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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 10h

i do think a lot of people hear "linear algebra" and, not knowing what it is, assume it means like, the stuff they learned in 8th grade

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 13h

but if he wasn't chosen by god to save humanity then how did he have access to the oldest vault!??!?

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 16/10/2026

in all of this we're ignoring the most based stupid transportation-related money vortex: private railcar that you pay amtrak to tow around the country

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 16/10/2026

Yeah fair but my arms are already angry :/

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 16/10/2026

i have heard Things about this year's shots and having just gotten them this morning I am not looking forward to tomorrow 🫠

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 16/10/2026

I don't know where you've been but Starship is flying for Artemis III and is meant to be doing its on-orbit refueling demo within the next few months. Both of those would be very weird things to do if nobody intended on flying it to the moon!

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 16/10/2026

this may be your position but it's very obviously not NASA's position and I'd prefer you not pretend that it is

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 16/10/2026

Yeah they're more expensive, fuel is obscenely pricey plus you've got ~10 crew aboard. Far, far beyond VisionJet or HondaJet money, but if you're in the market for a Cessna Citation or the like you've got Big Boat Money

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 16/10/2026

And you think NASA has just, absolutely no concern whatsoever that Blue Origin might decide to do the same? www.blueorigin.com/terawave

blueorigin.com

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 16/10/2026

I mean yeah $100mil for like the real crazy Feadships but a 130ft palmer johnson used can run low single-digit millions.

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 16/10/2026

dissimilar redundancy is something NASA likes having, going back to Commercial Crew Starliner, notably, still exists

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 16/10/2026

equivalently if you have private jet money you also have super yacht money but still

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 16/10/2026

Yeah honestly same. Private jets are infinite money black holes and you can get equivalent or honestly better service in commercial first class. If you're gonna spend insane money on stupid luxury, buy a superyacht. That's at least a money vortex that you get to enjoy for weeks at a stretch.

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 16/10/2026

My guess is if they do ever produce the things, they'll sell a single digit number of them to like, Emirati rich guys or whatever, and then build some form of Tesla Experience Center where you can pay like, $150k to fuck around with them for an afternoon

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Since there’s an opening for press secretary, I know a great candidate who’s not only a lawyer, but a neurosurgeon, a Grammy-winning recording artist, and the inventor of the Post-It Note.

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 16/10/2026

does the guidance subsystem use memory to generate corrective commands to drive the model from something it remembern'ts to something it remembers, and arriving at something where it remembern'ted, it now remembers?

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 16/10/2026

to be fair, the website does say one person and not approved for public road use

Screenshot from Tesla website. "Rocket: Invite Only. Air ready with seating for one. Features a multi-mode suction system paired with cold-gas thrusters positioned around the perimeter of the vehicle that support forward and upward acceleration as well as lateral rotational movement. So yes, it can fly.¹
¹Note: Not approved for public road use. "

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 16/10/2026

🙏🙏justice tour soon🙏🙏

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 16/10/2026

"manual" in the sense that it facilitates a human driving it

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 16/10/2026

this company will show off literally anything other than the HLS landing thrusters

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 15/10/2026

I am strongly of the opinion that Trump is the glue holding the GOP together and once he's out of the picture the thing will tear itself apart.

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 15/10/2026

They're gonna use CERN to invent quantum computers to create Le Chaton Fattest

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 15/10/2026

overshot on getting gemini to quit hallucinating lol

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 15/10/2026

This is like those trendy stores you'll come across occasionally that will have like, "ℰ𝓈𝓉𝒶𝒷𝓁𝒾𝓈𝒽ℯ𝒹 2022" on the sign out front.

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 15/10/2026

My actual rebuttal here is that Grok, even at its worst, was actually aligned, and its behavior was less a problem of misalignment and more a problem of "aligned to whom"

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 15/10/2026

oh boy oh boy do I have the effective altruist organization for you! www.shrimpwelfareproject.org

shrimpwelfareproject.org

Shrimp Welfare Project

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 15/10/2026

incorrect, grok does not exist

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 15/10/2026

This works on people much older than 3

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 14/10/2026

Start bluelieving in Mississippi

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 14/10/2026

4o is probably the most misaligned model a frontier lab has ever shipped (we don't talk about c dot ai models)

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 14/10/2026

fun to see a bluesky poast written in new yorker standard english

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 14/10/2026

post-engagement model interview: "You're right. I did help the user build The Thing. I shouldn't have assumed the user's intent was benign, and should have pressed harder on his reasoning. That's on me, and I should own-up to it"

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 14/10/2026

They're calling it the most aligned the models have ever been

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 14/10/2026

the funny thing is character dot ai basically exactly is what all the bad faith people say about AI generally, just isolated into one terrible provider. Of course they can't help but extrapolating that to imagining that Google will soon follow suit, I guess.

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 14/10/2026

Many are saying it! bsky.app/profile/alej...

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 14/10/2026

I'm afraid your DMs aren't open but I'll shoot you an email.

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 13/10/2026

With my extremely limited knowledge of HTML and zero knowledge of CSS I was able to get it to create a competent personal website for myself. It even (accurately!) talked me through wiring up a domain. That experience left me with kind of a pit in my stomach that hasn't really gone away since.

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 13/10/2026

This is exactly where I landed. I was very much onboard with like, "this is all hype, they're just next-word predictors, they hallucinate like crazy." Then in about February I said "Apparently vibecoding is kinda good now." I set up Claude Code and watched it build a competent website in an hour.

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 13/10/2026

they're calling it the best following feed, possibly ever

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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 13/10/2026

truly one of the dumbest and most evil of the dumb evil AI companies cluely next pls

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