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Comment Re:Apart from Wayve? (Score 1) 63

That's not why. Waymo is testing in Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn. NYC by the way has also recently legalized jaywalking.

The idea that machines don't / won't beat humans at continuous vigilance and precise movement doesn't make much sense to me, since machines are great at that. The safety issue already favors automation and the gap will only grow. (More specifically, safety already favors certain self-driving implementations, like Waymo... obviously in general, "automation" can also be total crap if done poorly).

I know we are only relatively early in the development and adoption of the technology, but I sure can't see any reason to doubt the outcome.

Comment Re:I don't think so (Score 1) 224

Insults at random? Check.
Brandishes his e-peen? Check.
Blames DEI for something? Check.

Guess we know who you vote for don't we?

"Know any smart people."? Heh. I'll see your "top five" with a "#1" and your "STEM scholarship" with a full ride. And I now work at one of the top engineering firms in the world. But I bow to your 'expertise'.

College education is required for those going into the engineering field, which is what Panlantir is labeling their hires.

Comment Re:I don't think so (Score 2) 224

Ahhhh, tell me you didn't go to college at all without telling me.

I do NOT want someone who has skipped college engineering my cars, my nuclear power plants, my wind farms....

I do NOT want someone who skipped college treating my wounds, performing surgery, or teaching me advanced mathematics.

The number of people who can learn fluid dynamics, system mechanics, aeronautical engineering, nursing, doctoring, or any other real technical subject by just going 'online' is vanishingly small. Like - near zero.

Comment Re:Actually, all these horses are the same color. (Score 4, Insightful) 224

If Palintir don't think a pricey college education is worth paying for, then I guess they don't want to pay for it. College grads pull higher salaries for those extra years of education, whereas highschool grads can be hired more cheaply.

There's a sizable online sentiment that 'blue-collar' (highschool + on-the-job training) has been unfairly devalued, and in other contexts many people seem to agree that college is largely a waste of time. Yet in the context of Palintir, since it is 'evil,' everybody will adopt the opposite opinion immediately and presume that offering workers a job directly out of highschool is abusive.

Comment Re:Trivial impact (Score 2) 68

Check this out - to transport a pair of shoes from Hong Kong to Rotterdam (18,600 km) via container ship generates 100 g of CO2. Whereas a 20 km trip in a car to get the shoes from the store is 1,800 g of CO2.

https://safety4sea.com/maersk-...

So on a mass-per-distance basis, the container ship is 16,740 times as efficient as a car.

I am not sure exactly how that translates to, e.g., a step van making a couple hundred stops vs. a container ship from China to LA and a train or semi from LA to Phoenix.

But transoceanic shipping is very efficient. True it's still a significant source of pollution, because it transports vast tonnage across vast distances.

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