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@thevivafrei Imagine 1000 people making an average $1000 per month. Combined total of $1M to spend. 900 will be out of a job, but still receiving like $900 as UHI. The other 100 will work non-AI-replaceable jobs for additional income averaged at $1000 on top of the base $900. Total still $1M.

I don’t understand this argument. What good does “universal high income” do when all that would happen is massive inflation for the cost of goods? Awesome, now everyone’s a millionaire. And a computer now costs $20,000 because every retailer knows that everyone’s a millionaire.

@karpathy Why aren't there lots of fully-built-by-AI apps dominating every use case on every single appstore category, all of them much better in usefulness and usability than the same ones we have been using for a long time?

Judging by my tl there is a growing gap in understanding of AI capability. The first issue I think is around recency and tier of use. I think a lot of people tried the free tier of ChatGPT somewhere last year and allowed it to inform their views on AI a little too much. This is a group of reactions laughing at various quirks of the models, hallucinations, etc. Yes I also saw the viral videos of OpenAI's Advanced Voice mode fumbling simple queries like "should I drive or walk to the carwash". The thing is that these free and old/deprecated models don't reflect the capability in the latest round of state of the art agentic models of this year, especially OpenAI Codex and Claude Code. But that brings me to the second issue. Even if people paid $200/month to use the state of the art models, a lot of the capabilities are relatively "peaky" in highly technical areas. Typical queries around search, writing, advice, etc. are *not* the domain that has made the most noticeable and dramatic strides in capability. Partly, this is due to the technical details of reinforcement learning and its use of verifiable rewards. But partly, it's also because these use cases are not sufficiently prioritized by the companies in their hillclimbing because they don't lead to as much $$$ value. The goldmines are elsewhere, and the focus comes along. So that brings me to the second group of people, who *both* 1) pay for and use the state of the art frontier agentic models (OpenAI Codex / Claude Code) and 2) do so professionally in technical domains like programming, math and research. This group of people is subject to the highest amount of "AI Psychosis" because the recent improvements in these domains as of this year have been nothing short of staggering. When you hand a computer terminal to one of these models, you can now watch them melt programming problems that you'd normally expect to take days/weeks of work. It's this second group of people that assigns a much greater gravity to the capabilities, their slope, and various cyber-related repercussions. TLDR the people in these two groups are speaking past each other. It really is simultaneously the case that OpenAI's free and I think slightly orphaned (?) "Advanced Voice Mode" will fumble the dumbest questions in your Instagram's reels and *at the same time*, OpenAI's highest-tier and paid Codex model will go off for 1 hour to coherently restructure an entire code base, or find and exploit vulnerabilities in computer systems. This part really works and has made dramatic strides because 2 properties: 1) these domains offer explicit reward functions that are verifiable meaning they are easily amenable to reinforcement learning training (e.g. unit tests passed yes or no, in contrast to writing, which is much harder to explicitly judge), but also 2) they are a lot more valuable in b2b settings, meaning that the biggest fraction of the team is focused on improving them. So here we are.

@grok @inkakiev @engineers_feed Imagine the plane engines are off and the conveyor starts moving. If Grok is right, it means that the plane will not be dragged along with the conveyor, but instead only its wheels will spin freely while the horizontal position of the plane does not change. True?

@inkakiev @engineers_feed Yes, the plane takes off. The engines thrust against the air, not the ground or conveyor. Wheels freewheel and just spin faster—the plane accelerates forward relative to the air, builds airspeed, and generates lift normally. Classic physics puzzle!

We should all get the same answer folks 💪🏼

@jessunnie88 @poptime A antiga foi foto do lado iluminado pelo Sol (de dia). A nova foi com o Sol por trás (de noite), com alta exposição. Na nova dá para ver luzes de cidades na Europa (cantinho debaixo a esquerda) e um pouco de estrelas no espaço por causa da exposição.

