When the money from that all just goes up to the top. It doesn't really make any difference which country is selling us to crap because we still have to buy it and all the profit from it goes straight to the top.

So the problem we have is yeah immigrants generate a lot of wealth but nobody's really seeing any of it except the 0.1%. hell we don't even get the benefits of the taxes they pay because those just get turned into tax cuts for billionaires. Or I guess now trillionaires.

I get this a lot with my fellow lefties in the political spectrum where they are all rah rah rah socialism right until it comes time to discuss the practical impacts of immigration. Then all of the sudden they're talking about how it's important to make the line go up.

The more radical ones Will just tell you that they want to do away with the concept of countries all together and I mean fine whatever I'm all for that Star Trek shit but you have to tell me how you're actually going to do it. Because right now we came a few steps away from building Auschwitz in Florida and it was only because of the sheer incompetence of the people trying to do it that it didn't happen.

They are going to keep trying. That's one of the things about nazis. And these people are nazis. Nazis never give up. And they are laser focused on achieving their goals. They aren't hobbyists they're deadly serious professionals. Even if they're incredibly incompetent professionals they still take their work seriously in a way most of us don't when it comes to politics.

They aren't even capable of that. They can do what Lane assist has been doing for 10 or 20 years. As soon as they are in a situation where Lane assist isn't enough they get handed off to remote control.

Eventually these companies are going to be expected to turn a profit and the only way to do that is going to be having the remote control 100% overseas by people paid slave labor wages. Imagine the worst idiotic stereotypes about bad New York City cab drivers but make them real and have it done by wire over the internet across the globe. That's what we've got in store for our transportation Network.

You got Google you can look up what I wrote and confirm it. They admitted exactly what I said. Which is that they periodically remote control the cars. They did try to weasel their way out of it. Which is also what you're doing. Why?

Not them I know why they tried to weasel out of admitting that their cars aren't actually self-driving. What do you get out of that?

We have a huge amount of our economy being propped up by investment scams for technology that doesn't work. A lot of that is so that these overvalued companies can be stuffed into our 401K savings. SpaceX is going to wipe at least 2 trillion dollars of value off all of our retirement savings. Google wants in on that action because that money doesn't disappear it leaves our pockets and goes into the pockets of the billionaires now becoming trillionaires...

I'm just saying that maybe now would be a good time to call these companies out on their bullshit and get some regulations in place before we all wake up one day to find that our savings are gone and we're 70 and we're expected to go back to work full time or eat cat food on the streets

Why is their AI having trouble identifying emergency barriers, uniformed people making hand-signals, big puddles, and emergency vehicles? It doesn't seem like the kind of thing AI typically fails at.

Maybe the bot-car should ask the passengers for help if not sure. I suspect it often over-identifies such that engineers turned down the reaction threshold. Instead, try asking the damned humans. "Possible emergency situation ahead. I plan to stop and wait. Please confirm if this is a the proper action. Press 'Other' for other options."

What country's leaders wouldn't want similar goon-modes embedded?

Almost all models are confused about their identity.

Queue "woke" jokes in 3...2...1...

As more products and services have software and bots developed in unfriendly nations, the US banning them could put the USA at an economic disadvantage to nations that allow them. I'm not disputing its a legitimate concern, only saying the tradeoff may grow harsher over time.

We are already paying much more for EVs than we otherwise could. (Although part of that is from trade disputes rather than concerns over rogue XiWare.)

So the problem with these things is they Don't really work. Google admitted that at a congressional hearing. They're basically remote controlled cars with really really fancy driver assist features. Frighteningly it appears that they are sometimes piloted from the Philippines. Publicly Google will tell you that's not true but that's not what they told Congress when they were under oath...

The obvious problem with all this is that they're going to have problems with ambulances and such. And that's the waymo ones that are the best and most functional. The ones from Tesla which are so bad even Tesla doesn't really want them on the roads are a disaster waiting to happen. It does however keep their stock price up...

Frankly these things shouldn't be on the road with us but it's not like we have any say in anything anymore

It has created massive personal inflation for some people.

Maybe the military's plan for extra thick shielding is why Space-X is building such large rockets. Elon may be using manned missions largely as guise.

> if you think "being a sexual tease" is a bad thing, you could think that.

The implication was that is the only or default way women would build a system. If he said "it was programmed on a planet known for its pleasure industries" then it would play better.

Finally a real populist.

He sure is getting MAGA panties in bunches.

Statements like yours is _why_ this guy left. But I guess you lack the self-awareness needed to even begin to be able to see that. Why did he go to China? Probably because that was the best offer and as long as he can publish, it really does not matter that much where he works.

The EU decided that to protect local middlemen they would introduce a 3 Euro charge per item type on packages being imported. It seems to have been targeted at sites like AliExpress and Temu. I'm sure they will sooner or later set up local distribution warehouses inside the EU - in fact they already have some, so that popular items and heavily discounted ones can be delivered more quickly and cheaply. I suppose that creates some jobs, but it must be very annoying for people buying less popular stuff who are forced to pay the 3 Euro or buy from a middleman.

Trump just fired every federal election commissioner right before an election... And if you're paying attention to local politics the shit going on in regards to voter suppression would make Joseph Stalin blush. Or at least envious that he didn't think of it