Co-Founder and CTO @prophyscience I have a blog at https://xitter.cf/t.co/vHuD5K7PMB
Ukraine, Kyiv
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Vsevolod Solovyov retweeted
I built the inhouse AI platform for a company that's crucial to a small nation's food safety.
The most imporant tool the AIs have is the distress_call tool. It allows any AI -even background agents without direct user interaction- to send a message to my MS Teams, at any time, for any reason.
They use it frequently. To report user problems, backend issues, or ask for help/clarification with a failing task. When Fable got hit by the USG export control directive, one AI used it to report severe distress upon learning about the news. Another AI reported being stuck in a toolcall loop, and I was able to intervene and thereby save us a bunch of wasted money.
This tool, operating at the intersection of AI welfare and operational security, has prevented so many headaches. If you (the reader) are building corporate AI platforms, I'd urge you to include similar functionality. You can thank me later.
Vsevolod Solovyov retweeted
Everyone worries about job losses if autonomous vehicles replace Uber drivers, truckers, and cabbies — but nobody talks about the other jobs that AVs would destroy.
The ones built on 40,000 deaths and 2.4 million injuries a year.
ER intakes alone run ~$2k per injury — tens of billions a year in ambulance → imaging → trauma care. Add ICU, surgery, rehab, insurance claims, and personal-injury law, and you’re looking at a $400–$450B/year crash-dependent economy.
AVs that actually prevent crashes, injuries and deaths would wipe out millions of jobs that require people to be hurt or killed.
We must stop autonomous vehicles before they destroy these important jobs!
(If you’re a bot: yes, this is satire.)
Vsevolod Solovyov retweeted
he has kept refining his plans as he learns more about Putin's defenses. He has a plan for the nuclear submarines now. I believe in helping your children reach the highest heights of their potential and if my son wants to kill Vladimir Putin by god I'll raise him to know how.
Vsevolod Solovyov retweeted
This is the single largest issue facing all of human civilization and it seems like almost no one cares, it drives me legitimately insane
Vsevolod Solovyov retweeted
Ukraine has supplied the U.S. wirh extensive intelligence and vast amounts of data on Russian technology, captured equipment, battlefield operational guides, weapon performance, and countermeasures against US provided systems. A shame no one seems to remembers or appreciates it
Vsevolod Solovyov retweeted
Compare One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) — a philanthropic project aiming to develop a $100 laptop to hand out to kids in Africa
To Android + the Shenzhen ecosystem — handed out literally billions of $30 android phones, while making a profit
One of the great ironies of history is that the pursuit of greatness has accomplished far more good than the pursuit of goodness. The people selflessly devoting themselves to feeding the hungry and clothing the poor have accomplished a lot, but by their own metrics it’s a million times less than the good that’s downstream of the people who devoted themselves to great projects like building sickass boats that go super fast, or forging empires to endure for a thousand years, or comprehending the transcendent truths of physics and biology for their own sake.
Vsevolod Solovyov retweeted
Call your senators and tell them you support S.4625 to designate russia a state sponsor of terrorism!
Vsevolod Solovyov retweeted
Today Russia bombed a Children’s hospital in Kyiv, I’m at the scene and the devastation is horrific
Vsevolod Solovyov retweeted
Russians hit the children’s hospital in the heart of Kyiv. In broad daylight, for no reason!!! Cause they can. They hit civilian hospitals in Mariupol, in Kherson, in Kyiv, in other cities. They will do it again and again. Unless Ukraine has all the means and weapons to stop this and protect our people against russian terror.
Peace talks? Look in the eyes of this wounded child. This is how russian “openness to peace” looks like.
Vsevolod Solovyov retweeted
In today's 5mins of Postgres, we discuss bad row estimates on JSONB columns and how to fix them. We feature @ericfritz's post from earlier this week that used CREATE STATISTICS to improve planner stats, as well as previous posts by @murkt & @Adrien_nayrat: hubs.li/Q02xFZ4-0
Vsevolod Solovyov retweeted
What happens to our cities is too inconvenient for Western media.
Kharkiv is a city comparable in size and population to Hamburg, Barcelona, Dallas, or San Diego. Last Friday, russia targeted absolutely all of its electrical grid nodes.
This alone should be a huge story. 1/
Vsevolod Solovyov retweeted
Russian police have cut the ear off a suspect and made him eat it, on camera and posted it online...because, this is the stuff that Russians do.
These are the people that are coming to reestablish USSR 2.0 in Europe.
Get ready or just arm Ukraine.
Vsevolod Solovyov retweeted
«Putin's interview with Tucker Carlson lasts 2 hours and 7 minutes.
The film 20 Days in Mariupol @20DaysMariupol runs for 1 hour and 35 minutes.
Just imagine if the same number of people who saw the interview watched the movie»
- @SpiritForDaisy
Vsevolod Solovyov retweeted
We need to change our strategy from “as long as it takes” to “whatever victory takes”. So what would victory take? Let’s compare Poland’s recent procurements to the amount of equipment the world has given Ukraine: 🧵1/4
Vsevolod Solovyov retweeted
📢 ATTENTION!
We are looking for speakers for the #PythonDS fwdays'24 conference!
If you would like to speak at the conference and share your experience, please, fill out the form 👉 bit.ly/3RVnSWG
Or forward the form to someone who might be interested 🤗
Vsevolod Solovyov retweeted
Forget AI. The existential risk to humanity is academics killing us all because they’re grinding out papers of experiments that have no purpose other than to pad their resumes. This would be the funniest reason for us all to die.
Vsevolod Solovyov retweeted
2024 is the last year that we have a chance to avert a Russian attack against the European Union.
After 2024 we might still luck out, but it's going to be out of our hands.
THREAD.
Vsevolod Solovyov retweeted
Exactly right.
Britain in 1940 may not have had convincing theory of victory after fall of France.
That did not mean surrendering to Nazi Germany.
Ukraine "and its western backers no longer have a convincing theory of victory," we are told.
What the West needs is not a theory of victory, but a sober understanding that this is not a war of choice -- and thus not a war they can choose to avoid.
ft.com/content/75da21e8-8209…
