I guess we could make more use of slave labor in america. We do have the prisons and we do prevent people from getting parole in order to keep them in the prison system as slaves. That's a real thing by the way you can look it up..

But other than that and other than opening up our car companies to using slave labor they're not going to be able to compete with china. And frankly I don't see any reason why they should have to.

Also if you think you're going to get cheap cars for more than the few years it would take for China to run America's Auto companies out of business then I would like to sell you some beachfront property in Kansas.

Keep a photograph of your license in a database accessible from any Hertz location.

Thanks for the concise description of CoT.

I generally feel that it has been a poor bandaid on hallucinations. And it does carry a processing cost (tokens). So guys like Anthropic that are making bank selling tokens love CoT. But I believe functionally it offers little more than false sense of reliability, that the model is checking itself and therefor it is less likely to barf out garbage.

For Claude Opus and Fable. I find that it can easily go off in a bad direction because the offending step is too far back or too subtle for the model to detect.

Car prices are going up. We put too much RAM in the various controllers. With multiple (16-48 GB) gigabytes in the IVI (in-vehicle infotainment). And even more for the compute and inference for sensor fusion in autonomous driving. (Another 64GB to 192GB).

China has repeatedly been caught using slave labor. We have a domestic Auto industry we do not need China's cars and we cannot possibly compete with a country making widespread use of slave labor.

Now America has its own problem with slave labor because we brought it back with prisoners. It's so bad that we literally have people who have been refused parole so that they can continue to work as slaves. Google it is not hard to find.

But just because we're fucking up doesn't mean we let somebody else also fuck up. The correct solution is we stop fucking up and then we don't tolerate other people fucking up. Slave labor is non-negotiable.

Or it used to be. A lot changed in 2016.

Because we're not giving them cars. Cars are too expensive and insurance is too expensive for most families now so the teenager doesn't bother going to drive because they don't have any money or resources to go anywhere. They don't have their own car and their parents sell them can give them access to the family car because it's being used to drive Uber to make rent that month.

You see this over and over again. We fuck up the economy and ruin the lives of young people and take away their future. Then they get bitter and angry and depressed because they have no future. They don't try to do things that are literally impossible. They don't try to pull themselves up by their bootstraps because that was a phrase to describe doing something stupid that we somehow turned into a good thing. Because we are dumb.

Then when the kids won't play along and make us feel good about all the fucking dumb shit we did to them we get angry at them. And we blame them like good old Seymour Skinner.

This is why your kids stopped calling you and why they don't invite you to Thanksgiving dinner anymore. You're insufferable. And when this is pointed out instead of saying yeah you're right I'm sorry I'll change you double down and get angry. And that's what makes you insufferable.

kids aren't growing up because we coddle them they're not growing up because we destroyed the economy and there's nothing left for them. We took it all and we didn't even keep it for ourselves we gave it to the Epstein class to keep it out of the hands of an imaginary enemy.

They might be remote control cars like the waymos are piloted it from the Philippines. But muskrat typically just doesn't even give a rat's ass enough to do something like that. I would not be surprised if these things aren't just running with the same broken software that the rest of the Teslas run on and if that turns out to be the case several people are going to get killed before these are removed from the market.

It will however pump the stock and muskrat is completely untouchable. The law just doesn't apply to him.

Is that every time someone experiences Joy they pay that corporation for it. There is nothing no matter how small or how Petty or how nasty a modern corporation won't monetize to the full extent that they can under the law or over the law if the fines are less than the profits.

I bring it up because they've been trying to turn video games into a pay per moment of gameplay service for quite some time. Forget microtransactions and forget renting games it absolutely infuriates them that you might purchase a game and play it for dozens or even hundreds of hours and not constantly pay for every moment of that Joy. Years ago Activision's CEO said exactly that.

Chain of Thought is a pipe dream, a false hope we use to convince ourselfs that AI can be done responsibly.

And hoping we can get governments to regulate the industry before catastrophe? Absolute madness. Seriously, and one who thinks that will work needs a lesson in what a government is and how it reacts to complex issues.

Expect the world to burn and the people to demand answer from the government before they even get to a finger pointing stage, let alone a measured and effective regulation of an entire branch of technology.

Under-regulated AI is as dangerous (if not more so) as unregulated chemistry. Doing nothing is like saying making pretty pigments and making deadly poison are at the same level of concern for society. The current response from politician, regulators, the media, and the tech industry is extremely irresponsible.

We'll eventually get to a point where we reach back 2 or 3 years and point at a particular model as being the start of AGI.

And ASI of course we'll know shortly after it comes online. And it will be the last thing humanity realizes.

Anything larger than a 256 GB stick risks injuring the carrier pigeon.
 

In the 1990's I played TSN/INN a lot, it was $13 a month for 30 hours. And there were a few tiers that were less and I was on one of those, I had about 5 hours a month on the promotional plans I was typically on as I was a little kid with no money of my own and parents that were skeptical that this was a productive use of their money or my time. I paid for additional hours before, just to finish a quest with a friend. It was really expensive, I think around $5 per hour ala carte.

Hertz can either keep the IDs or they could go through a service that wraps the DMV APIs for each state, like IDscan.net.... oops!

I agree. We should wait until it is too late before we react hastily. That's why I always sell my stock after a market crash and never at the peak.

Unreliable in the sense of cracks forming, maintenance shutdowns and corrosion problems.