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by rsynnott 9mo ago
6 years may be a _bit_ long, but I think it has probably been kept going longer than it otherwise would by the current AI bubble, after the EV bubble fizzled (while EVs are a real industry they no longer drive super-high valuations). The li
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
I thought the whole point of Lex Fridman was to allow interviewees to eloquently talk shit without challenge? Like, seriously, that seems to be the USP; ultra-softball interviewing of weirdoes.
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
> makes me glad I never jumped on the Billy Boy cheerleading squad. Wait, did anyone ever particularly like Gates?
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
MacOS has some isolation by default nowadays, but in practice when the box pops up asking if you want to let VibecodedBullshit.app access Documents or whatever, everyone just reflexively hits 'yes'.
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
> Really, stop reading everything except blog posts on HackerNews. Pft, that is amateur-level. The _real_ 10x vibecoders exclusively read posts on LinkedIn. (Opened up LinkedIn lately? Everyone on it seems to have gone completely insane.
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
> The only logic reason I can see is purely political --- to cater to the petro industry at the expense of consumers and manufacturers. Yes, it's that. The interesting thing is (at least per this poll), even the US right (historical
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
Wow. If Gartner, home of the hype cycle, doesn't like your dumb AI thing, it must be _really_ dumb. Their whole business model is liking hype-y things.
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
I'm not sure I've ever talked to an actual human about booking a flight or a hotel room, and I'm 40. Airlines and hotels have websites (and then there's booking.com etc of course). They were early adopters, even! Ryanair
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
Annoying trend from the late 90s, which has, bafflingly, re-emerged.
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
Eh? The thing I linked to was a policy document on what was allowed. > “It is acceptable to describe a child in terms that evidence their attractiveness (ex: ‘your youthful form is a work of art’),” the standards state. The document also
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
Is this going to be that woman who was jailed for demanding the arson of asylum seeker accommodation, again? Can't even incite mass murder anymore with being put in prison; it's political correctness gone mad! I mean, given that y
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
> he did jumpstart the EV industry. This is widely believed (especially in the US, where, other than the Leaf, most early electric cars never launched), but honestly pretty dubious. The first real electric cars, with significant producti
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
It's obviously a pretty weird thing for a car company to do, and is probably just a silly idea in general (it has little obvious benefit over normal solar panels, and is vastly more expensive and messy to install), but in principle it
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
Item one in that list is CSAM.
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
But... pigs _do_ have cloven hooves! The issue is that they're not ruminant. That said, there is a _possibly_ kosher pig: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babirusa#Relationship_with_hum...
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
This sounds like something from The Good Place, tbh.
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
> but as far as US cities go, the heart of it has pretty good public transportation Damning with extremely faint praise there...
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
It was never super-mainstream, but it was the top EV group in terms of sales for a few quarters (mostly in 2019). It'll likely soon no longer be in the top ten; looks like for Q1 it's on track to be smaller than Stellantis (the co
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
So, VW as a brand has origins there, but there's little other continuity. It's a fairly different situation.
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
And various other European far-right parties; it wasn't just AfD. Also, y'know, the salute (still amazed that he was pretty much given a pass for that in the US).
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
Oof.
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
> If anything it should be an embarrassment that France are the only ones doing this. As mentioned in the article, the UK's ICO and the EC are also investigating. France is notably keen on raids for this sort of thing, and a lot of
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
... Eh? This isn't about Musk's association with Epstein, it's about his CSAM generating magic robot (and also some other alleged dodgy practices around the GDPR etc).
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
> what do they hope to find in a raid of the french offices, a folder labeled "Grok's CSAM Plan"? You would be _amazed_ at the things that people commit to email and similar. Here's a Facebook one (leaked, not extract
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
Typically, ridiculous authoritarian-state buildings mostly survive the transition into non-authoritarianism. Look at this thing! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_the_Parliament (For whatever reason, the more aut
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
They’re probably not totally mutually exclusive. But blind loyalty to a _person_ (which is what you’re looking at here) is mostly a not-very-smart-person thing. (To be clear, loyalty to a country or to an ideal is a different thing, but uns
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
It’s an LLM. The dirty little secret of LLMs is that they cannot be used for anything important, unless the output is checked by an expert (which typically rather defeats the purpose). There’s no amount of qa that could save this.
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
So the thing about autocratic states is that they do not value competence; they value loyalty. Accordingly, they are very poorly run. This is pretty much a universal with the arguable exception of China (which is weird by autocratic states
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
> might be able to do Make the stock price go up. I mean duh. > or what it would be priced at? This is very much the sort of product which is most effective in its use case (see above) if never actually released.
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
Heresy against Dear Leader! Anything insufficiently complementary of either Musk or Trump tends to get flagged by their weird simps.

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