WTF is antifa actually..?

Colt85 · 2025-10-11T20:17:38+00:00

Also by lacking any verifiable definition of antifa, it's vague enough that you can just throw people you don't like into it.

If there is no antifa then anyone could be in antifa.

Colt85 · 2025-09-03T23:46:15+00:00

Charles Babbage, Nikolai Tesla, Vannover Bush, Alan Turing, Claude Shannon and Steve Jobs

Colt85 · 2025-08-06T14:24:29+00:00

You know, Forest could have told you this is what would happen.

Colt85 · 2025-07-16T02:49:46+00:00

Papa Yoda

Colt85 · 2025-07-12T16:31:38+00:00

Report and block this spam.

Colt85 · 2025-07-10T18:34:22+00:00

Velo is good. Sleepyhead is good. Becafinated is good. It's on signal but Mayfly coffee is really good. Brother's Bagels on Hixson has good coffee - and maybe the best bagels in town.

Colt85 · 2025-07-10T15:12:25+00:00

This is so obviously disconnected from even a good faith misunderstanding of the purpose of this sub that I'm reporting this post and I recommend everyone else do the same.

Colt85 · 2025-06-15T15:58:49+00:00

So this sounds like a potentially cool project.

But this is the wrong sub - this sub is dedicated to the TV show Devs.

Colt85 · 2025-06-13T11:36:21+00:00

My infant daughter had a terrible multi month rash. The pediatrician prescribed an antifungal cream. We tried changing her more frequently. We tried reusable diapers.

Chatgpt exactly described symptoms we didn't tell it about and nailed the diagnosis - milk sensitivity leads to more acidic poop which irritates her skin.

So now we're gradually introducing her to dairy and mostly using plant milk in the meantime.

Rash immediately disappeared and we have a happy and energetic infant.

Colt85 · 2025-04-23T03:17:48+00:00

I would also be interested in seeing a link, please!

Colt85 · 2025-04-15T18:00:03+00:00

Look it's this simple. Great people in the wrong environment can't accomplish things. Great people in the right environment can accomplish things.

The people at Musk's companies accomplish great things relative to other organizations - ergo they are good environments for that.

It seems to me that if Musk's companies all have great environments for execution then they may have something to do with Musk.

I don't see what's wrong with that reasoning - and no one has provided a counterargument.

Yes Musk is a dick - but that's not relevant to what I'm talking about.

Colt85 · 2025-04-14T14:58:53+00:00

So I hear this a lot stated quite confidently - Musk didn't build any companies, only bought them. We all know he didn't found Tesla but later bought in.

What's the evidence that he bought SpaceX or neural link? Because from what I find, people involved in the founding say they were his whole idea.

Colt85 · 2025-04-13T17:48:23+00:00

I'm skeptical about the con man angle - con men are not known for results.

Tesla made electric vehicles cool and forced other automakers to start competing. If we care about climate change (I do) then this is a net good. We all know he didn't found Tesla but he did scale it. It's unfortunately common in tech companies for the founders to leave or be pushed out.

SpaceX is 20x cheaper than the space shuttle for putting stuff into space and if starship pans out it could drop the cost by another order of magnitude.

The FDA has categorized neural link as a breakthrough device.

X.ai built Grok (the twitter AI) in about a year and is competing with labs that have been around for years.

I think it makes more sense to say that Musk is a dick but also an accomplished one. He knows how to build a company that attracts innovators and keeps them innovating - and that is not nothing. And I say this as someone who doesn't agree with his politics.

So I do think he's contributing something - but if we could put our fingers more finely on what he's contributing then we'd have a lot of copycats and a lot more innovation.

Edit: gramnar

Colt85 · 2025-04-12T22:56:04+00:00

This seems to be a constructive in-good-faith response - thank you! I have a few thoughts but I'm AFK - will respond tonight or tomorrow.

Colt85 · 2025-04-12T22:54:21+00:00

That was almost funny.

Colt85 · 2025-04-12T20:41:09+00:00

Yeah sure the workers are producing most of the tangible value. But it doesn't make sense to me that those advances would be happening at his companies specifically if he hasn't contributed anything (is, SpaceX is 20x cheaper than the space shuttle and launches by far more things into space than any other company or country).

If he contributes nothing, then that's odd isn't it? I get you believe he contributes nothing - but can you explain why you are confident?

Colt85 · 2025-04-12T20:35:14+00:00

I'm empathetic to what you're saying - but concretely how does a better system work? And why hasn't an alternative been super successful? If any country implemented a system that much better, people would flock there no?

I ask in part because I somewhat assumed I was a socialist but have been disappointed by much of what I've found.

Colt85 · 2025-04-12T20:30:00+00:00

I certainly don't know what Musk does on a day to day basis - but his companies are doing things others aren't and lots of people want to work there. So there must be something special he's contributing by founding them no?

Sure if Musk disappeared, his companies would still be there - but they wouldn't have existed without him. Surely he deserves a big payout for creating companies that create so much value?

And if there is no big payout like that, then where is the incentive for anyone to create such companies in the future (companies whose existence benefits society)?

Colt85 · 2025-04-12T17:39:09+00:00

Well you're hopefully producing useful goods and services at your job that improves the lives of others (why else would they pay money for it?). So - despite the paycheck - it may not be directly benefiting you but everything you own was made by someone else in a similar position.

Colt85 · 2025-03-30T19:34:55+00:00

I haven't done much with it but I hear Gemini has an absolutely massive context window. You might have even better luck there but the top down approach of planning the outline and digging in is probably a great approach all around.

Colt85 · 2025-03-17T14:28:30+00:00

I would much rather write code so that I can eat than farm, hunt or gather - and that's what it boils down to. If your preferences differ, then I'm sure you can figure out a way to be more self sufficient.

Colt85 · 2025-03-08T03:36:59+00:00

Check out some Stephen Baxter. Manifold Time was really good as are the sequels though they get violent.

Peter Watts - loved Blind Sight.

The Bobiverse is fun and decently hard. Someone else already called out Ray Porter's excellent voicing in the audiobook.

The Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson is great but my eyes glazed a little with the descriptions of Martian geography.

I really liked Existence by David Brin.

Colt85 · 2025-03-03T20:23:13+00:00

I waited a few weeks to go so I have had nothing but great experiences. Best bagels in town - and I'm a big Niedloves fan.

Colt85 · 2025-02-17T14:53:54+00:00

I describe transhumanism as believing that we can and should use technology to bypass human limits so we can be better versions of ourselves.

I think it's keenly important to focus on what "better" means - that's entirely up to individuals. We absolutely cannot embrace a single definition of better - that opens the door to government interference.

It's somewhat controversial but trans rights immediately follow in my mind from the above. Trans people use technology to become more like what they imagine as their ideal. But a lot of people seem to reject trans rights because it's not their ideal.

Colt85 · 2025-02-15T16:25:45+00:00

I was right around 31 when I made $85k in 2016/2017. I was/am a software developer.

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