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Comment · 1 month ago
I might use it for helping manage Facebook marketplace listings as that is data that is already on meta.
Comment · 6 months ago
Nah we're good Zefram Cochrane's first warp flight wasn't till 2063 ;-)
Comment · 6 months ago
Was likely for a grok avatar named valentine (https://grok.com/valentine) but they used https://x.com/v instead which only ever made two posts all in October 2025
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Comment · 8 months ago
As many other comments have said there probably is a good percent of stars by claws themselves, I would be curious what percent this is but it is also interesting: current "dumb bot" stars/spam etc is entirely automated and coordinated but these claws probably independently reasoned over long thought chains about why it is a good idea to star openclaw.
Comment · 9 months ago
Starlink and Falcon 9 have been an excellent pairing, Falcon 9 partially reusable rockets created a lot launch capacity and starlink filled the demand. Starship if it meets its goals will create more launch fully reusable supply by orders of magnitude, but there is not the demand for all that launch capacity. Starlink can take some of it but probably not all so they need to find a customer to fill it in order to build up enough to have the volume to eventually colonize mars.
Comment · 9 months ago
I could see prediction markets handing insurance in the future, it could probably get fairer prices but would have to be done right to avoid bad incentives, interesting to think about how that might work.
Comment · 1 year ago
For comparison, what percentage of the time do human run publications misrepresent news content?
Comment · 1 year ago
Top 10 by total descendants (direct + indirect)

1: Control of fire — 585

2: Charcoal — 444

3: Iron — 422

4: Iron smelting and wrought iron — 419

5: Ceramic — 404

6: Pottery — 402

7: Induction coil — 389

8: Raft — 365

9: Boat — 363

10: Alcohol fermentation — 353

Top 10 by total ancestors (direct + indirect)

1: Robotaxi — 253

2: Moon landing — 242

3: Space telescope — 238

4: Lidar — 236

5: Satellite television — 231

6: Space station — 228

7: Stealth aircraft — 228

8: Reusable spacecraft — 224

9: Satellite navigation system — 224

10: Communications satellite — 224

Comment · 1 year ago
I vibe coded with gpt-5 and the source json (https://www.historicaltechtree.com/api/inventions) to get this list:

Top 10 inventions by number of direct descendants

1: High-vacuum tube — 13

2: Automobile — 12

3: Stored-program computer — 12

4: Voltaic pile — 11

5: High-pressure steam engine — 11

6: Glass blowing — 10

7: Papermaking — 10

8: Bipolar junction transistor — 10

9: Writing (Mesopotamia) — 9

10: MOSFET — 8

Comment · 1 year ago

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