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I think for all the tech he's bored of, he's reading cynical media accounts instead experiencing them himself. And this is how you age into old man shouts at cl

by joshe 4y ago

I think for all the tech he's bored of, he's reading cynical media accounts instead experiencing them himself. And this is how you age into old man shouts at cloud. Why his boring stuff is actually cool: Block chain is cool, I agree that we haven't figured out what to do with it. In the papers you read about NFTs and using too much energy. But if you listen to interviews with Vitalik Buterin instead you can realize that there are smart people trying to figure out what to do with this cool new thing. (I hold no crypto btw). I remember the first VR too. They've fixed a lot of the problems. I've had amazing artistic experiences just sitting in a little tiny apartment in Hong Kong. Beat Saber is fun, and different from other video games. Flight simulator is much better with it. I don't get the Meta/Zuckerberg media push, but if you avoid taking journalists seriously then it is a cool new thing. Also I'm more excited about AR than VR, will love to have the world annotated. Self driving cars are amazing. After about 15 minutes using a Tesla on the Highway, you realize you don't have to monitor it. You get to relax and be a passenger. It works pretty well in towns too, but you have to monitor it. Again don't listen to journalists and it seems like a miracle. I don't like voice assistants either, but it's cool that they kinda work. Five year old kids can play songs they like. I don't understand 5G in phones either. But! It turns out that it's a great way to get internet service in your house. Now you have a competitor to your awful cable company. Even if you never use it, your price for high speed internet will go down. When sonic fiber optic came to my neighborhood in SF, I couldn't get it. But my cable internet bill came down $25 per month and they upgraded the speed. Anyway stop reading dumb cynical journalists, experience things for yourself and you will age gracefully.

standyro 4y ago
I can attest firsthand from having worked alongside journalists that almost all have never daily driven a Tesla and are incentivized by their bosses to write contrarian articles ~ which leads to a whole lede about how journalists are underpaid and addicted to the Twittersphere's warped Brooklynish view of the world...
StrictDabbler 4y ago
Self-driving cars will save tens of thousands of lives a year and hundreds of thousands of expensive fender-benders, whether due to sleepiness, inattention, or drunk driving. The algorithms don't have to be perfect to stop a sleepy driver from slamming into a minivan. That's one of the coolest things that's happened in a long time. Being "pretty well served by public transport" and uninterested in that improvement is self-absorbed. Going on about how it's useless in a public forum? Yes. That's the inflection point and Adams pointed it out because it's narcissistic and sad. If you can't empathize enough to care about all the people self-driving will help, who aren't you, then you've lost something.
- withinboredom 4y ago
  Self driving cars could also kill everyone on the road from a single bug. A single bug is amplified a million times over vs a single person’s mistake only affects that single person. Overall, I’m looking forward to it, but I probably will never trust it fully with my life.
- stonogo 4y ago
  > Self-driving cars will save tens of thousands of lives a year and hundreds of thousands of expensive fender-benders, whether due to sleepiness, inattention, or drunk driving. This claim is the part of self-driving cars that has become boring. People keep making it, but they never specify when, nor do we get any information about whether full-self-driving is really that big a safety leap over the automatic braking and lane assist that we have already had for a decade or more. Meanwhile there remains no appreciable effect on the slope of the graph for annual deaths per vehicle miles traveled.
- macintux 4y ago
  > The algorithms don't have to be perfect to stop a sleepy driver from slamming into a minivan. No, but if they don’t stop for a stopped emergency vehicle, or do stop for no obvious reason, then drivers are stuck closely monitoring the car at all times waiting to take control without warning. Which, to my mind, is worse than just being in control at all times.
- hakfoo 4y ago
  I worry there's going to be a "the perfect is the enemy of the good" problem with self-driving. There will reach a point, likely soon, where on a damage per million kilometres level, a self-driver is safer than an average human, and eventually a good human driver. But I worry it will take years and years extra to get self-driving legally approved, because people will hang up on the corner cases where the best human drivers under ideal circumstances could avoid an incident the self-driver fails. I sort of hope the insurance industry will take the vanguard here, because they can see the "claims per million kilometres" number and get less hung up on the "my specific individual experience was bad" anecdata.
martythemaniak 4y ago
Yeah, I can't quite imagine how someone can look at a car driving by itself all over SF for a whole hour and not be kinda dumbstruck. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a5fUrjn0Hw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a5fUrjn0Hw = sped up to 7 minutes) This is feat that many people are incapable of, including a sizeable portion of those with driver's licences. And it is still improving on a regular basis.
- 6510 4y ago
  There is nothing wrong with rails.
NegativeK 4y ago
> Self driving cars are amazing. After about 15 minutes using a Tesla on the Highway, you realize you don't have to monitor it. After four hours driving a Tesla on the highway, I realized that I absolutely have to monitor it. The UI warnings about paying attention aren't just for legal; the car can lull you into a sense of security and then make dangerous decisions that require an attentive driver to fix. The car's capabilities are great. People's decisions to relax too much behind the wheel is bad.

