Kevin Clark

@DaveBlundin What % of cars using FSD gets 98% of the safety? Just the economic incentives alone may get us there without the legislation.

A major paradigm shift will be how we think about driving. Today most Americans spend hours a day driving their cars but in the not so distant future I think it will be completely illegal to drive. AI self-driving will be so conclusively safer parents will never allow their kids and family members to drive or trust others to drive on the road around them.

@clairlemon @S___Elliott Didn't see that coming

@S___Elliott The Shining.

Movies are that are better than the book: No Country For Old Men Goodfellas The Godfather Strangers On A Train

@paul_jkrause Tolstoy for real literature and depth. Dostevsky for impressing your shallow college friends

The Brothers Karamazov or Crime and Punishment, which is the better read?

@libsoftiktok Cut the NY government payroll 50% and use that. It will work for a minute.

Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) complains that wealthy people are ABANDONING New York for Republican states like Florida and Texas to avoid oppressive taxes that fund her "generous" social programs She's PISSED they are no longer "captives" in her state.

@miles_commodore "Give up" is right. I'm not a formal guy, but I dislike where we've gone.

When did we give up as a society wearing proper attire?

@MbarkCherguia Wood plane

People keep guessing, but no one gets it right. Do you know what this is? 🤔

@Rainmaker1973 1973

Based on the entirety of this photograph, what is your best estimation of the year it was taken?

@gmiller @PeterDiamandis No one working on AI alignment has any incentive to end AI alignment problems

@PeterDiamandis Almost nobody working on AI safety thinks that the AI alignment problem will be solved by 2028. It's generally understood to be one of the hardest problems humanity has ever faced -- and may not be solvable at all. Why do you think AI alignment will be solved by 2028?

By 2028, there'll be no "AI" or "physical AI". Both will collapse & merge into: incredibly intelligent, physically capable AI aligned with human interests. The categories we argue about today will look ridiculous.

@charlesmurray Same with surgeons

A sequence that I think will be common: People approach FSD asking if they will ever be able to fully trust the software, and over time (only a few weeks in my case), feel safer driving with FSB than driving themselves.

@Rainmaker1973 Not. A. Pike.

The Pike Effect [🎞️happymicrotales]

@itsrosesm Yes.

Are you really okay with Masked ICE agents waiting outside of courts to grab illegal aliens? 🤔

@jenzhuscott …or just follow the fun. Do what interests you as a result of being curious about solutions to your own problems without regard to all that (which increasingly seems, on this platform, to be an appeal to status. Not knowledge).

@ToKTeacher @jenzhuscott Brilliant

Study as much maths, physics, neuroscience as you can. Write on your own, daily. Read poetry, philosophy, history, classical masterpieces. Go to museums/galleries to stare at art every now & then. Daily immersion in nature, even for 10 min only. Run w/out headsets or phone, only your thoughts. Listen to slow music.

@NathanJRobinson It seems to me to be the central assumption of socialism.

Socialism does not assume this and Hayek didn't know what he was talking about

@BenjaminNorton I can't know if your take is dumb or dishonest. But either way it isn't great for you.

This is insane. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio just gave one of the most explicitly pro-colonialist speeches I have seen in the 21st century. The US empire wants Europe to help it recolonize the Global South. Rubio praised Western colonialists for "settl[ing] new continents, build[ing] vast empires extending out across the globe". Then Rubio complained about the Global South's decolonization, portraying it as a sinister communist plot. Rubio lamented: "The great Western empires had entered into terminal decline, accelerated by godless communist revolutions and by anti-colonial uprisings that would transform the world and drape the red hammer and sickle across vast swaths of the map in the years to come". Rubio delivered this speech at the Munich Security Conference, surrounded by European leaders, who gave him a standing ovation. They loved the pro-colonialist diatribe. The US secretary of state insisted that North American and European imperialists should unite in order to reverse "the West’s managed decline", to revive "the West’s age of dominance", to "renew the greatest civilization in human history". This is a blatant call by the US empire to resuscitate Western colonialism and recolonize the Global South (which represents the Global Majority). What the US empire did to Gaza, Venezuela, and currently Cuba is what it wants to do to the entire Global South. This is from the official transcript published by the US State Department: state.gov/releases/offic…

@miles_commodore Nope. Nor uglier.

In the last 60 years has America made a worse car than the Ford Pinto?

@walterkirn I read them after I saw someone attribute much of his success to his skill at writing clear orders to his commanders. The memoirs are wonderful. Be like Walter. Read Grant.

For clear, strong, efficient, lightly ironic American prose, the memoirs of US Grant are unrivaled. I'm learning this later in life than I should have, but younger writer needn't make my mistake. That Grant wrote his book under the imminent pressure of a deadly cancer is astonishing but it may account for the truthfulness & economy of his style.

@miles_commodore Money, power, status. A dangerous brew.

Having a lot of money doesn't change you, it just makes you more of what you already are. If you're a natural giver, you become a bigger giver. If you're already a jerk, you become a bigger jerk.

@MarionKoopmans @DrJBhattacharya Public health leadership made terrible errors. And then doubled down repeatedly. A reasonable sense of honor would require both apologies and resignations all around. No one involved in this deserves to continue their career. No one. Apologize then resign.

@DrJBhattacharya I will give this 1 try. I am looking at your inciting tweets with astonishment. You probably group me in the box of lock down pushers. I wonder if you ever have been in a public health crisis advisory role, hospital outbreak management team, employer health

@iowahawkblog @nikitabier I think you've identified a blue ocean

@nikitabier Autistic old car identification

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