Indeed, throughout nature it's almost all sigmoids. The trick is that sigmoids look exponential before the inflection point and it's hard to predict when that inflection point is going to come.

I'm really not clear what point you're trying to make. If I manage to conceal a gun until I'm inside your car you can't kick me out? Or there's some sort of time limit on being able to kick me out?

I'm saying that a corporation providing a transportation service to the public is an entirely different fucking situation than an actual human in their home.

Your car is your home? Sorry, didn't realize you were so hard up.

You want robotaxis to be allowed to refuse to carry colored people?

Did you know there's a law specifically prohibiting discrimination on that basis? There isn't a similar law for guns. It is not an "equivalent argument" and trying to compare carrying a gun to having a particular skin colour is frankly bonkers.

Waymo taxis can indeed talk to the people inside them. They can also connect you to a remote human operator if you want to "talk to a supervisor."

If your rule is "no guns in my car" why do you think saying "but I'm just going to the shooting range" makes a difference?

The TLDR is "there are also gun nuts who don't like Trump."

Which I suppose I must admit is a good thing, with a tired sigh.

So you're saying that your right to carry a firearm overrides the rights of a property owner to decide whether you're allowed on their private property? If someone was to get into your car while carrying something that was legal for them to carry but that you didn't want in your car, you shouldn't be allowed to eject them?

We could also refrain from turning to fantasy and sci-fi to look for serious answers on how to develop technology or structure society. They are stories designed to tell a tale that sells copies, not necessarily as accurate or rigorous predictions of things to come.

No, why would you interpret what I said to mean that? The whole point of the tidying that I suggested would be to make it more comprehensible to a human reviewer. What other purpose do you think it would have?

I'm sure people will approach this news story in a sane and well-reasoned manner.

I don't use Claude Code. Until recently I was using Cline, it's got the ability to switch between different models for exactly this sort of thing. I switched to Qwen Code recently and its model-switching wasn't as convenient, though it just rolled out an update that makes it much easier. I'll experiment a bit with that, it might have caught up with Cline in that regard.

That doesn't work so well since it leaves all the old context in place. The point of doing a separate cleanup pass is to get the AI to look at it all holistically with "fresh eyes".

I guess this is a humor community, though, so practical advice is getting downvoted. Um... bazinga? That usually triggers the laugh track.