Max Little

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Max Little

Max Little

@MaxLittle92

Electrical Engineering Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Toronto Weather Neophyte

Toronto Katılım Ocak 2011
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Max Little
Max Little@MaxLittle92·
If you are here due to a discord account on Force Thirteen called "Max Little #0702" note that this is NOT ME. Please report whoever that is for being dumb enough to steal the identity of a guy with NO CREDENTIALS and under 500 followers.
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Max Little@MaxLittle92·
@infraa_ The other way to see it is the government essentially taxed about 6000 working hours per person since 1980 indirectly through debasement instead of explicitly through taxes.
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Robert (infra 🏛️⌛️)@infraa_·
This is why the debt can never be repaid *in real terms* It will almost certainly be repaid in *nominal terms*, but looking at the debt in terms of human labor shows the true scale of the problem
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Max Little@MaxLittle92·
@InlandCaGuy All they have to do is make it so when you borrow against an asset, it counts as realizing the gain at the collateralized price. You owe tax immediately, it resets the cost basis, and then if it depreciates in the future you book it as a capital loss.
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Max Little@MaxLittle92·
@Empty_America 50 man-hours at 30$/hr plus $500 for materials, depreciation on tools, overhead, etc. seems pretty reasonable. If it takes less time the workers are more skilled and deserve a higher hourly.
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Max Little@MaxLittle92·
@lymanstoneky Main reason for humanoid robots is to easily work around existing infrastructure, so there likely will be a good niche for them for quite awhile. I do think eventually robots end up more like self-organizing grey goo, where they take whatever shape/form the task requires.
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Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬
Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬@lymanstoneky·
"have a boutique robot for every single use case will be more efficient than generalist humanoid robots the factory can sell for 5,000 different use cases" is this really the take? do we really think robotics as they exist now are actually peak performance?
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Max Little
Max Little@MaxLittle92·
@DerekPederson3 I guess it also depends on what you define as interstellar travel. There is a big gulf between "container of tiny self-replicating robots propelled by a solar-powered laser station" to "anything that gets humans there alive, even generation-ship style."
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Derek Pederson 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇻🇪
Derek Pederson 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇻🇪@DerekPederson3·
Most of the responses I am getting are ambiguous historical analogies and criticisms of me for not “dreaming big” rather than attempts to answer the very serious questions about why this may just not be possible.
Derek Pederson 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇻🇪@DerekPederson3

Science fiction nerds are gonna hate me for saying this but the Great Filter is that interstellar travel is probably more or less impossible and there is no reason to come up with any other explanation for that.

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Max Little@MaxLittle92·
@burkov I am not sure where the practical limit is but it is my biggest fear w.r.t AI: we don't get takeoff or relegation to a gimmick. Instead, we get infinite slop which is "good enough" to displace many humans economically and artistically.
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Max Little@MaxLittle92·
@burkov I think you can reduce the occurrence of this by feeding the initial answer back through another instance of the LLM to try and pick out inconsistencies and then retry if any are seen. Basically, burn more compute, which is what I understand "reasoning" models are doing anyways.
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BURKOV@burkov·
Always remember that when an LLM prints the beginning of a text, it has no idea what the end will be. Therefore, when it says "The answer is yes, and this is why:" the text after "why" would most likely be a very elaborate lie combined with gaslighting in case "yes" was the wrong answer.
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Max Little
Max Little@MaxLittle92·
@DerekPederson3 I think even with technology just a bit beyond today's it is more a motivation issue than a capability issue. You would basically turn large comets into generation ships using their internal volatiles for reaction mass and supplies.
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Derek Pederson 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇻🇪
Derek Pederson 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇻🇪@DerekPederson3·
Science fiction nerds are gonna hate me for saying this but the Great Filter is that interstellar travel is probably more or less impossible and there is no reason to come up with any other explanation for that.
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Max Little@MaxLittle92·
@mcuban You can't have a free market when "walking away" means death or debilitation. You might get away with it for primary care (family doctors) but hospitals would basically turn into neo-feudal entities extracting rent from their catchment areas in exchange for access to care.
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Mark Cuban@mcuban·
Ok. Take government completely out of healthcare. No rules. No laws. No Medicare. No Medicaid. Hospitals, insurance companies, can do anything they want. What do they do ? If you were running any of the biggest insurance companies or hospitals, what would you do differently once gov was completely out of healthcare ?
Matthew Bednarik@BednarikMatt

@mcuban @GovBillLee Or just let the free market compete and get the government out of Healthcare. A free market would inevitably lead to lower costs for consumers.

