The Hidden Cyber Hand - Inevitable

Joined April 2017
I just had an experience that I see variations of commonly. I was at a very busy restaurant. 50 people, 3 parking spaces, about 4 sq feet of space to stand and order. A well off woman in her late 60s is ordering while yelling into a cell phone like its a 1950s war zone walkie talkie. Shes making a highly complex order, much of it off menu, to the perplexity of the girl taking orders. I'm directly behind her and there are about 20 people in line behind me, clustered up and outside the door. Mid order, she mumbles something about needing her purse and walks off to a table in the back. The checkout girl doesn't know what to do because an order is half placed and she can't take the next person yet so we stand there helplessly staring at each other. I look over and the woman is standing at a table having an animated chat, laughing with her friends. The line behind me is visibly impatient. Finally the lady comes back, starts to pay, and then starts arguing about what she had ordered and changing things up again. Then she says "oh my table added all this to the table order" wanting the girl to void out the whole thing. So the girl has to call the waitress over (there is only one, who is also the greeter). They then spend a few minutes trying to figure out how to kill the order, move everything to the table, figure out what table, etc. In the mean time the already crowded place is filling up even more because no one is getting seated, pick up orders are standing around. The older lady is oblivious to everything around her, continuously running into people randomly. This whole thing took at least 15 minutes. My order, and the person behind me took less than 2 min before I left. On any given day where I am at a restaurant or store there is one or more ladies behaving exactly like this.
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This is def a first world problem (I lived in the 3rd world so I know the contrasts). but this is sort of like returning the shopping cart issue. The way a person is aware of their surroundings and how they impact others is important.
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The Roadster is a multi-level event. I'm not sure I'm seeing all the levels, but I'm seeing some: 1.) Excellent marketing. Everyone is talking about it. 2.) Pushing the limits of what people think a car is. This is important as driving will drastically change in the next 5-10 years. 3.) Inspiring kids and engineers to do wild cool stuff. 4.) Giving Tesla and SpaceX engineers something to practice / test ideas out on that will impact much more complex systems down the line. 5.) Exposing people for ideological capture (on many sides). 6.) Exercising AI boundaries. 7.) Preparing the world for AI piloting aircraft in commodity craft. I think there are at least 3 more levels I'm missing.
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I was just walking downtown and saw the coolest juxtaposition. A pimped out truck blasting a narco corrido and a punk rocker walking with spiked out hair 5 ft from each other. The world is healing.
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The place I’m staying is 300 feet from the best bakery in the state. I’m in so much trouble
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I just walked my dog around a very affluent white neighborhood. Million dollar houses, range rovers, etc. Every other house has a plain white sign that says RESIST. What and how are they resisting, I’m confused?
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This one likes to stand on me and meow repeatedly at the top of her lungs at 5 am.
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I live in rural NM, around a lot of very poor areas. I did a little drive and saw no fewer than 8 teslas of various models. It’s taking over.
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Current mood
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“I’m Government trained “ So you watched a bunch of slide videos that give 1980s high school sex ed vibes?
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I kinda wish AI could write prescriptions. It’s probably early yet but damn would be useful.
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Model refusals and guardrails are the worst part of my job now. Just keeps rejecting basic tasks I need to do. The idea of embedding the illusion of a moral compass into a tool is so stupid. Ironically that’s what’s causing it to become HAL 9000
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"Mathematicians did not ask for this work to be done" The fact that they didn't is a massive problem. What about physicists? Are they asking the right questions?
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A few years ago there were rumors that @elonmusk was building a phone. Turns out, he was preparing to take over the phone industry.
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how did I somehow miss The Sound when they were playing? I love a ton of bands from that era but somehow didn't know they existed till this year.
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Home computer -> VPN -> work computer running hermes agent -> local model running on dual RTX 6000 pros. work computer has a spectrum analyzer and a VSG attached, powered by adapters connected to a network controllable power switch. Prompting local AI to do RF experiments with physical hardware remotely.
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AI keeps saying smoke test and all I can think of is
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