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Robby Grossman retweeted
Trial lawyers are lobbying against self-driving cars because they're too safe. They need people to be killed and injured so that they have material for lawsuits.
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Andrej Karpathy told Elon Musk that Tesla will grow from $45B to $1.5T using AI - while competitors spent billions doing it the old way
after this presentation Tesla's stock dropped 3.9%
Karpathy stood up and explained why every competitor will lose
"lidar is a crutch - it sidesteps the fundamental problem "
Musk: "every mile driven is training the network - whether autopilot is on or off "
simply because every single driver was training Tesla's model for free
that $45B company is now worth $1.5T
Waymo spent $27 billion. Tesla spent $0 on data collection
then Andrej left Tesla and joined Anthropic - to build their competitor
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Jim Rogers found one strategy that made him 4,200% with George Soros in 10 years: buy what everyone is afraid to touch
with it - he has traded through 6 global crash in history
right now he's doing the opposite - shorting AI while everyone is buying
everyone said Austria has no stock market - he flew there and bought every single stock
everyone said Zimbabwe is a disaster - he bought it
everyone is buying gold right now - so he is buying silver
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Robby Grossman retweeted
It can all be so much more beautiful. Even the simple things... the soaps, the sinks, the lamps, and even the door knobs. All of it could delight us, if only we cared a little more.
The problem isn't a lack of money. The problem is apathy. Making something beautiful begins with the decision to elevate your standards and commit to making something beautiful, and our culture has forgotten that simple fact. Until we raise our sights again, we'll be trapped in a dull existence of flat surfaces, lifeless white walls, and mass-produced objects that have no soul.
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Trump is basically asserting that he has the power to arrest and deport anyone -- even a U.S. citizen -- and immediately send them to a foreign prison where the U.S. court system can never touch them again.
That is the power of a dictator.
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Robby Grossman retweeted
We are partnering with @TheFIREorg to stand up for free speech in the face of recent government actions against critics of U.S. foreign policy.
We will work to protect writers who are targeted in this way.
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The New York Times now acknowledges that many university professors and administrators have been liberal ideologues rather than seekers of truth. When will they admit that their own reporters and editors have been too?
In an editorial in @nytopinion today correctly criticizing the Trump admin attacks on universities, the editors make a remarkable admission: "many professors and university administrators acted in recent years as liberal ideologues rather than seekers of empirical truth. 1/
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If you haven't decided yet who to vote for, here's why I think you should vote for Harris.
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If you don't understand how inescapably primal our leadership preferences are now, you never will.
Robby Grossman retweeted
When you first write part of an essay it tends to flow very well. Then you notice things you overlooked, and you have to go back and insert them. This usually ruins the flow. Fixing this — recreating the old flow with the new ideas — is one of the hardest parts of writing.
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At a certain point you’re just using political power to steal stuff. The US and other western countries aren’t Russia yet, but let’s not slide in that direction.
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third world banana republic tier stuff going on
terrorize your industrialists when they don’t toe your party line even in the case of companies that clearly advance the strategic interests of the country
disgusting
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I lost my wife to cancer last month — our daughter lost her mother. I’ve hesitated sharing any of this, but there is something I want to record. Fair warning: this is mostly about love.
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As a professor who favors free speech on campus, I can sympathize with the "nuanced" answers given by U. presidents yesterday, about whether calls to attack or wipe out Israel violate campus speech policies.
What offends me is that since 2015, universities have been so quick to punish "microaggressions," including statements intended to be kind, if even one person from a favored group took offense. The presidents are now saying: "Jews are not a favored group, so offending or threatening Jews is not so bad. For Jews, it all depends on context." We might call this double standard "institutional anti-semitism."
University presidents: If you're not going to punish students for calling for the elimination of Israel and Israelis, it's OK with me, but ONLY if you also immediately dismantle the speech policing apparatus and norms you created in 2015-2016. Please read The Coddling of the American Mind. @glukianoff and I laid out exactly where the oppressor/victim frame came from (ch. 3), how it spread out of a few departments to gain power over administrators and campus culture (chapters 4 and 5), and how it drove the creation of the bureaucratic structures and processes that now have us all teaching and learning on eggshells (ch. 10). In chapter 13 we offer advice to leaders on how to to return universities to their academic mission and regain public trust.
The presidents of @Harvard, @MIT, and @Penn were all asked the following question under oath at today’s congressional hearing on antisemitism:
Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate [your university’s] code of conduct or rules regarding bullying or harassment?
The answers they gave reflect the profound moral bankruptcy of Presidents Gay, Magill and Kornbluth.
Representative @EliseStefanik was so shocked with the answers that she asked each of them the same question over and over again, and they gave the same answers over and over again.
In short, they said:
It ‘depends on the context’ and ‘whether the speech turns into conduct,’ that is, actually killing Jews.
This could be the most extraordinary testimony ever elicited in the Congress, certainly on the topic of genocide, which to remind us all is:
“the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group”
The presidents’ answers reflect the profound educational, moral and ethical failures that pervade certain of our elite educational institutions due in large part to their failed leadership.
Don’t take my word for it.
You must watch the following three minutes. By the end, you will be where I am.
They must all resign in disgrace.
If a CEO of one of our companies gave a similar answer, he or she would be toast within the hour.
Why has antisemitism exploded on campus and around the world?
Because of leaders like Presidents Gay, Magill and Kornbluth who believe genocide depends on the context.
To think that these are the leaders of Ivy League institutions that are charged with the responsibility to educate our best and brightest.
On the bright side, our congressional leaders deserve accolades for showing tremendous leadership and moral clarity in their statements, by the questions they asked, and the respectfulness with which they conducted the hearing.
It was a masterclass of how our government and democracy should operate.
If you have time, please watch the entire hearing. Throughout the hearing, the three behaved like hostile witnesses, exhibiting a profound disdain for the Congress with their smiles and smirks, and their outright refusal to answer basic questions with a yes or no answer.