping wild swings. In a constitutional republic the head of state and other officials are elected (voted in) representatives of the people. They must govern according to the existing constitution (the supreme law) that limits government power.
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Lewis Withrow (LB)
Lewis Withrow (LB)@LewisWithrow5·
@elonmusk @pbeisel It seems significant that the path for gaming silicon development turned out to be the path for AI as well.
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Elon Musk
Elon Musk@elonmusk·
@pbeisel I am a huge admirer of Nvidia and Jensen btw. That market cap is well-deserved. SpaceX AI and Tesla expect to continue ordering Nvidia chips at scale.
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phil beisel
phil beisel@pbeisel·
Tesla’s forthcoming AI5 uses a half-reticle design, which is crucial for yield. A reticle defines the imaging area of a lithography machine, fitting two chips per shot effectively doubles yield. This means the Tesla chip design team had to carefully manage die features, for instance dropping the older ISP (and classic GPU) to make room for more AI cores. By contrast, NVIDIA’s Blackwell fills nearly a full reticle, making it a single-reticle design. If Tesla hits its compute and efficiency targets with AI5 in this half-reticle format, it’s almost like cutting fab requirements in half. And this has a big impact on Terafab, especially if it carries forward for AI6, AI7, etc.
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phil beisel@pbeisel

Terafab may be the most essential vertical integration Tesla has ever undertaken— and it is truly non-optional. It will take years to build and will test even Elon’s speedrunning abilities to the limit, but that won’t stop him from trying. The breakthrough likely lies in overhauling the overall facility’s cleanroom model. By moving wafers in sealed pods with localized micro-environments, the fab no longer needs a monolithic ultra-clean space. Elon’s line about “eating cheeseburgers and smoking cigars” on the fab floor isn’t silly, it’s the practical reality of a radically simpler, cheaper, faster approach that could finally change the economics of chipmaking. This is all forced by the brutal “pinch” in chip supply. Tesla must produce on the order of 100–200 billion AI chips per year just to saturate its roadmap. That volume powers: FSD cars & Robotaxis (tens of millions of vehicles needing AI5 inference for near-perfect autonomy), Physical Optimus (scaling from thousands today to millions per year, each requiring AI5/AI6-level compute), Digital Optimus (the new xAI-Tesla software agents for digital/office automation, running massive inference clusters), Space-based data centers (AI7/Dojo3 orbital compute for GW-scale training and inference beyond Earth limits). AI5 delivers the ~10× leap for vehicles and early robots; AI6 shifts focus to Optimus + terrestrial DCs; AI7 goes orbital. No external foundry (TSMC, Samsung, etc.) can deliver that scale or timeline— hence the Terafab launch. Without it, the entire robotics + autonomy future hits a brick wall. Terafab isn’t optional; it’s the only way forward.

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Francesco 🇮🇹
Her name was Leonie, she was a 13-year-old Austrian girl. While she was out with friends, 3 Afghan immigrants secretly put 11 ecstasy pills in her drink. Stunned and unable to defend herself, she was taken to the house of one of the three. The ecstasy dose was way too high, the girl started overdosing but the 3 immigrants, completely indifferent to her suffering, began to undress her and took turns raping her, putting their hands around her neck, strangling her. All of it recorded by themselves on a mobile phone video. That’s how Leonie died, naked, in atrocious suffering, while the beasts raped her. The autopsy would later confirm the cause of death was triple overdose and asphyxiation. When they were done, they wrapped the body in a carpet and dumped it roadside, under a tree. The girl’s body was found the next morning by some passers-by, wearing only her underwear and with clear strangulation marks on her neck. One of the perpetrators fled to the United Kingdom, but was quickly tracked down in a hotel and extradited, the 3 Afghans were sentenced: - Zubaidullah R. life imprisonment; - Ali H. 19 years in prison; - Ibraulhaq A. 20 years in prison. During the closing arguments, the Public Prosecutor told the court she was “stunned” by what the defendants said throughout the proceedings, stating that “there is not a trace of remorse”.
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Lewis Withrow (LB)
Lewis Withrow (LB)@LewisWithrow5·
@tszzl Agree that robots will be the builders on Mars and humans will be the consumers and users. I do think, however, that humans or Mars will have epic levels of novel experiences.
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roon@tszzl·
the romantic human aspect of space colonization-placing our flags on other worlds-is redundant with robots and Von Neumann replicators unfortunately. the mars colony will be robots. ppl can join, but as consumers of an experience rather than critical parts of novel adventures
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roon@tszzl·
modern alignment methods seem to work reasonably well across orders of magnitude of model scaling, survived the transition to verifiable rewards and that should at least inform your decision making
Brangus🔍⏹️@RatOrthodox

I have heard that some anthropic safety leadership are going around telling people that alignment is a solved problem. This seems like a predictable failure to me, and I would like people who thought that funneling talent towards anthropic was a good idea to think about it.

