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- Sun Oct 12, 2025 11:01 pm
- Forum: Really General
- Topic: Best or worst idea? Getting a Velotaxi/Rikshaw for private use
- Replies: 138
- Views: 95427
Re: Best or worst idea? Getting a Velotaxi/Rikshaw for private use
I wish I lived where buying a Hopper is a good investment, looks so cool.
- Fri Oct 10, 2025 8:10 am
- Forum: Really General
- Topic: Tron:Ares
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1295
Re: Tron:Ares
My friend convinced me to see Ares tonight. Turns out this movie is actually good and far exceeded my low expectations. Easily a better movie than Legacy. They basically fixed almost everything wrong with the sequel. The pacing is excellent and the fight/stunt choreography, while still a little stif...
- Tue Sep 30, 2025 1:01 am
- Forum: Really General
- Topic: AI: thoughts, experiences, predictions
- Replies: 46
- Views: 9007
Re: AI: thoughts, experiences, predictions
...I'm looking for an alternative and I'll post about that outcome later. I've currently settled on Claude. One my areas on interest is trust in AI systems. Over the last year I've read about Anthropic's leadership and they seem like good enough people... mostly. I've also been reading Jack Clark's...
- Sat Sep 20, 2025 7:50 pm
- Forum: Really General
- Topic: Is Elon still as evil after today?
- Replies: 101
- Views: 10071
Re: Is Elon still as evil after today?
...right now both sides label the other sides as extreme of what they are wanting to do. Please explain more what you are for. I'm not going to be able to accurately explain my worldview in less than many thousands of words. In the shortest version, I'm a Utopian Humanist whose views are shaped fro...
- Sat Sep 13, 2025 5:34 pm
- Forum: Really General
- Topic: Is Elon still as evil after today?
- Replies: 101
- Views: 10071
Re: Is Elon still as evil after today?
Socialism is not the answer though, we need different levels of wealth for a functioning society, we need competition, to enable innovation. You don't even know what socialism is. It's clear you have a completely warped idea of reality due to all the capitalist propaganda you read. Socialism can't ...
- Fri Sep 12, 2025 7:14 pm
- Forum: Really General
- Topic: Is Elon still as evil after today?
- Replies: 101
- Views: 10071
Re: Is Elon still as evil after today?
It doesn't work that way, Tell me a major company, that succeeded without having a great visionary for a CEO, that lead it to massive growth and success? Your world is too small. Zildjian has a near monopoly on cymbals and all their competition is recent and not nearly as successful. I'm pretty sur...
- Sun Sep 07, 2025 2:50 am
- Forum: Really General
- Topic: Is Elon still as evil after today?
- Replies: 101
- Views: 10071
Re: Is Elon still as evil after today?
So please explain to me how I am brainwashed? We get it, you want to fellate Elon Musk. But you still believe a bunch of nonsense. For instance, you talk about "higher inflation. making our money more and more worthless, to the point were we've had to remove the penny." but people have ta...
- Wed Sep 03, 2025 10:57 pm
- Forum: Really General
- Topic: Is Elon still as evil after today?
- Replies: 101
- Views: 10071
Re: Is Elon still as evil after today?
Again, major political parties are evil right now, Elon just wants to make one that I guess is evil to protect the culture of America, before it's too late. No one is saying to start the gas chambers, just to send them back to where they came from, and only imprison that cruel ones that continue to...
- Thu Aug 28, 2025 10:43 pm
- Forum: Really General
- Topic: AI: thoughts, experiences, predictions
- Replies: 46
- Views: 9007
Re: AI: thoughts, experiences, predictions
I started this thread with a reference to the MCP protocol which enables AI agents to interface with tools and data such as websites, but I just became aware of the A2A protocol which stands for Agent to Agent. And encapsulating these is MIT's NANDA project (Networked AI Agents in Decentralized Arch...
- Fri Aug 08, 2025 5:57 pm
- Forum: Really General
- Topic: AI: thoughts, experiences, predictions
- Replies: 46
- Views: 9007
Re: AI: thoughts, experiences, predictions
I'm personally using Perplexity from time to time. Just wanted to say thanks for mentioning this tool, I've found it pretty helpful. Even though I assume every AI company is unethical, it's better when they aren't openly bad. Cloudflare recently shamed Perplexity for it's web scraping practices, bu...
- Thu Aug 07, 2025 9:36 pm
- Forum: Really General
- Topic: AI: thoughts, experiences, predictions
- Replies: 46
- Views: 9007
Re: AI: thoughts, experiences, predictions
I watched Jon Stewart's podcast... Thanks. I find Jon Stewart kind of annoying but I listened to the bits you linked. I just downloaded Andor S1 & S2 so maybe I'll watch the podcast after I binge watch that show. Also, if you are interested in revolutions see academic writer Jack Goldstone . I ...
- Thu Aug 07, 2025 9:05 pm
- Forum: Really General
- Topic: Is Elon still as evil after today?
- Replies: 101
- Views: 10071
Re: Is Elon still as evil after today?
Tesla's impact report Thanks, but I'm looking for something better than "trust me, bro". The city of Austin has denied requests for this information and they certainly have it since your water usage and mine are recorded by our respective cities. You wouldn't know this, but Del Valle has ...
- Thu Aug 07, 2025 4:05 am
- Forum: Really General
- Topic: AI: thoughts, experiences, predictions
- Replies: 46
- Views: 9007
Re: AI: thoughts, experiences, predictions
Continuation of above... Previously I said that the winner of an AI arms race would be the country with the best laws, not the best researchers. I still believe this to be true. Let's assume for a minute that, generally, a country's laws reflect the attitude and culture of it's citizens. Right now t...
- Tue Aug 05, 2025 9:32 pm
- Forum: Really General
- Topic: Is Elon still as evil after today?
- Replies: 101
- Views: 10071
Re: Is Elon still as evil after today?
I know that the water usage, is actually much lower than what was anticipated, maybe there is no need to expand based on that. A source on that would be helpful because a lot of information surrounding the Del Valle plant is being withheld and I haven't found any recent water statistics. I'll add t...
- Mon Aug 04, 2025 9:32 pm
- Forum: Really General
- Topic: Is Elon still as evil after today?
- Replies: 101
- Views: 10071
Re: Is Elon still as evil after today?
Stiffed by Tesla: The car company owes small businesses millions in unpaid bills (CNN) In case anyone wants to claim this is a fake news slam piece on Tesla, I have a friend who lives very close to that plant in Austin. Before building, Tesla promised the local community, contractually, they would ...