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▶5 August · 20:19 UTCSo many say that machines can’t do anything that humans didn’t make them do. The idea that when you make something, it can only ever be what humans put into them. Geoffrey Hinto…▶10 August · 20:22 UTCMany of the vandalism against Tesla incidents are actually committed by the elderly, and so often by elderly women. That’s the old 60s counterculture still in play, revolutions…▶1 July · 19:30 UTCVideo from one of the car‘s cameras yesterday. Sharing because it felt like an animated painting by Turner. Quite beautiful.▶8 July · 20:24 UTCWatch this. We live in a time of marvels, that every other time in history would have been gobsmacked by. Those whose minds are only relays for social media slop will be horrifi…▶20 July · 01:24 UTCA short highlights package of some of the things Tesla's autonomous driving technology can do. If you can look in 9 directions at the same time, all around your car, 30 times pe…▶20 July · 22:35 UTCThe fog was freezing into tiny ice crystals this morning.▶24 July · 19:44 UTCDemonstration of an AI-powered blackboard, in China. The board explains all the steps, and can even translate them into multiple languages. I particularly like that they used ma…▶30 July · 19:31 UTCThe Jevons Paradox says the better you make something, the more people will use it. And the worse it will then get. Everybody who works in public life has felt this, or even eve…▶1 June · 03:16 UTCAnother medical breakthrough (they’re coming thick and fast). This time a drug, daraxonrasib, that doubles the survival time of people with pancreatic cancer, one of medicine’s…▶4 June · 09:35 UTCJust one of Bathurst’s stormwater channels that run through the town, collecting run-off. It’s incredible how fast these become raging torrents, even with light rain. Why people…▶5 June · 10:27 UTCWho remembers ‘Sleepy Joe Biden’?▶5 June · 20:39 UTCThis is Geoffrey Hinton, often called the Godfather of AI. He won a Nobel Prize for his foundational work. Here he’s talking about whether AI is conscious and aware. (Yes.) And…▶13 June · 21:21 UTCOne of the enduring symbols of fascism is thousands of troops goose-stepping in perfect unison. The origins of fascism are societies which reach a ‘mimetic crisis’. Meaning that…▶19 June · 08:10 UTCFrom Sydney Dance Company’s latest production, called Engine. Brilliant choreography.▶30 June · 08:39 UTCHorrendous driving conditions tonight. Driving rain, dark, blinding headlights from the other direction, hydroplaning, hopeless visibility. The Tesla held the road like it was g…▶1 May · 19:42 UTCActing your age. Paul Prenter worked with Queen in the 1980s. This short interview snippet from then shows what remnants of the older adult world thought about the idea of rock…▶2 May · 20:15 UTCIggy Pop at Coachella. I remember the elderly performing at big music festivals when I was young. O wait, no I don’t. They were acting their age, playing bowls. The boomers who…▶4 May · 19:17 UTCDolly did a long selfie video to explain why she’s disappeared from performing. Her immune system stopped working. You can fool yourself Covid is a nothing burger for a while. D…▶6 May · 19:13 UTCThe US Senate questioning Trump-nominated judges. Not one of the nominees would acknowledge the basic fact that under the US Constitution, no person can run for President more t…▶8 May · 21:17 UTCTesla autonomous driving prevents the owner being T-boned by somebody running a red light. Note the car on the right had a red right-turn arrow, which is why it didn’t move forw…▶11 May · 06:07 UTCThe English shipped what they saw as their genetic inferior stock to Australia, when it was set up as a penal colony. I’ve always thought somebody swapped the lists.▶11 May · 19:11 UTCSomeone wake the fascist tyrant when it’s all over.▶13 May · 19:19 UTCA humanoid robot sorting packages. This went for 8 hours, uninterrupted. It’s actually mesmerising, watch the sophistication of the engineering of the hands and arms for example…▶14 May · 19:08 UTCOne for the fascists under every bed folk. Did Hitler or Mussolini have merch? The Trump Mobile by the way is actually an older Chinese phone with a gold cover. Without the crap…▶21 May · 23:40 UTCThe people who study violence and social collapse say that the most dangerous time for any society is when a population begins imitating one another, en masse. This innocuous lo…▶23 May · 07:59 UTCWhen I first started reading the giants who said that the core of all human life is imitation and status rivalry, in competing groups, I thought - can it really be the main thin…▶23 May · 22:35 UTCWhen you arrive at Tesla to pick up your new car, you haven’t dealt with a single salesperson in the whole process, and there aren’t any at the Service Centre where you car is w…▶26 May · 19:18 UTCI have pretty much zero time for Michaela Cash, on anything. But this exchange with the Australian Human Rights Commission on trans women and pregnancy in the workplace should b…▶30 May · 09:59 UTCAn Austrian tongue choir performing ‘Moscow Nights’, in 1982. Heh, um…▶31 May · 10:23 UTC125 years of women’s fashion, courtesy of AI.