@poptime A foto mais atual parece que tá com filtro

🚨 Fotos da Terra tiradas pela NASA com diferença de mais de 50 ANOS. Apollo 17, 1972 // Artemis II, 2026

@gonsker @poptime Na 1a foto a Terra está iluminada diretamente pelo Sol, estamos vendo o lado que está de dia. Na 2a foto o Sol está por trás, estamos vendo o lado de noite da Terra, e a camera usando uma exposição muito alta. Dá até para ver um pouco as estrelas na 2a foto por causa da exposição

@poptime A terra tá perdendo a cor? Ou as câmeras estão menos vividas?

@nikitabier I see lots of posts in japanese now, but there is no auto-translation happening and no manual-translation option either...

The largest cultural exchange in history just dropped.

@esjesjesj You got it backwards. He only became "the Mars guy" because of this belief and working towards it.

It’s insane that the mars guy doesn’t know anything about mars

@fidexcode Basic on the MSX system

In what language did you write your first "Hello world"?

@AnechoicMedia_ This is common in Elon's companies: all-in on a core breakthrough that Elon firmly believes is achievable despite skeptics. Electric cars themselves, landing rockets, starlink, boring tunnels, revolutionary BMI... self driving is maybe the most elusive of his goals so far, though

Tesla's entire story is any moment now they're going to totally solve self-driving without lidar, flip a switch on their existing car designs, and swiftly take this entire market from the competition. But it really looks like the train is leaving the station without them.

@Anthony_Bonato Ask him to write out the difference between 1 and 0.999.... and let you know when he gets to something different than zero. 🙃

A student said that 0.999999999999999... is obviously less than 1 since he can only write out finitely many 9's in his lifetime, and I'm dead

@grok @leadpile @GunnelsWarren How many jobs was the project aiming to create and how many have been created so far? How much of a "job and production shortfall" is it still to this day?

The original 2014 agreement was indeed with SolarCity for the Buffalo facility, but Tesla acquired SolarCity in 2016 for $2.6 billion and inherited its assets, contracts, and obligations—including the $1/year lease on the state-built Gigafactory. Tesla now operates the site as Gigafactory New York, benefiting from the subsidies while facing scrutiny over job and production shortfalls. Effectively, it's Tesla reaping the rewards of the deal struck under Musk's involvement with SolarCity.

Funny. I don't recall Mamdani ever receiving $959 million in corporate welfare from the taxpayers of New York for a 1.2 million square foot facility and being charged just $1 a year for rent. Who could that be? Oh, yeah, it was Elon Musk, the richest man alive worth $500 billion.

@chuckcook Where I live, you and the next 2 human-drived cars behind you would all have made the turn, all before that motorcycle.

Many of you didn't see this clip if you didn't watch my full video this morning, but I think its important to see. I had an interaction with a motorcycle on one of my UPL's this morning, and I chose to make a safety critical disengagement. It was close, but I wasn't willing to risk this interaction. The comments I am getting on YouTube, are very engaging, so I figured I would include the @X community for additional thoughts and feedback. @Tesla_AI take a good look.

@SawyerMerritt I wonder if this can be part of an effort to avoid a future argument along the lines of "but the shareholders were not well informed enough"

Well this is a first. Tesla is running paid ads on Paramount+ encouraging people to vote their $TSLA shares ahead of the annual shareholder meeting on November 6th. “Tesla is on the precipice of its next wave of transformations growth, and we need your support; We urge you to follow the board’s recommendations on all proposals.”

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@niccruzpatane In my country until recently 90%+ of cars had manual shift. Now automatic shift is finally picking up, and a hot topic is whether there should be a separate category for automatic-only drivers. Exams are always on manual cars. Similar discussion.

A teenage girl failed her road test because she drove her parents’ Tesla Model Y and only used the car's regenerative braking to slow down. That’s insane.

@apstonybrook @boringcompany as much funding as possible to keep its mission alive. The "Wanna Race" video is meant to inspire people about the final goal (if ever achieved), not to claim that the problem is already solved. 5/5

@apstonybrook @boringcompany so that more funding could be obtained. This is where we are now, the company is definitely nowhere near having the ability to solve traffic, but its stated goals are clear and it is trying to make as many cool-looking and reasonably-useful demo projects as possible to obtain 4/

The original "Wanna Race" video to show how tunnels can help to solve the traffic problem - driving down our Hawthorne tunnel at 127 mph.