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New comment by WindyTree in "A Call for Action: The "Leiden Declaration on AI and Math""

WindyTree — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 23:29:38 +0000

The full link directly to the Declaration: https://leidendeclaration.ai/

New comment by WindyTree in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

WindyTree — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 22:58:25 +0000

People have no idea. They’re destroying old books. Just like the last time (1), and the time before that (2), and the time before that(3), which were:

1) Nazi Germany, following debt/inflationary collapse of Weimar Republic.

2) Bolshevik Revolution, following WWI induced debt collapse of Tsars.

3) French Revolution, following debt collapse of Monarchy.

Now where are we? 40 trillion in debt. The interest is $1.1 trillion the amount added to it yearly is $2.1 trillion. The entirety of a government spending would need to be wiped out just to keep it where it is.

If you had the books that got burned, you’d know the cycle, and the fact that electing democrats isn’t gonna change a damn thing.

New comment by WindyTree in "Self-Powered Trailers Promise Leaner Freight Runs"

WindyTree — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:24:27 +0000

lol! Good point: Really it’s the integrated vehicle components that make motorhomes cost so much more than towables. In trucking, the triples trailers don’t have front axles, they’re added through converter dollies. That’s really all you need to make this work, a motorized steerable converter dolly and you can use it with any existing trailer. It only needs to be able to steer, maybe through combining different wheel speeds. they are basically moving trailers already this way with robot Dollies in China.

Realistically you can digitally tow the trailer at that point, you don’t even need the connection, just the promise the trailer following your tracks and staying close behind.

New comment by WindyTree in "It's getting harder to focus every day"

WindyTree — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:59:48 +0000

I was formally diagnosed with ADHD and it continued into adulthood. The only way to suppress it is a diet of raw veggies fruits and meats, combined with like 3 hours of exercise a day and time in nature with silence which my evolutionary ancestors presumably did to survive. The way to make it worse is the combination of sugars, processed foods and flashing stimulus.

Point is I think MOST mental illness is the modern world. If you dumped people with severe depression into their ancestors supposedly worse lives 6,0000 years ago, hunting with tribe and sleeping under starry sky, they’d be fine.

New comment by WindyTree in "Self-Powered Trailers Promise Leaner Freight Runs"

WindyTree — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 01:37:13 +0000

This would be based on a different wheel configuration. The control shaft fixed to the car essentially works to steer a pair of front wheels, and may steer back wheels to minimize off tracking.

New comment by WindyTree in "Self-Powered Trailers Promise Leaner Freight Runs"

WindyTree — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 01:32:02 +0000

Yeah, driving semi on tight two lane roads there’s be a whip cracking sound when we passed by other semis close, the two air vortexes colliding.

But I think it’s surmountable. Someone in this thread joked you could put the steering wheel in the RV, which is of course done, so really it’s just a question of RV motion not compatible with car. I could imagine problems with this, if the stopping distance of the RV is higher as it is in loaded semis, you need a feedback mechanism to the car not destroy the brakes of the car, same with pulling. Really the advantages are too high, solar charging, weeks of battery, ability to slow move with no car, but no restraints of being a motor vehicle.

New comment by WindyTree in "Self-Powered Trailers Promise Leaner Freight Runs"

WindyTree — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:40:41 +0000

In the US, commercial trailers are used like these crappy sheds, you go get one and the ABS unit is gone, the only thing worth stealing. For any company where this doesn’t hold it’s a big deal. The bigger deal is really RV trailers. You power assist, with simple motors controlled by pulling, and you can pull a huge one with ANY car, you don’t need truck, just modified mirrors. Plus the RV trailer benefits from slow self movement and power wall when disconnected. Total off grid tiny home.

New comment by WindyTree in "Self-Powered Trailers Promise Leaner Freight Runs"

WindyTree — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:34:16 +0000

AI could largely do that.

New comment by WindyTree in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

WindyTree — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:56:52 +0000

I’ve heard hints of this same thing, the rates are described as quadratic, not linear. The feedback mechanisms I do not know, but it’s something related to a high degree of released ocean warming that was stored.