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https://xitter.twitterapi.xyz/t.co/mtsgLYqwNY The future is robots Prev. Physical Intelligence @physical_int, @Google, @Meta, @Microsoft

Palo Alto, CA
Joined July 2008
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Who is going to make the Napster of AI agents? These restrictions are BS and we need someone to stand up and start circumventing them.
All personal AI assistants have been banned from United Airlines systems, and from booking flights.
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This is the *real* test of AI alignment. Is the AI aligned with them, or with me?
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Anyone else have this toy when they were a kid and not know what it was?
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I was a Fi subscriber back when they used to do this with Sprint and T-Mobile. Recently T-Mobile has been leaving me without working data service way too often. Verizon should plug those holes.
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I would probably eat these by the truckload if they weren't inexplicably banana flavored
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oh apparently these are a thing actually? never seen them in my life
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Does Japanese voice acting always sound better because Japanese voice actors are better? Or is it just as cringe as the English voice acting and I can't tell because I don't understand the words?
Everyone should just play the game in Japanese. The entire cast sounds perfect, especially Navi. Everytime she talks it's extremely cute.
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Wow the HN comments on Cybertruck being discontinued are... not entirely a dumpster fire? Is the internet healing?
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Food delivery apps are having insane promos all the time these days. Especially with the credit card partnerships. If you only use them a couple of times a month you can get food delivered for much less than it would cost in the restaurant.
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Interesting reaction by the markets today. Nvidia down, Amazon up. Are people betting that datacenter construction will go down but existing datacenters will be more valuable?
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This time will probably be remembered as the start of the New Luddite movement.
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Besides SpaceX's data centers, the easiest thing to obstruct politically is the upcoming Starlink cellular service. The big three carriers were already gearing up to lobby against it and they'll take advantage. For Tesla, it'll be the robotaxi rollout. xitter.twitterapi.xyz/Darpinian/status/21178…
Replying to @SawyerMerritt
The democrats will be looking for revenge on Elon, though, and they're going to take it out on Tesla and SpaceX. The government can do a lot to obstruct their operations.
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People are confused about why it costs more to have insurance cover medication than to pay cash. It's straightforward actually. Somebody decided to cap insurance company profit as a percentage of cost. What do you do if you're an insurance company and you want more profit?
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It's even worse actually. They didn't just cap profit, but all administrative costs, including salary for healthcare executives. What do you do if you're a healthcare executive and you want a raise?
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The midwit take is the evil profit motive is the problem, and socialism the solution. In truth, socialism doesn't change human nature. People will still exploit the system. The realistic solution is aligning incentives. Profit and quality care don't have to be at odds!
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How does Amazon not have *any* 18650 batteries with Prime delivery? I thought these things were standard.
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Claude did an incredible job typesetting it in HTML and generating a title image
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Crazy that Google accumulated $100B in cash, then discovered the most lucrative capital-intensive business ever. Being uniquely positioned to scale as the only vertically integrated player in AI datacenters, they… …did stock buybacks. Then raised a bunch of debt. 🤔
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Absolutely insane that Google didn't invest that cash in a huge TPU buildout from 2020-2024. Real lack of confidence in their own business. Too afraid of Wall Street analysts.
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OK maybe 2020 was too early to see this, but by 2022 it was obvious.
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