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Wittaker Glass

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Through a Glass Darkly | Pontificus Maximus™ | Substack: https://t.co/qkoyf9oprS. See my full Twitstream @WitGlassRT.

Charlotte, NC, USA Katılım Mart 2016
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Wittaker Glass
Wittaker Glass@witglass·
“Christ is preached. And because of this I rejoice.” Philippians 1:18 (NIV)
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Elon Musk
Elon Musk@elonmusk·
Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI. AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation.
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Wittaker Glass
Wittaker Glass@witglass·
Fascinating:
Brivael - FR@brivael

Aujourd'hui grosse discussion avec mes ingés (chez Argil) sur pourquoi Elon a viré le LIDAR de ses voitures autonomes. Choix radical, moqué pendant des années, et comme d'hab il avait raison depuis le début. Le LIDAR c'est un laser qui balaye l'environnement et crache un nuage de points 3D. Sur le papier tu obtiens la géométrie exacte du monde. Dans la vraie vie c'est une verrue technologique collée sur le toit parce qu'on sait pas faire mieux avec la vision seule. Problème numéro un : ça rajoute une modalité dans le training du modèle. Ton réseau doit apprendre à fusionner vision + lidar + radar + ultrasons. Chaque capteur en plus c'est une source de désaccord à arbitrer, pas une source d'info supplémentaire. Sensor fusion artisanale = dette technique permanente. Problème numéro deux, la bitter lesson de Rich Sutton : scaler le compute sur une seule modalité bat systématiquement les architectures bricolées à la main. Tesla a dropé le radar, puis les ultrasons, est passé full end-to-end vision. Leur courbe sur les edge cases s'est accélérée APRÈS, pas avant. Waymo fait l'inverse et reste stuck en ops géofencée. Problème numéro trois, le plus fondamental : le LIDAR voit la géométrie, pas la sémantique. Il sait qu'il y a un truc, pas ce que c'est ni ce que ça va faire. Les derniers 9 de fiabilité sont des problèmes de cognition, pas de perception brute. Un capteur de plus résout rien, il ajoute du bruit. Sébastien Loeb balance une 208 T16 à 180 dans un chemin boueux corse sous la pluie avec zéro LIDAR. Deux yeux, un cerveau. L'évolution a donné des yeux aux prédateurs pendant 500 millions d'années, pas des lasers. Il y a une raison. Le LIDAR c'est l'équivalent du marxisme appliqué à l'économie. Une solution planifiée, centralisée, qui prétend modéliser explicitement ce qui doit émerger d'un système distribué et adaptatif. Tu remplaces l'intelligence par de la mesure, la compréhension par de la donnée, l'émergence par le contrôle. Ça rassure les ingénieurs qui veulent tout spécifier en amont, exactement comme la planif rassurait les économistes soviétiques. Et ça échoue pour les mêmes raisons : la réalité est trop riche pour être capturée par un capteur, comme elle est trop riche pour être capturée par un plan quinquennal. La vraie intelligence, celle de Hayek comme celle de Tesla, c'est de faire confiance à un système qui apprend de l'expérience plutôt que de tout pré-encoder. L'élégance d'une solution c'est son rapport signal sur complexité. Le LIDAR explose le dénominateur. Défendre le LIDAR en 2026 c'est préférer empiler des hacks plutôt que résoudre le vrai problème. C'est de la feignasserie intellectuelle maquillée en rigueur d'ingénieur. Les mêmes gens qui défendaient les systèmes experts en 2012 contre le deep learning. Ils finiront pareil. Never bet against end-to-end. Never bet against la simplicité. Never bet against Elon.

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PoIiMath
PoIiMath@politicalmath·
This is an excellent scissor event b/c Hegseth doesn't say it's a bible verse, he says it's a prayer he got from a CSAR (combat search and rescue) commander which is clearly cribbed from Pulp Fiction Hegseth says "I think it's meant to reflect Ezekiel 25:17" which... I guess it does in the sense that the Pulp Fiction Ezekiel 25:17 cribs from the actual Ezekiel 25:17 "And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them." To a serious intellectual Christian, this is all a little embarrassing that our co-religionists are unironically using the Tarantino Gospel as an actual prayer. But this is going to end up with one side saying "Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction" and the other side saying "He never said it was a Bible verse". Both these things are kind of true but trying to explain the details to someone who doesn't want to change their mind is going to be more trouble than it is worth and so we will split between these two narratives.
Clash Report@clashreport

Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction during a Pentagon sermon.

