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Comment Re:The solution .. (Score 1) 121

It's already happening in the more civilised parts of the world that even just the replacement rate isn't being met.
Unfortunately the people of most of the underdeveloped/poorer countries are still breeding like rabbits so there is still a net gain in global population numbers.
In terms of average quality of life, humanity as a whole is going backwards fast.

Comment Re:Good Idea (Score 1) 92

It's actually a terrible idea.

As someone with an SCCA license used to driving racing cars that have much higher performance than nearly everything on the road (including your Tesla), I can tell you that no mass-market road car is hard to drive. The problem is never the car, it's the driver, or more accurately their lack of ability.

To properly solve a problem you need to attack the root cause, not one of it's symptoms.
If there are people out there that can't truly can't handle jthe acceleration of a car or type of car then they shouldn't have been legally allowed to drive it in the first place.

Comment I've got a much better idea (Score 2) 92

Rather than continually punishing all drivers for the sins of the clueless, how about including car handling (e.g. throttle awareness, skid recovery, etc) in the driving test, such that anyone that proves themselves incapable of being able to drive a fast car properly or safely isn't allowed to?
Perhaps cars need to be put in performance bands, and driving licenses only apply to certain bands depending on the driver's ability.

Comment Re:Have you ever wondered... (Score 1) 62

I agree that they probably have the supersized egos that also make them mentally incapable of putting fault at their own feet, however all the billionaires building space ships are American meanwhile China are the leading cause of pollution (yes the US is second). It's hard to imagine how Musk and Bezos may be directly at fault for that.

I really don't get your second statement. You sound like those brainwashed woke that try to make everything about race.

Comment Re:non-deterministic outputs mean you can't predic (Score 1) 23

Actually you don't always get the same result (or at least the exact same response to the same question). I've tried this with LLMs running locally (using ollama), making sure to restart the engine from scratch every time, so there is some randomness going on.
According to ChatGPT, Ollama does make use of a random number generator for some reason.

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