It's just fear porn.

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McDonald's tracks adherence to the platform, and notes any deviations from the algorithm's price recommendations
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Which is what you'd want to do for any prototype system.

They should then track foot traffic, gross sales, and net profit and see whether the recommendations increased or decreased them when followed.

Having a control group is valuable, not a target for punishment. If McD Corporate were sane, anyway (cf. ice cream machine fiasco).

The one near me was charging over $6 for fries three years ago - I can't imagine what it's up to now. Haven't been back since.

Reuters is mostly jschool grads emoting and distributing propaganda.

I live in the upper midwest.
I have now seen projections for
- a milder winter than usual
- less snowy winter than usual
- a shorter winter than usual
as well as
- a more severe winter than usual
- more snow than usual
- a longer winter than usual

I think that means you guys have all your bases covered. No matter what the result, now we can confidently say we predicted "how bad it will be"(1, TBD April 2027)

(1) or "how uneventful it was"

> Amazon mechanical turk slaves

What does 'slaves' mean to you in this context?

This is mostly fearmongering and rage-baiting. Probably not 100%, I'd concede that yes, there's almost certainly some asshole with that plan.

But the fact is that repricing is a MAJOR way for a low margin business to squeeze out some tenths of a percent, but not if they have to do it manually.

Large grocery stores (one of the consistently lowest-margin businesses) in the 1990s would - I am not kidding - have a dozen or more laser printers in the back running full-out printing new price tags for everything. Do you have any idea how much manual labor it took to have stock clerks flipping those to drop the price by 3 cents or raise it by a dime?

Digital tags let grocery stores do these changes enmasse, and look it up:
- they have NOT increased average prices above inflation over 25 years of data
- they have made temporary discounts much more available, allowing groceries to likely reduce food waste by selling things nearly expired with lower prices instead of tossing them out because nobody wanted them.

LOL Elon Musk's politics put him below a LITERAL NAZI?

Sure, this is a completely rational take.

1) he picked a side you didn't like, full stop.
2) he disbanded a gov't agency that had been designed to destabilize foreign governments outside of congressional oversight and was used for at least the last 20 years as a naked leftist slush fund world wide.
3) yes, he put his foot on the scales. Remember why? Because Twitter was a leftist echo chamber.

He's not "doing the wrong things" he's doing things you politically dislike. Sane people understand their opinions don't define reality.

Score 0?

Glad facts matter, /.

Nice attempt at "only one siding". Oh look, it's Comrade amimojo /shock.

Shockingly he actual facts are different than you present!

https://www.reddit.com/r/singu...
(from https://www.washingtonpost.com...):
Results (left-wing/centrist/right-wing)
OpenAI - 80 / 17/ 3
Anthropic - 43 / 57 / 0
xAI - 40 / 27 / 33 -- this is the one amimojo claims is right wing, which should tell you something
Google 7 / 93 / 0

There it is.

Had to look that up. Apparently the journos have been using that term for over a decade amongst themselves.

Not surprising that the chatbots are giving these guys a run for their money. Not the best look when the nominal humans in the room do things like make up their own twinspeak I have to look up. Instead of, ya know, communicating to the public in clear language for the purpose of informing them.

Impenetrable in-group vocabulary as a form of meat-space model collapse?

Who's at fault in those crashes?

Hint: a lot of crashes with fully self driven vehicles is because they actually obey traffic laws in places where locals are used to not doing so.

Smells come from antisocials. Normal people wash and wear mild deodorant (if not east asian, in which case they just wash).

Usage of public transit is fundamentally limited by antisocial people.

No one wants to be on the same bus as a black guy going "I'm going to kill this white girl" and then stab you in the neck. No one wants his wife, daughter, mother, etc to be Iryna. No one wants them to be that girl that got burned alive either. Or any other of the countless public transit statistics.

That is the problem with public transit, and that's why it's usage is now suffering in Europe as well.

So that is a whole different problem, completely unrelated to the problem of self driving. Self driving primarily replaces one's own driving. It's not for the people so poor, that they can't escape the antisocials.

But you can't, because Waymos drive drunks and octogenerians. That means you have to factor them in in a world where both are banned from driving, but drive anyway because "human factor".

Just like you have to factor in the "AI factor" with Waymos, such as AI just having a momentary aberration at a critical moment. It's just that there's a whole lot more of A than B.

Subtract out the drunks and the octogenarians who can't see over the steering wheel and compare again.

We know how to take away these people's car keys. For whatever reasons we just choose not to. Taking away *everyone's* keys would certainly solve the problem, but so would using a grenade to kill a single fly in your kitchen...

I suspect this is because Waymo uses a narrow very high definition model of its driving environment. I.e. they are really, REALLY good at areas they know, but it's a lot of effort to expand the area where they are good.

It's the opposite approach of "wide lower resolution" model that Tesla uses. This is why Tesla's FSD works in most places in Western nations, but it will probably have more problems.