Platforms won't do anything about this because they don't care. If AI can generate passable content that people will consume then that's good enough. Meta did this already, promoting facebook AI content. It's crazy naive to think that the platforms who want more content consumed on their service would do anything to stifle content creation. They'll do the bare minimum to appear ethical.

You could say literally this to an AI and let it help you figure it out. This is a tool, not a hard set of rules that you have to craft and then never change. Curating your own data feed would be impossible without AI. So just try it out and see what happens. The alternative is an algorithm that's designed to keep you "engaged". It's nefarious as fuck. This at least can give you a chance to take back some control.

I'd rather be the one who is in control of my echo chamber rather than leaving it up to the algorithms of facebook, reddit or others. They're aim is to keep us "engaged" at all costs. Social media is already a complete shithole. Not being exposed to dissenting opinions is low on my list of priorities when it comes to doing something about it. My top three are: being in control of your own feed, avoiding AI-generated content and having some way to weed out the bullshit.

K.I.T.T. would have known how to handle this situation

I think Toyota were in a good position to make these judgements, given that for a long time they were the leaders in developing HEVs and still sell more hybrids than anyone else. They knew the battery technology, where it was going and what it could or could not achieve. Hydrogen was an opportunity and I'm not sure I think they made a huge mistake in trying it. It didn't work out but they exhausted that as best as they could and so at least we know for sure. So while they should own their failures, I think we need to respect their call on battery tech. In the interim they still sold buckets more hybrids than anyone else sold as EVs, they still dominate the market. And it's still true - batteries are heavy, slow to charge, lithium doesn't do well in the cold and is prone to damage. Capacity is better but cars with long range weigh nearly a ton more than their ICE rivals.

The criticism is that they haven't innovated but why would they have tried? Tesla sourced finance from massive amounts of government money and Chinese brands are unquestionably being propped up by their own government. Now Kia rely on China, as do the Geely group for Volvo and others. BMW are catching up but they're still going to be expensive. VW is not owning the market. Toyota will have looked at it and seen the competition burning through money and come to the conclusion that it was maybe not worth the fight .. yet. Why try to copy everyone else when they were still selling so many hybrids?

Bottom line is that the most successful brands out there are from China. Japan doesn't control the battery tech right now, it's all CATL and BYD. Maybe it's half political but I think Toyota has realised that if they can't control the battery production then they're not going to invest heavily in EVs. They know from experience that it's all about the batteries while FSD is a side show. IF they do manage to figure out solid state then my impression is that Toyota will be 100% in the game and we'll see a massive shift in their plans.

But I fully expect them to end up as a niche brand. I do honestly respect a lot of the groundbreaking work that was done by Tesla, effectively proving that EVs could be mainstream. It took a lot of public money to do it, but maybe it was worth it. Now that job is done its up to someone else to make vehicles for everyone and that was never going to Tesla. I'm sure they'll always have something to offer but they're not the leaders on FSD and they don't really make the kind of simple EV that most people are looking for at a price that everyone can afford.

I'm still interested to see if Toyota can make a dent in this market. They've been holding back because of the battery limitations but that's allowed Chinese brands to eat up the market. Eventually the market appeal of the Toyota brand is going to wear off, they can't expect us to wait forever.

Not explicitly, but the idea that bitcoin holds "value" is an extremely tenuous concept relying entirely on duping human beings into using it. Crypto is often called a scam or a pyramid scheme and I tend to agree. All of the original ideas of a decentralised economy are there, but what actually drives bitcoin is the himan inclination towards gambling. It's very much like AI in that once you get beneath the surface things take dark turn.

Rightly or wrongly, this absolutely mirrors what Republicans are saying now. The value of a college degree is degrading and there is a dream to bring masses of labor jobs back to America. The answer is that people stop going to school and just accept that their future lies in a steady 9-5 making iPhones in a factory. Or replacing the hoards of illegal migrants who are due to be deported away from their low paying jobs. Of course none of those Republican politicians, lobbyists, lawyers or their corporate friends will be taking up these jobs, that's for the devoted followers of our beloved leader DJT, the voters who put their faith in him. Is that what they want? Maybe. Regardless, it seems to be what everyone is going to get.

What's the name for the logical fallacy where you incorrectly call out something as a logical fallacy?

We should 100% give this guy the power to destroy entire government departments

The Republican party embracing socialism. Cool.