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Wittaker Glass
Wittaker Glass@witglass·
@politicalmath I usually agree with your takes, but you’ve truncated Hegseth’s explanation, which does the narrative—and the scissors—a disservice.
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Chris Freiman
Chris Freiman@cafreiman·
It’s amazing that this even needs to be said in 2026, but the collapse of communism was a good thing:
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Henry George 🔰
Henry George 🔰@Leibniz0x0·
@drantbradley Wtf are you talking about? Build fucking what? Most people should just have jobs, get married, have kids, be happy. They don't need to do any of this weird insane shit you people come up with.
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Anthony Bradley
Anthony Bradley@drantbradley·
My Latest: Most Christian parents think they’re raising “good boys.” They’re actually raising risk-averse men who avoid building anything real. The research is clear: Boys aren’t born this way. They’re trained this way.
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Devon Eriksen
Devon Eriksen@Devon_Eriksen_·
Most people think of philosophy as an abstraction that doesn't touch the real world, but they're wrong. Most real world problems are philosophy problems, and most philosophy problems are "giving things the wrong names". For example, if you call feral drug addicts "homeless people", then you can't solve the problem. You can only buy more houses for feral drug addicts to destroy. In this case, we called the police and courts the "justice system". But they're not. They can't be the justice system. The function of a justice system would be to give everyone what they deserve. Now, I deserve a hundred million dollars, a private Caribbean island, and a foot massage from Lauren Bacall in her prime, but I don't see the "justice" system lifting a finger to correct any of this, do you? No, what we are supposed to have is a public safety system. The function of a public safety system is to keep the public and their property safe. If we understood that, we wouldn't care about what criminals deserve. We would care how likely they are to do it again. Or something worse. In a public safety system, retardation and mental illness are not migrating factors. They are the opposite. Because they mean that the criminal is more likely to pose a future threat. We all understand this. We all understand that the feral retard who stabs strangers on the train for being White and beautiful is a worse person than the man who murders his wife and her lover when he catches them in the act. Not because of some abstract calculus of moral agency, of who is disadvantaged and who isn't, but because one is certainly going to murder more people if he can, while the other is a lot less likely to. We've known for centuries, if not millennia, that it's the same small percentage of people doing all the robbing, raping, and murdering, over and over and over again. And we've known for centuries that if you physically remove them from society, that's 100% effective in stopping them from doing it again. The only hurdle is philosophical. Call it a "justice" system, and you have to argue endlessly about morality and redemption, and then some leftie thug-hugger weaponizes your own Christianity against you. Call it public safety, and you confine the argument to likelihood of reoffense. Then you are in the realm of statistics. Which you can compute. It all starts with naming things correctly, according to their actual nature.
New York Post@nypost

Crazed homeless man accused of slaughtering Iryna Zarutska on train found incompetent to stand trial trib.al/GsJMZC8

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Purely African
Purely African@TheRealAssasn·
How do you look at this Purely African black statue and still say ancient Egyptians were European or Arab are you mad?
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Coin Post
Coin Post@CoinPostMedia·
Reminder: Mississippi, the poorest state in the United States, is richer than the United Kingdom. 2024 GDP per capita: Mississippi $53,872, UK $52,423.
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Polymarket
Polymarket@Polymarket·
JUST IN: New analysis reveals Brits thought the UK ranked 7th against US states in income per person — it actually ranked 51st.
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Purely African
Purely African@TheRealAssasn·
This is how Ancient Egyptians depicted themselves in paintings, does this look European or Arab to you? They are Purely African.
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Tandy
Tandy@dantypo·
Swalwell will get his full pension & benefits Claudine Gay gets $900k a year as a continuing professor at Harvard Andrew McCabe is receiving his full pension & benefits Peter Strzok not only receives his full pension but also $1.2 million They pay no price They just cash out
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Wittaker Glass
Wittaker Glass@witglass·
@allenanalysis Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You lying fool.
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Brian Allen
Brian Allen@allenanalysis·
BREAKING: Tulsi Gabbard just referred the whistleblower who triggered Trump’s first impeachment for criminal prosecution. Also referred: the Inspector General who called the complaint credible. Let that sink in. The government is now prosecuting people for telling the truth about the President. This is not normal. This is a purge.
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