The name of the ship was Bayesian, surely there are many nerd jokes to be had about a ship named Bayesian that sunk in a freak accident - or was it? Time to update our priors...

It's a really big ship, I would have thought a person-sized hatch would take a good while to let on enough water to prevent it from righting.

I didn't say that. If this is what NY wants then that is their business.

They jacked up the price and people's access to public roads decreased! Success!!!

As an argument against banning "FSD" as it currently exists - that is, with supervision - Tesla's stats do make sense. There is some argument that people cannot reasonably be expected to keep monitoring when they don't have to do much, so assistance requiring supervision actually reduces safety - Tesla's stats refute that.

But certainly, Tesla could not use stats from supervised driving to justify letting Teslas drive without supervision, i.e. the Robotaxi.

It's not just 14 stations, but also 150 battery-swapping electric vehicles. This could work in certain fleet applications and it sounds like that is their goal.

But it doesn't. For example, the lawyers that keep submitting court filings with fake references evidently have wrong assumptions about what AI is and is not (for now)

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com...

250 is less than 1/3 of 500?

A more typical use case for now would be using AI to generate some code, and then testing/fixing the code. Not running the AI every time to solve an instance of the problem.

Side note, I wonder if this paper compared AI performance to human performance. You think people can do towers of hanoi consistently?

In 1994 the msrp of the cheapest Geo Metro was $7800 and median household income was $32,260, or 4.1 x the cost of the metro. If a Versa manual is $17,000, 4.1 of that would be $67,700. Instead the median household income in 2023 was $81,000. So, the Versa now is cheaper than the Metro was then.

On the other hand people have long paid good money for pets, racing horses, or cattle with a prestigious pedigree. You want a pure-bred Samoyed pup? That will set you back $14,000. Nobody ever thought the offspring with be born with the life experience of their parents, they wanted the heritable traits of the parents.

Especially when the first example given is beef cattle. That application makes a lot of sense, but it certainly doesn't involve the cattle living forever.

Here is vmware's answer (for state and local governments), although it's a bit old (2020):
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vmware.com%2Fdocs%2Fvm...

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I don't get the "as a character" aspect. Most things we are familiar with being copyrighted are not characters - songs, books, paintings, also movies, e.g. "Gone in 60 Seconds" as a whole. So why would is a car design not copyrightable even if it's not a "character"?

Can you really dig a house-sized cave for less money, energy, or pollution than you can get some solar panels? Seems dubious.