Adam

@kels316.bsky.social

Rescue, land rovers, drones, random nonsense.

There's a moment early on that's just footage of Elon Musk balding and in khakis walking down an office hallway in the late 90s and the entire audience burst out laughing. If Musk is made aware of audience reactions like this I think he might actually crash out.

Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.

when AI dipshits start on their bullshit I like to remind them that all deliveries were going to be direct to home drone deliveries about 10 years ago. Also organs were going to fly from hospital to hospital in drones for transplants, flying drones were going to replace cars... etc....

The New York Times@nytimes.com · yesterday

City officials in a Texas suburb gave Amazon approval to start a drone delivery service in December as part of the company’s new Prime Air program. But for some, the ever-droning deliveries pose the most serious threat to their private and peaceful life. trib.al/ErjQ1FU

you can tell trump has lost the juice because he's pushing this 'super intelligence' bullshit, 2016 Trump would have never been this devoid of juice.

an AI true believer asked me last night "but what about the huge advantage to the military?" When I was a LT one of my peers dropped a multi-million dollar bridge into a gap, taking it out of commission for about a year. At the time Australia had 4 of them. How did he do it? Fucked up the recon.

Matt Ford@mford.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

The thing about talking to AI true believers is they sound exactly like the bitcoin and NFT morons before them. It’s all about to happen, just wait, it’s going to change the world, blah blah blah.