Thursday, May 15, 2025

More on humanoid robots -- who ya gonna believe?

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According to Elon Musk (whose fortune now largely rests on the perceived earnings potential of robots and AI), humanoid robots that can imme...
Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Possible Papal Posts

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      Anti-papal Catholics I've been talking about this for years now, and I was sure that I had written numerous posts on the subject, ...
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Tuesday, May 13, 2025

“How come I can’t breathe at home and y’all get to breathe at home?”

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Ariel Wittenberg writing for Politico .  MEMPHIS, Tennessee — Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company is belching smog-forming pollutio...
Monday, May 12, 2025

A leftist filmmaker is interviewed in a leftist magazine about his recent pro-nuclear documentary

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Another one that got somehow left behind in the queue.  I'm not going to go into the merits of the arguments or of the film itself, othe...
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Friday, May 9, 2025

How can we say that Flow is a bad idea if Andreessen Horowitz invested a third of a billion dollars in it?

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“Here’s my idea for a new business.” “That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. The business model is crap. The potential market is tiny. ...
Thursday, May 8, 2025

Josh Marshal's understating how dysfunctional the titans of Silicon Valley have become

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 I find myself in the odd position of disagreeing rather strongly with a recent post by Josh Marshall. Not about any major conclusion, and ...
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Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Another one for the lexicon: deerstalker

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  A deerstalker is a belief which is: 1. Held by the general public; 2. Discounted by the moderately well-informed; 3. Known to be true by e...
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Tuesday, May 6, 2025

A few years ago Morgan Stanley released an analysis promising that the metaverse would soon be worth more than $5 trillion dollars. Their latest one on humanoid robots may not rise to that level of prescience.

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Guys, we've been pointing out bubbles here at the blog for well over a decade now and, trust me, this is a bubble Just as it did in resp...
Monday, May 5, 2025

Surprisingly, despite Elon Musk's involvement, this may turn out to be a scam.

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Like the Metaverse, like Musk’s humanoid robots and brain implants and eugenics and Mars colonization, you realize these guys aren’t crea...
Friday, May 2, 2025

The Cylon (TOS) Design Fallacy

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Just to be clear, I'm talking about these Cylons...   ... not these Cylons. In the pilot of the original Battlestar Galactica , Apollo a...
Thursday, May 1, 2025

I hate to reschedule "The Cylon (TOS) Design Fallacy" yet again, but we had a big news day on the Tesla front

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I've got some real posts coming up on Elon's Optimus and the humanoid robot bubble, with any luck starting tomorrow, but the last th...
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Sometimes it's useful and I think healthy to imagine trying to explain the news of 2025 to the you of 2015.

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Donald Trump is doing everything he can to ensure the Conservative Party will lose today’s election in Canada. [image or embed] — Republican...
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Will the robotaxi business really be worth $443 billion to Tesla?

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As discussed previously, one of the ten largest corporations in the world by valuation is a failing car company with small and rapidly decli...
Monday, April 28, 2025

#SummerOfScarcity

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If you're selective with social media and limit yourself to following smart, savvy—in the good sense—people (which now pretty much means...