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by Retric 8mo ago
Most people have a rather consistent commute, so the Mercedes was a more like a 0% or 80% kind of thing. The issue was adding more roads wasn’t going to help, the underlying benefit to attention free driving just wasn’t that valuable even t
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by Retric 8mo ago
Jobs you don’t notice or understand often look pointless. HR on the surface seems unimportant, but you’d notice if the company stopped having health insurance or sending your taxes to the IRS etc etc. In the end when jobs are done right t
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by Retric 8mo ago
They canceled it because of poor adoption rather than any technical issues. Which if anything looks worse for Tesla long term. If luxury car owners aren’t willing to pay 200$/month for self driving then trying to up charge people buyin
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by Retric 8mo ago
Months where you’re still required to be paying attention. Meanwhile 2 years ago Mercedes-Benz Drive Pilot a level 3 system let you sit and watch a movie without paying attention to the road. Personally that’s way more useful for me even
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by Retric 8mo ago
People are still institutionalized against their will others are left to die on the streets, but not all mental illness is particularly severe. Psychoanalysis while mostly quackery is ~135 years old providing an example where talking was co
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by Retric 8mo ago
They don’t do human in the loop at highway speeds. Further the cars need to safely stop in an emergency without human intervention. There’s no way for the car to first notice a problem, then send a message to a call center which then routes
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by Retric 8mo ago
The very first time it happened X is likely off the hook. However notification plays a role here, there’s a bunch of things the post office does if someone tries to use them to do this regularly and you ask the post office to do something.
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by Retric 8mo ago
That specific action is still instigated by Bob. Where grok is at risk is not responding after they are notified of the issue. It’s trivial for grock to ban some keywords here and they aren’t, that’s a legal issue.
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by Retric 8mo ago
I may be in a bubble of smart people, but IMO AI consistently far worse than many high school works I’ve read in terms of actual substance and coherent structure. Of course I’ve had arguments where people praise AI output then I’ve literall
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by Retric 8mo ago
Mental illness has always been common and often been cool in one form or another. Serial killers get fan mail, that’s true now and it was true 100 years ago.
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by Retric 8mo ago
I find most people can write way better than AI, they simply don’t put in the effort. Which is the real issue, we’re flooding channels not designed for such low effort submissions. AI slop is just SPAM in a different context.
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by Retric 8mo ago
I agree it’s difficult to do these calculations as society evolves with technology. Trains enable long distance evacuation from hurricanes. Street cars and subways allow for medical transportation but it looks very different than an ambula
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by Retric 8mo ago
> Have you ever pretended to hold more progressive views than you truly endorse to succeed socially or academically? Without also asking “have you pretend to hold more conservative views” you’re likely to draw an incorrect conclusion fro
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by Retric 8mo ago
I make no claims about what’s going on in people’s heads here just the underlying reality. I was pissed I didn’t go to nationals in high school largely because I got no sleep the night before due to a crappy hotel stay. Losing a close game
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by Retric 8mo ago
Is it? Do you include everyone that’s died or lost a loved one due to personal automobiles in that assessment? We are so far post automobile that it’s hard to compare, but many of the benefits are illusionary when you consider how society h
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by Retric 8mo ago
Winning a title is never about facing the greatest possible opponent. Even the people who show up aren’t at their absolute best, but consider everyone who doesn’t devote their lives to the sport. The greatest potential chess player of all
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by Retric 8mo ago
That’s less a brain teaser than running into the error correction people use with language. This is useful when you simply can’t hear someone very well or when the speaker makes a mistake, but fails when language is intentionally misused.
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by Retric 8mo ago
> seem to be fine Now repeat the question to the same model in different contexts several times and count what percentage of the time it’s correct.
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by Retric 8mo ago
I think it’s the same reason there’s no sport of throwing stones at targets but there is a sport of throwing darts at a board. Scoring is harder when the projectile bounces. Horseshoes, curling, shuffleboard, etc use where the projectile e
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by Retric 8mo ago
> If there is not a significant influx of new marriageable people then over time the marriageability of the pool will decline That seems to be extremely unlikely, people have finite lifespans and are only in the marriage pool for a small
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by Retric 8mo ago
You can say the same thing about what happened 200-300 years ago. The thing is major events tend to have a lot of remnants left behind, nobody is going to pretend the American Civil war didn’t happen. The specifics of any given battle qui
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by Retric 8mo ago
Many people who are artists can’t afford to stay artists. Pulling a 80 hour workweeks at 24, supporting yourself while doing something else is not sustainable. Similarly someone supporting themselves as an artist + a kid is suddenly a very
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by Retric 8mo ago
That’s 95.5% accuracy with a 16 person dataset in a highly constrained environment. Wi-Fi uses long wavelengths, you can cancel out the noise with one person but crowds are all distorting the same very weak signal here. 5Ghz = 6cm, visible
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by Retric 8mo ago
Working artists, spouses, and semi-retirees are relatively common. ‘2,000 creative workers’ would make this quite competitive, even if it’s only 20k USD/year that could easily enable people to be artists who wouldn’t make a career of i
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by Retric 8mo ago
It heavily depends on what kind of creative interpretations of the law you think are reasonable. Democrats often go for “creative” interpretations that fit the existing legal framework just fine. Defining CO2 as pollution is upsetting for
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by Retric 9mo ago
So I realized you misunderstood what I said. For example, I said they operate in Texas as you called out California as your example. Texas doesn’t allow sobriety checkpoints but it’s an entirely new states worth of legal issues here.
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by Retric 9mo ago
If you see a checkpoint at sufficient distance to make a legal u turn before interacting with the police yes. If a police officer is pointing at your car because they are going to search you no.
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by Retric 9mo ago
There’s definitely been variability in how far government agencies have been pushing under this administration. It’s going to get interesting if the next Democrat in the white house takes similar steps based on current precedent. That woul
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by Retric 9mo ago
Waymo is operating in many locations outside of California such as Florida and Texas, and it intends to expand to many more states.
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by Retric 9mo ago
Those waypoints have legal implications. It’s often illegal to make a U-Turn to avoid a police checkpoint for example. There’s no way someone can unstick a confused car without being able to make legally relevant choices.

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