by joshe 4y ago

standyro 4y ago

I can attest firsthand from having worked alongside journalists that almost all have never daily driven a Tesla and are incentivized by their bosses to write contrarian articles ~ which leads to a whole lede about how journalists are underpaid and addicted to the Twittersphere's warped Brooklynish view of the world...

StrictDabbler 4y ago

Self-driving cars will save tens of thousands of lives a year and hundreds of thousands of expensive fender-benders, whether due to sleepiness, inattention, or drunk driving. The algorithms don't have to be perfect to stop a sleepy driver from slamming into a minivan. That's one of the coolest things that's happened in a long time. Being "pretty well served by public transport" and uninterested in that improvement is self-absorbed. Going on about how it's useless in a public forum? Yes. That's the inflection point and Adams pointed it out because it's narcissistic and sad. If you can't empathize enough to care about all the people self-driving will help, who aren't you, then you've lost something.

withinboredom 4y ago
Self driving cars could also kill everyone on the road from a single bug. A single bug is amplified a million times over vs a single person’s mistake only affects that single person. Overall, I’m looking forward to it, but I probably will never trust it fully with my life.
stonogo 4y ago
> Self-driving cars will save tens of thousands of lives a year and hundreds of thousands of expensive fender-benders, whether due to sleepiness, inattention, or drunk driving. This claim is the part of self-driving cars that has become boring. People keep making it, but they never specify when, nor do we get any information about whether full-self-driving is really that big a safety leap over the automatic braking and lane assist that we have already had for a decade or more. Meanwhile there remains no appreciable effect on the slope of the graph for annual deaths per vehicle miles traveled.
macintux 4y ago
> The algorithms don't have to be perfect to stop a sleepy driver from slamming into a minivan. No, but if they don’t stop for a stopped emergency vehicle, or do stop for no obvious reason, then drivers are stuck closely monitoring the car at all times waiting to take control without warning. Which, to my mind, is worse than just being in control at all times.
hakfoo 4y ago
I worry there's going to be a "the perfect is the enemy of the good" problem with self-driving. There will reach a point, likely soon, where on a damage per million kilometres level, a self-driver is safer than an average human, and eventually a good human driver. But I worry it will take years and years extra to get self-driving legally approved, because people will hang up on the corner cases where the best human drivers under ideal circumstances could avoid an incident the self-driver fails. I sort of hope the insurance industry will take the vanguard here, because they can see the "claims per million kilometres" number and get less hung up on the "my specific individual experience was bad" anecdata.

martythemaniak 4y ago

Yeah, I can't quite imagine how someone can look at a car driving by itself all over SF for a whole hour and not be kinda dumbstruck. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a5fUrjn0Hw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a5fUrjn0Hw = sped up to 7 minutes) This is feat that many people are incapable of, including a sizeable portion of those with driver's licences. And it is still improving on a regular basis.

6510 4y ago
There is nothing wrong with rails.

NegativeK 4y ago

> Self driving cars are amazing. After about 15 minutes using a Tesla on the Highway, you realize you don't have to monitor it. After four hours driving a Tesla on the highway, I realized that I absolutely have to monitor it. The UI warnings about paying attention aren't just for legal; the car can lull you into a sense of security and then make dangerous decisions that require an attentive driver to fix. The car's capabilities are great. People's decisions to relax too much behind the wheel is bad.