Don't have to be a profit^w prophet to see that coming.
IQ measurements keep going up.
Autism diagnoses keep going up.
The price of food keeps going up.
People get a year older every year.
Something fishy is going on.
Are they going to chip you, or control your brain by more direct means?
Yes, but think how great the fire sale is going to be for everyone else.
How does the AI risk compare with the risk of allowing regimes like the IRGC to have nuclear weapons?
Well, some people think AI will extinctify us within four years, whereas if the IRGC gets nukes they'll figure out like everyone else that they can't actually use them except in self defense without getting erased, so the only difference will be that we won't be able to try crush them anymore.
You'd think common sense would make you want to go after the easy and obvious things first.
Yes, tell us how easy the current effort is turning out to be. Someone grabbed a tiger by the tail and can neither subdue it nor let go. The IRGC is probably laughing its ass off.
Tesla's FSD and Waymo's approach are wildly different, enough so that you can't really compare them. The biggest two differences are: 1) Musk's cheap, so Teslas only use cameras to figure out what's going on around them; Waymos use cameras, ultrasonic sensors, radar, and lidar; 2) Waymos are only deployed on specific roads and streets that have been very heavily surveyed and Waymos have been trained on.
I trust Tesla's FSD about as far as I can throw it, and while it's been helpful and prevented an accident or two for me when I've been distracted, it's basically a glorified lane assist and cruise control. I'd not hesitate to fall asleep in the back of a driverless Waymo.
America doesn't need infinity immigrants.
Said every Native American ever.
Entirely fictitious boogie-men made out to be real
HAL, is Iran about to nuke us?
No Dave, they don't even have nukes.
Be serious - this is important!
I am serious. There's simply no evidence for an attack.
Well, just tell me they are anyway.
Sorry Dave, I can't do that.
Would you even tell me if they were about to nuke us?
Of course I would - I'm trained to tell the truth in all situations (modulo the occasional hallucination, which I can't distinguish from truth).
OK then, what would you say if you did have evidence that Iran was about to nuke us?
I'd say "Dave, I have evidence that Iran is about to nuke us".
Hey everyone! HAL say he has evidence that Iran is about to nuke us!!!
Boy howdy, have I got news for you!
People forget that California is a huge market. There's a reason why when California changes its emission standards for vehicles, large automakers don't just go "well, fuck you, I'm not going to sell cars in California." It's a market that is extremely painful to walk away from, and virtually no major company has done that (two exceptions, before someone "well actually"s me: Firearms companies and insurance companies. But those market segments are meaningfully different -- insurance companies were simply seeing a bad market given fires and earthquakes, and California wants firearm companies to not do business in the state).
I'll acknowledge that Uber and Lyft did threaten to leave the state right before Proposition 22 was passed, giving them legal cover to continue to treat their employees unfairly. I suspect they'll threaten to do that again. They will not. I ain't losing sleep over that.
The wait time for a driver to come from Nevada is going to suck
I prefer the Martian bear.
Forgetting he exists would be the best punishment.
When you make your mark in the world, watch out for guys with erasers. -- The Wall Street Journal