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Max Little@MaxLittle92·
@portraitinflesh It is interesting to see what was mostly missed by mid-20th century science fiction writers versus what they expected that never happened. From my experience they overestimated nuclear power, humanoid robots and space travel but almost completely missed the internet.
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Tomos Doran 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🇵🇸@portraitinflesh·
I'm currently reading Asimov's The Caves of Steel, for the first time since I was a child, and it's fascinating on so many levels. I am legitimately enjoying it as a novel, because the man *could* write, but so many things about it now land very oddly, from a 2020s point of view.
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Max Little@MaxLittle92·
@Empty_America Too bad the particles in Saturn's rings are more micrometer-sized than mountain-sized - "The Martian Way" is a great classic Sci-Fi example of this. Common slow interstellar method is to take a large comet and use some of the hydrogen for fusion fuel and reaction mass.
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VB Knives@Empty_America·
Ironically, the civilization that expands into endless space will exist in a world of caverns and tunnels. Most realistic plans to avoid deadly radiation involve boring and tunneling, both into planetary surfaces and also asteroids. The "ships" may end up *being* asteroids.
Rex Thundercock@rexthundercock

Getting machines like this to the moon and mars, along with power to sustain them, is the ultimate test. Can you even imagine the scale of what we could build with tunnel bores and robotic cranes on the lunar or Martian surface using the regolith there?

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Max Little@MaxLittle92·
@CartoonsHateHer They are just jealous because they are not smart enough to do the "fake" email jobs without 5000 years of patriarchy (and racism) thinning out the competition.
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Cartoons Hate Her!@CartoonsHateHer·
My favorite part of this discourse is that a lot of the guys who are like "men do back breaking physical labor so women can have their fake email jobs" also, in fact, have fake email jobs and are not performing any physical labor.
Jeremiah Johnson 🌐@JeremiahDJohns

.@CartoonsHateHer nailed this last year: "A lot of men have a perplexingly reverse-SJW attitude toward women in the workplace. They believe women are part of an oppressor class, who has for some reason been granted unfair degrees of privilege in the form of being hired for fun, pretend jobs. In their mind, almost every working woman has an “email job,” specifically one that wasn’t available to men, and provides no value. Something like “Vice President of Pronouns.”

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Max Little@MaxLittle92·
@cybelethebest What even is the rush here? Just stay dating for a couple more years, finish growing up, and then if you are still together and happy when you are adults just get married then. Some sort of degenerate ephebophile LARP going on here I guess.
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Max Little@MaxLittle92·
@defnotbeka No I mean if they have low enough prices to have the effect you want they probably could never sell enough food to make it worthwhile.
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Rebecca Valentine@defnotbeka·
@MaxLittle92 perhaps due to popularity, sure. i mean, the US is very car centric meaning sit down has to be worth it and so it has to be more expensive usually
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Rebecca Valentine
Rebecca Valentine@defnotbeka·
this isnt really true tho? fast food places make french fries in large batches, fried chicken in large batches, they make their burgers in large batches, their buns, etc. they assemble/package one at a time, but assembly is not inefficient at all, it's very fast
(• ˕ •マ.ᐟ ★@Y40IFRQTTING

What the western world is missing really is diners that prepare a large batch of the same food and sell it for cheap. Fast food is the opposite of this where tiny batches of food are prepared as fast as possible upon an order. That is a distinctly American form of inefficiency.

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Max Little@MaxLittle92·
@defnotbeka Those cafeteria style diners would not be able to make enough money to justify the real estate cost basically.
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Max Little@MaxLittle92·
@danae_hudlow Pretty sure the progression is "I need to save $4000 a month to have a chance at buying a house, I can only save $3000 eating kraft dinner every meal, prices are not going down - might as well rent and spend the $3000 on consumption since we are never going to own a home anyway."
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Danae Hudlow@danae_hudlow·
When I saw Kevin O'Leary criticizing Gen Z for their $28 lunches, I was inclined to argue, because I'm a millennial who remembers being accused of financial insolvency due to avocado toast. But these posts saying "What else are we supposed to eat for lunch?!" have me rethinking.
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Schizo Advisors@SchizoLLC·
@MaxLittle92 @christapeterso The wild thing is that basically every war in the 20th century is downstream of WWI, and Vietnam has its own direct link. There’s be no WWII, no post-colonialism, likely no Soviet Union/Cold War.
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Max Little@MaxLittle92·
@SchizoLLC @christapeterso WW1 was mostly bullshit but between the Zimmerman telegram and U-boat attacks there was a credible threat to the USA. More so than Vietnam or even Korea, and way above Iraq and any potential ground invasion in Iran now.
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Schizo Advisors@SchizoLLC·
@MaxLittle92 @christapeterso Remember that the key SC ruling that allows the draft despite an explicit 13th amendment prohibition on it took place during WWI, which was easily a war we had no business in.
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Max Little@MaxLittle92·
@christapeterso I think it also relies on a social contract where you will not be sent to fight a random proxy war halfway around the world. There is a big difference from a Russian or U.K soldier being drafted to help stop Hitler in WW2 and someone from the USA being sent to Vietnam in 1968.
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worms cited
worms cited@christapeterso·
Mass conscription relies on a normative and cultural framework of duty to serve your country when called. Art can’t do everything but it has cultural power
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