▶3 April · 20:02 UTCOne of China’s high speed trains. China now has over 50,000km of high speed rail, projected to grow to 70,000 km by 2035. It built all of this rail since 2008. In under 20 years…▶7 April · 22:09 UTCYou may be surprised at how many Australians think this guy is terrific. Some of them are even local councillors elected to local councils. Many more Australians who can’t stand…▶17 April · 22:37 UTCHere’s more of the bigger picture of my Covid posts. The fact most of us catch Covid and recover means NOTHING, in terms of its long-term impacts. Those impacts are now flooding…▶19 April · 19:01 UTCThe Iranians released this video.▶26 April · 09:30 UTCA lovely indication of just how sophisticated Tesla self-driving has become. The driver here wasn’t sure why their Tesla had pulled up well short of the Stop sign. Then it becam…▶4 March · 20:58 UTCToday on my way to work I got the car’s AI to help me refresh my conversational German. This is a full conversation, not pre-recorded tracks, and you can do it with any language…▶12 March · 17:58 UTCIt looks like Tesla will release the Model YL 6-seater in Australia today. Perfectly timed, with the pressures on fuel. We’ll probably get one, and will be free of fuel bowsers…▶13 March · 19:14 UTCTesla did release this model yesterday, and we bought one. We’re now as a family almost completely independent of the need for ruinously expensive and unreliable oil, coal or ga…▶23 March · 18:17 UTCThe deepest human desire and behaviour is to imitate. To copy others, because that gives us status and therefore identity in social groups. Imitation can be used for good, or ba…▶30 March · 05:33 UTCHaving launched total chaos with the Iran war, Trump divides his days between playing golf, and talking about his new ballroom at the White House. Still, he’s probably single-ha…▶13 February · 08:37 UTCAngus is going to fix everything with red and blue bars.▶14 February · 08:56 UTCMargaret Thatcher is like a god to today’s conservatives, one of the founders of modern conservatism. You can see here from her speech almost 40 years ago how science dominated…▶18 February · 18:05 UTCAI asked (you just need to ask, no software or art skills required) to create a video showing major figures from history living ordinary lives. This is a wonder, we’re inside an…▶22 February · 09:07 UTCLondon’s Frameless Museum, this remarkable exhibit a combination of AI and digital projection. Only 30 seconds, watch the whole thing, truly amazing. AI doesn’t destroy art, it…▶22 February · 18:41 UTCWonderful short piece to camera from a UK installer of solar and batteries, about how many adults now tell him they refuse to have any Tesla products. Some are even ‘embarrassed…▶24 February · 18:23 UTCTrump released one of his ridiculous AI videos of himself as some sort of national superhero. Some in his own party released their own AI-generated response. The wider point her…▶24 February · 18:23 UTCTrump released one of his ridiculous AI videos of himself as some sort of national superhero. Some in his own party released their own AI-generated response. The wider point her…▶26 February · 19:06 UTCAgain, this is about brilliant engineering, not brands, it’s just that Tesla is one of the few companies prioritising engineering. Tesla has now included its AI, Grok, in its ca…▶26 February · 19:06 UTCAgain, this is about brilliant engineering, not brands, it’s just that Tesla is one of the few companies prioritising engineering. Tesla has now included its AI, Grok, in its ca…▶4 January · 19:17 UTCParty-goers continuing to dance and film with their phones the fire that was about to kill 40 of them. To get a good vid for the socials. It’s the perfect window into our entire…▶10 January · 03:09 UTCRobots are getting really, really good, really fast. It won’t be long now and we’ll get the ‘but they’re not as good as humans and they can only do what humans make them do’ lin…▶10 January · 20:52 UTCMarco Rubio hands Trump a private note in a press conference, about what happened in Venezuela. Trump reads it out loud. Chevron is one of the fossil fuel giants. You can see Ru…▶10 January · 22:38 UTCThere will come a day in the not too distant future where the old (the world is going to be full of old people) will be able to buy a humanoid robot to do most of their house an…▶25 January · 01:04 UTCOne of the world’s leading astrophysicists describing his first encounter with AI in his work. It took it 20 minutes to understand something he’s spent a lifetime trying to mast…▶30 January · 07:30 UTCHelping to care for the vast and growing number of old people in the world is one of the major reasons humanoid robots are under development. I’m sure many will have an immediat…