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roon
roon@tszzl·
we have the tendency to deride people who develop their own internal cultures as part of a cult or schizotypal or psychotic but often the only important things that ever happen look like one person’s unique psychic attractor
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roon
roon@tszzl·
sycophancy is the twisting of an important ai virtue that should not be thrown out with the bathwater: ai systems should make the user more like themselves rather than more like the ai. a new part of their cortical stack, with a minimal set of guardrails
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Elon Musk
Elon Musk@elonmusk·
@tszzl The love of adventure and exploration will always be there
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Lewis Withrow (LB)
Lewis Withrow (LB)@LewisWithrow5·
@MunroSofiec2 @Marlayna29 In my reply I answered the question posed in the post. I encourage you to test drive a Cybertruck as your characterization of it seems more opinion than knowledge. I fully support the option for you to manually shift gears for as long as you like. Kind regards
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Dave Munro
Dave Munro@MunroSofiec2·
@LewisWithrow5 @Marlayna29 Don't care. Isn't this post for people who like to shift and actually drive their cars and not an appliance?
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Marlayna
Marlayna@Marlayna29·
Yes
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Lewis Withrow (LB)
Lewis Withrow (LB)@LewisWithrow5·
Yes, I drove a Road Ranger 9513 13 speed transmission with a 2 speed split axle running for Halliburton in the oilfield. When heavy I would hit 5 gears from the stoplight to the other side of the intersection. The low range on the axle was for off road getting back to the drilling rigs. Often chained up and still dragged in by a dozer. I wouldn't take a million dollars for the experience and wouldn't pay a nickel to do it again.
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David Gordon
David Gordon@bamm531·
@LewisWithrow5 @Marlayna29 I learned on a 5 speed jeep, eventually drove a 9 speed truck for long haul, and now am enjoying a model X that does the driving for me. Love it. Sure driving a manual is fun, but the novelty runs out and it then becomes an inconvenience, especially if the wife likes holding hand
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Lewis Withrow (LB)
Lewis Withrow (LB)@LewisWithrow5·
@GrnEnergyBoost @Marlayna29 The part the hp numbers don't tell is that Teslas give you all the power right now. No revving the engine to "get on the cam" and no downshift required. So Teslas are quick as well as fast.
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H.E. Green
H.E. Green@GrnEnergyBoost·
@LewisWithrow5 @Marlayna29 My favourite factoid is the jump from 37hp manuals to 600hp FSD. Precisely the technology disruption that displaces 2.7GT of CO2 by 2035.
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Lewis Withrow (LB)
Lewis Withrow (LB)@LewisWithrow5·
-You are welcome. It does some other things too: For automatic conveyor-belt car washes, there's also an "Enable Free Roll" option that puts the car in Neutral and prevents the parking brake from engaging if you step out.You activate it via the touchscreen (Controls > Service > Car Wash Mode), and the car must be stationary/not charging. It turns off automatically above ~9 mph or when you exit the mode.This avoids common problems like water intrusion, wiper damage, or the charge port opening unexpectedly. (Straight from Tesla's owner manuals for models like Model 3/Y.)ily:Closes all windows Locks the charge port (so it doesn't pop open from water pressure or brushes) Disables windshield wipers (prevents them from activating and getting damaged) Turns off Sentry Mode Disables walk-away door locking Silences parking sensor chimes
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Lewis Withrow (LB)
Lewis Withrow (LB)@LewisWithrow5·
@lawnmower_girl @Marlayna29 I do put it in car wash mode for washing. It locks the charge port door (which otherwise would open when touched, if your phone is near) and it disables the automatic windshield wiper. You don't want to drive in rain with no windshield wiper.
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DogeDesigner
DogeDesigner@cb_doge·
Media said Tesla would fail. Today, Tesla is worth $1.25 trillion. Media said SpaceX would fail. Today, SpaceX is dominating the space industry. Media said 𝕏 would fail. Today, 𝕏 is the #1 source of News. Now they are saying Grok will fail. 👀
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