Posts by hydrocabron@mastodon.social
 (DIR) Post #ARKRGLVtyr9u5dVODY by hydrocabron@mastodon.social
       2023-01-05T09:29:09Z
       
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       @stux Saves energy, and brakes and drivetrain as complete stops are less likely than at intersections, and idling is far less likely.In areas with sparse traffic, one can go for miles without coming to a stop.
       
 (DIR) Post #ARL5mXTX2SkiccInsO by hydrocabron@mastodon.social
       2023-01-05T17:03:09Z
       
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       @stux 8000-lb vehicles cannot easily turn at 75 mph. Nor can drivers manage the contents of a 50-piece McNuggets and a 64-oz soda or latte under high centrifugal loads.Roundabouts will severly curtail pedestrian mortality, unduly burden our pension and healthcare systems, and flood our high schools and colleges with high enrollments, while bankrupting the makers of miniature caskets and cremation urns.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATQXxKuAJQYrGnmI7s by hydrocabron@mastodon.social
       2023-03-09T03:56:10Z
       
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       @stux @bass4dking I've been asking my fellow liberals why they vacation in Europe or New Zealand, since flying there is equivalent in emissions to driving an SUV there and back, meaning that they thereby basically drove an SUV across the US 3-6x.But people see those emissions as "cultural," hence not real CO2.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATY6YYeAwIi39XwFKC by hydrocabron@mastodon.social
       2023-03-12T19:27:15Z
       
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       @tante @DataDrivenMD The collapse of Theranos for did a similar service: So many respected men from think tanks and high-powered law firms - the most Stanford and Harvard among us, really - completely bought in.Hoping the bankruptcy of Twitter and Tesla drives a stake through the myth of the wizard polymath savior.But will the media learn from any of this?
       
 (DIR) Post #ATw85LALkR6mlXGIOu by hydrocabron@mastodon.social
       2023-03-24T09:37:28Z
       
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       @stux "Every possible outcome" assumes the outcome space is discrete, or modelable with solvable differential equations, and has initial conditions all of which can be known.There may be problems no "intelligence" can solve. That is, intelligence, even at unfathomable scale, does not translate to real-world dominance.If the intelligence operates in a world where random forces, or forces undetectable through available inputs, are determinative, its influence is inevitably constrained.
       
 (DIR) Post #AUx7LvekOEWlxYbbw8 by hydrocabron@mastodon.social
       2023-04-23T18:56:04Z
       
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       @KimPerales The Trumpist core is irretrievable. Progress with them will be slow - one funeral at a time.It's like the older generation in postwar Germany. Most thought H was just fine.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVKSHI4ICa9Bh7GJ7o by hydrocabron@mastodon.social
       2023-05-05T01:08:56Z
       
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       @lowqualityfacts This will be interesting in the future.
       
 (DIR) Post #AW7biRXbs5FE2Wlf8a by hydrocabron@mastodon.social
       2023-05-28T17:36:29Z
       
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       @GreenFire The green hydrogen car folks are so far down the rabbit hole as to live in an alternate reality, where hydrogen will become viable through amazing techological advances while no further advances will ever grace battery technology.Some of their future dreams depend on changes to the laws of physics in reducing the energy requirements of electrolysis.Hydrogen is a religion.
       
 (DIR) Post #AX3bIgrcET3xjkNfIu by hydrocabron@mastodon.social
       2023-06-24T20:54:40Z
       
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       Keep your attention fixed on the only indicator of Russian power that matters.Watch what Trump says. Within a few weeks, he will tell us who controls Russia's foreign intelligence assets and useful idiots. Watch who he praises.#Russia
       
 (DIR) Post #AX3bOoDhnKvaI0d9qy by hydrocabron@mastodon.social
       2023-06-23T20:16:55Z
       
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       [asteroid impact: food chain broken; societal collapse; roving militant gangs vie for control of resources]Mastodon users: "Is this a threat to the way the fediverse has run so far? Will bad actors seize this opportunity to enact unwelcome change?"
       
 (DIR) Post #AXN1ZfxFdieciCgo7M by hydrocabron@mastodon.social
       2023-07-04T17:49:51Z
       
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       I'd be astonished at the media's ingenuous rebroadcasting of the outrageous claims for large language models (LLMs), but I've already seen their low-critical-thought acceptance of Enron, Theranos, Elon Musk and crypto.#AIHype #LLMs
       
 (DIR) Post #AZ4XN458pcwbx3HCYC by hydrocabron@mastodon.social
       2023-08-25T00:19:01Z
       
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       @lowqualityfacts My wife, Julia Stiles, was one of you 83 million followers on Twitter.