Friday, April 18, 2025

And it makes parallel parking a breeze.

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Don't get me wrong, I enjoy mocking stupid people as much as the next guy (and possibly a little bit more than that), but it takes its t...
Thursday, April 17, 2025

For a narcissist with a messiah complex, this is actually pretty much on brand.

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As someone who's been following the career of Elon Musk for a number of years, I found this kind of surprising with respect to how far t...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

"Strauss and the war on data" was one of our most successful early posts but I would dearly love never to have another excuse to revisit it.

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 NOAA  From the NYT via LGM : President Donald Trump’s administration is seeking to end nearly all of the climate research conducted by the...
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Why, Robot?

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  [Early Optimus prototype ] When you factor in the pivotal role that Optimus plays in the weak bull case for Tesla, companies and divisions...
Monday, April 14, 2025

If you're presenting two interpretations of Musk and you literally label one of them the "real Elon," you may have revealed a slight bias

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[Smith has a good post up on capital flight. Not in any way relevant to the topic here, but I wanted to say something nice.] I read this mo...
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Friday, April 11, 2025

Patrick Boyle is the ideal choice for explaining the business of Elon Musk

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I've already referred this video in a previous post about Musk using his AI company to make himself whole after the Twitter fiasco, and ...
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Thursday, April 10, 2025

"Because it felt so good when they paused."

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 When asked why he kept writing for television despite all the aggravations, Harlan Ellison would cite the story of the moron who liked bein...
Wednesday, April 9, 2025

"The Problems With Humanoid Robots"

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Humanoid robots are certainly having their day. We are seeing a flood of articles and think pieces discussing how these mechanical men are a...
Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Sure, the whole humanoid robot thing is a scam, but at least Musk puts some effort into it.

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This just lazy. First some background . Synapse claimed to keep customer deposits in FDIC insured bank accounts, and argued that this prov...
Monday, April 7, 2025

The "we'll be okay as long as Elon is in charge" take has aged badly.

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We're going to be picking on Noah Smith a lot, and I feel genuinely bad about it. These are not crocodile tears. It seems profoundly unf...
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Friday, April 4, 2025

Is Elon stepping back to spend more time with his families?

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Probably not, and even if he does, certainly not for the reasons being given. This is a perfect Politico story, providing juicy insider deta...
Thursday, April 3, 2025

Why should robots look like us and, more to the point, why should we look like us?

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 We need a thread on robots, and within that thread, we need a thread on robots that look like people. I apologize for continuing to hammer ...
Wednesday, April 2, 2025

This seems like a good time to revisit the idea of omnicompetence

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A companion piece to Brian Klaas's secret geniuses and our Ithuvania thread. More relevant now than when Levy first wrote it. Tuesday, ...
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Reposting this one because it's April 1st and because it has one of my favorite titles

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 We haven't had much occasion to mock the education reform movement recently (Michelle Rhee hasn't had many feature stories lately)....