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by md2020 5y ago
From what I can tell Musk is literally a founder of SpaceX. I know he was a dick to the founders of Tesla, and he deserves shit for that, but it is a fact that Tesla has come very far since then under his leadership, and any claim that the
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by md2020 5y ago
My girlfriend has T1D, she diagnosed when she was very young. She’s great at managing it and has a pump and a CGM, but there’s still so much bullshit that she goes through when parts break. It’s really made me furious at the medical device
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by md2020 5y ago
“A panel of experts assembled by The Washington Post”. WaPo is owned by Jeff Bezos, and competing self-driving startup Zoox is owned by Amazon.
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by md2020 5y ago
There are 2 fixes Tesla could make to Autopilot that I think would make it much safer and pleasant to use. 1.) Set the self-steering torque limit much lower. By far the most anxiety-inducing thing of watching FSD videos on YouTube is how er
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by md2020 5y ago
Obligatory “Tesla != Elon”. You’re acting as if “researchers in this space” and Tesla are separate entities, and they’re not. Tesla employs people with very good research track records, notably Andrej Karpathy, who is Director of AI and has
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by md2020 5y ago
Always cool to see research from Numenta. They don’t get as much love as DeepMind, Google Brain, and OpenAI because their results aren’t as flashy, but I do feel like they’ve got a principled approach to engineering intelligent systems dist
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by md2020 5y ago
I agree, just want to add my anecdotal evidence. I graduated undergrad in Dec 2020 with a good job lined up, as did many of my friends who picked majors that had been the obvious good choices when they enrolled in college 4 years earlier. I
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by md2020 5y ago
> Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation. Since other comments here and everywhere already covered that, left unchecked, this just devolves straight back into a bad system where a select few end up as
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by md2020 5y ago
That the fact-checking and vicious labeling of “misinformation” would lead to distrust seems so obvious to me that the cynical conspiracy-minded part of me thinks it’s possible that the people doing it have been aware of it since the beginn
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by md2020 5y ago
I agree that Tesla isn’t immune to the same mechanics of supply and demand that make dealerships do these markups, but I think it’s important to note that Tesla honors the price of the car from the time you placed the order . I ordered a M
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by md2020 5y ago
> if you showed an image or two of an object to a person they could identify that object in other orientations and lighting conditions pretty well. To do the same with NNs requires thousands of examples and counter examples to train. The
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by md2020 5y ago
Not sure if this is just me missing your joke, but the SA article literally does make a gesture towards that: “And the descriptions and importance of ant societies existing as colonies is a component of Wilson’s work that should have been c
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by md2020 5y ago
Smearing an entire group of people by claiming they’re exclusively “literal cultists” or scammers and providing no additional argument for such a strong claim is the definition of a low-quality comment.
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by md2020 5y ago
Terrible comment, this isn’t Reddit. Take your smugness somewhere else please.
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by md2020 5y ago
Another technique you can try to cut off the dizziness upon standing is flex your abdominal muscles as soon as you feel it coming on. Works 100% of the time for me. Probably works for the same reason (blood pressure), but easier than hyperv
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by md2020 5y ago
This just sounds like you defined “value” to mean “something only living things do and that machines don’t do”, and then said the reason machines can’t learn is because they can’t value. Seems like circular reasoning. I think if you’re putt
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by md2020 5y ago
> But since it’s Elon doing it, somehow it’s okay and makes his company worth a trillion dollars Most comments on HN and Reddit (even the largely pro-Tesla subreddits like r/TeslaMotors) are people complaining about how bad FSD is a
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by md2020 5y ago
> tends to fall into the "slipper slope" fallacy territory a lot of the time it's rolled out Yeah, and the "that's a 'slippery slope' fallacy" rebuttal is often addressing something that is an act
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by md2020 5y ago
> "Question Authority" became "Trust the Science or Else" You forgot “according to fact-checkers”. Seriously one of, if not the worst creation of the news media complex from the past few years. I don’t know how they t
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by md2020 5y ago
> It is baffling that these people pretend to not know why people don't trust them. This has been the real sticking point for me throughout this whole thing. As much as I don’t like Joe Rogan, I went and watched some of his conversa
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by md2020 5y ago
As someone who is also vaccinated as has had the same thought re: other health choices, I think the convincing argument here is that indulging in junk food and being obese aren't contagious conditions. Although with early data on Omicr
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by md2020 5y ago
> Money doesn’t matter. That would be a pretty huge departure from how we currently create and transact anything of value, so I’d say I don’t understand that.
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by md2020 5y ago
I don’t understand how a post-scarcity society would even be desirable. For things like art and music, their creators need to be able to command a price on their creations. The digitization of these things removes their scarcity and essenti
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by md2020 5y ago
As a sidenote, "This will allow us to operate more cross-functionally and enable faster, more informed decision-making," is just completely devoid of substance. Do the people crafting these corporate statements actually believe th
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by md2020 5y ago
The hole in your reasoning is that “it’s a Ponzi scheme!!!” is not a reasonable argument against crypto and shows a misunderstanding of both Ponzi schemes and cryptocurrency. And it is always at the top of HN threads about cryptocurrency. “
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by md2020 5y ago
> the US government’s full faith and credit Increasingly doesn’t mean as much to people as it used to when it comes to debasing their own currency. See the recent lie about inflation being transitory, which Powell literally just admitted
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by md2020 5y ago
There are arguments against it within 5 minutes of Google search, it’s the people repeating this stuff that should do their research.
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by md2020 5y ago
Seconded. This “private companies can do what they want” isn’t the “gotcha” many people think it is. Societal values exist independent of the specific implementations of laws meant to protect them, and in places where the law doesn’t reach—
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by md2020 5y ago
Another thing that baffles me is the need to mention energy usage along with anything related to crypto. The complaint about energy usage is a normative claim that these technologies don’t deserve to use the energy they do, which is fine, b
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by md2020 5y ago
Spoken like somebody who knows nothing about crypto

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