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[–] [email protected] 11 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Not even the pope

[–] [email protected] 167 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Considering he asked twitter programmers to print out their pull requests Im not even sure he's not cosplaying a programmer

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ukraine is losing ground. Unless something changes, they will eventually lose the war.

The things required to stop that will necessarily be escalatory.

The West needs to fucking swallow that pill instead of endlessly fretting about escalation. Do you think Putin is worried about escalation? He just brought North Korea into the war.

Ukraine will be a smouldering ruin and Russian troops will be amassed at the border of the NATO Baltics licking their chops and the big brain west will be saying "Thank goodness we were so responsible in the Former Ukraine"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

No it won't. Korea is already there.

Let me tell you what ACTUALLY starts a world war.

Russia wins in Ukraine, spends 8 years building up forces and getting even tighter w/ china, keep chipping away at NATO unity with useful idiots like Orban, and then they take a crack at the Baltics.

THAT'S how WWIII starts.

Right now the masks are all still on. What happens in Ukraine stays in Ukraine. This is the only time to put boots on the ground that DOESN'T start a world war.

[–] [email protected] 158 points 2 days ago (7 children)

If a 45 year old not wearing a costume and strung out on Ketamine says trick or treat at my door, they're getting candy.

What am I, the fucking Halloween police? ACAB.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I completely agree that if there are tools that can allow a vehicle to "see" better than a human it's absurd not to implement them. Even if musk could make a car exactly as good as a human, that's a low bar. It isn't good enough.

As for humans: if you are operating a vehicle such that you could not avoid killing an unexpected person on the road, you are not safely operating the vehicle. In this case, it's known as "over driving your headlights", you are driving at a speed that precludes you from reacting appropriately by the time you can perceive an issue.

Imagine if it wasn't a deer but a chunk of concrete that would kill you if struck at speed. Perhaps a bolder on a mountain pass. A vehicle that has broken down.

Does Musk's system operate safely? No. The fact that it was a deer is completely irrelevant.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yeah. I mean, I understand the premise, I just think it's flawed. Like, you and I as vehicle operators use two cameras when we drive (our two eyes). It's hypothetically sufficient in terms of raw data input.

Where it falls apart is that we also have brains which have evolved in ways we don't even understand to consume those inputs effectively.

But most importantly, why aim for parity at all? Why NOT give our cars the tools to "see" better than a human? I want that!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (18 children)

If you watch the video, the deer was standing on a strip of off coloured pavement, and also had about the same length as the dotted line. Not sure how much colour information comes through at night on those cameras.

The point here isn't actually "should it have stopped for the deer" , it's "if the system can't even see the deer, how could it be expected to distinguish between a deer and a child?"

The calculus changes incredibly between a deer and a child.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Not at all if you're rich, and not temporary even for the rest.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

How long would it take for a hypothetical curious Republican to be called a Nazi outside of their silo just for saying they consider themselves a Republican?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago (3 children)

You joke, but he literally did tell people he spoke with "The President of the Virgin Islands".

Article if interested

 

I know that the CTrain reminders to not forget your newspapers when leaving the train have been overwhelmingly successful because I haven't seen a newspaper on the train even one time in the last 10 years.

 
 
 
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