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by cbeach 3y ago
Yes, the brain complexity is the key bit, and that's where the research is going (Tesla's in particular). Adding "a few different sensors" is not going to solve the fundamental problems of navigating the world.
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by cbeach 3y ago
So how does LIDAR read a sign (not just the shape of the sign, but the content)? How does it read the colour of a traffic light? How does it read brake light status or indicators on the car in front? Oh, it can't? So you need cameras t
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by cbeach 3y ago
They've never used LIDAR. Tesla have always been all-in on a vision based system, with Elon stating that LIDAR is a "crutch," and a "fools errand" > Andrej Karparthy, Senior Director of AI, took the stage and exp
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by cbeach 3y ago
Tesla's system is generalised and can operate on any roads. It also uses vision, as opposed to a crazy number of sensors including LIDAR. Tesla FSD is a much more promising and human-like AI.
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by cbeach 3y ago
Rather than doing what everyone else is doing (carping endlessly about Elon Musk), why not look at the actual progress of FSD. It's extremely impressive at this point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VWyaAzwMT0&ab_
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by cbeach 3y ago
It's not up to a company to "provide power" to its employees. It's up to the company to fulfil its mutually-agreed terms of contract to those employees. Which in most cases means giving them the dignity and security of a
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by cbeach 3y ago
Okay then, so you'd prefer to analyse median wages, rather than mean wages? The US has the 3rd highest median wages, and Sweden has the 14th highest median wage. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/m
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by cbeach 3y ago
America is in top three nations of the world for wages (OECD 2022). Sweden is 18th. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average...
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by cbeach 3y ago
How does a country give workers more power? By creating a business-friendly environment. The more companies operate in your country, the more choice of employers. Treated badly? Go work for a competitor. That’s how you put pressure on compa
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by cbeach 3y ago
How will they stop kids from running stable diffusion locally and generating any kind of porn they like? I suspect that will be an unintended side effect of this authoritarianism. The Conservative Party was previously the more libertarian o
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by cbeach 3y ago
How could you ever regain credibility after you de-platformed a US President and many of his supporters? If that’s not election interference I don’t know what is. I’m not saying Trump is a nice guy, or that we should vote for him, but I bel
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by cbeach 3y ago
What’s your point? That a truck with zero product iteration beat a sports car that has had ~50 years of product iteration? (while also towing said sportscar)? I’d say that’s quite remarkable and reflects well on Tesla’s engineering prowess.
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by cbeach 3y ago
Turns out people prefer platforms that maximise free speech after all. A very positive piece of news. I guarantee it will be sneered at and buried by a vocal minority who want Musk and X to fail because he's not in their political trib
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by cbeach 3y ago
Sounds like you’ve never driven a Tesla… am I right?
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by cbeach 3y ago
“How cities were constructed before cars” From what I understand about city life in the 19th century, I don’t think we should see that as any kind of target state. Cars enable people to visit the countryside and the coast (not just the tiny
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by cbeach 3y ago
> When the zone is nice and convenient, one rarely cares about the sticks. Trade my fundamental freedoms for the "convenience" of using services within my 15 minute zone, rather than the services I prefer to use, which may be o
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by cbeach 3y ago
Heart disease is the #1 cause of death. Let's regulate that away first. Cameras in every household to catch people who are about to eat unhealthily. Administer a small electric shock through their mandatory headgear until they comply.
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by cbeach 3y ago
To summarise, you're suggesting we shouldn't worry about a worst-case interpretation of the law, because you're confident that we'll have a best-case interpretation of the law. The path to hell is paved with generous ass
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by cbeach 3y ago
My key takeaway from this article is that we cannot trust the closed-door fact-checkers of Snopes, Politifact, AP and others. They're evidently not acting in the public interest, either by incompetence, or worse: by collaborating with
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by cbeach 3y ago
Perhaps you're not aware. Living in Beijing is not equivalent to "once eating a fortune cookie" > it seems that Helen was picked by Holden to take his seat. So you can only speculate as to how she got the seat. Which is ex
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by cbeach 3y ago
Now we’ll have to be critically thinking adults and judge primary sources for ourselves, rather than trusting secondary sources to do the thinking for us. Does that frighten you?
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by cbeach 3y ago
Curious how a relatively unknown academic with links to China [1] attained a board seat on America's hottest and most valuable AI company. Particularly as she openly expressed that "destroying" that company might be the best
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by cbeach 3y ago
Does anyone know which faction (e/acc vs decels) the new board members Bret Taylor and Larry Summers will be on? One thing IS clear at this point - their political alignment: * Taylor a significant donor to Joe Biden ($713,637 in 2020)
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by cbeach 3y ago
Horrible paywall. Is there another source for this?
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by cbeach 3y ago
If it wasn't for X we'd be hearing some flavour of the news in 24 hours time, from mainstream media, with all their editorial biases, axes to grind and advertisers to placate. It's fascinating to hear realtime news directly f
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by cbeach 3y ago
It now seems inevitable that the first* AGI will fall into the hands of Microsoft rather than OpenAI. OpenAI won't keep their favorable Azure cloud compute pricing now MS have their own in-house AI function. That will set OpenAI back c
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by cbeach 3y ago
Ilya is one of 490 employees that just threatened to leave OpenAI unless the board resigns: https://www.wired.com/story/openai-staff-walk-protest-sam-al... Looks like he wasn't instrumental in the actions of the b
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by cbeach 3y ago
Ah so it's the input data over the course of a human lifetime. Thanks!
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by cbeach 3y ago
Interesting stats. Could you elaborate on the data you mentioned please? What does the 40 exabytes represent? Is that a single “frame” of an image captured by the eye? Or perhaps its data per second?
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by cbeach 3y ago
“Elon Musk” by Walter Isaacson. It’s a balanced account of the most important industrialist of our generation. Refutes some of the “Elon Bad” groupthink myths too.

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