This is fantastic, and is one step closer to my ultimate desired outcome: make the purchase and sale of user data illegal. So much of the decline of the web can be pinned on the collection, misuse, purchase, and sale of user data.

GP had a point with this one.

I believe this is true. But it won't necessarily happen soon, or even in California. Just... eventually. I think once there is a real success somewhere you'll see a snowball effect. Right now all cities are in somewhat of a transportation equilibrium, but if some city's neighbor gets *successful* high speed rail while they don't, they run the risk of losing relevance. ("Successful" is the operative word. Mass transit is not an automatic win.)

Good post.

Even in the case of a far more efficient algorithm, the gigantic data centers may likely be a way to create a differentiated version of AI with superior capabilities
The counterpoint would be that we may reach a threshold beyond which 'superior' has less meaning

You aren't going to see EV charging stations unless you look really hard; they are mostly piggy backing on the back side of parking lots.

Road tripping in ICE cars is a no-brainer, compared to road tripping in an EV where planning is required. For EV road tripping you pretty much always need to use a route planner, which is easy in a Tesla but not necessarily easy in other cars. For some people that's a deal breaker and that's fine. Not for me though. The overall improved experience is worth it, especially for daily commuting.

I love road tripping in my Tesla in spite of the challenges, but I will say there are some annoyances. My parents' house is in a dense suburb, yet the Superchargers there always have a wait time. So I need to start bringing an extension cord and leeching off their 110v plug, or I need to plan to charge up before I get into their area.

People like Hank Green downplay the need for range, and I understand their argument, but I doubt people like that road trip very much. Coming from ICE cars that have 400+ miles of range AND gas up in seconds to an EV with 300 miles of range and *special needs* is nothing to sniff at. You need to be ready.

The best tip for convenient road tripping is to choose destinations with EV chargers.

The article lists "lack of training" as a contributor. For me the opposite is true. Mandatory bad training is a huge de-motivator. The training is bad, and forcing me do the training is usually bad. I am not most people though, and can only speak for myself. I find myself filling dual roles as an individual contributor and a manager, and the manager part is the one I would drop in a heartbeat if I could. Dealing with other peoples' problems? No thanks.

Cynical and misleading. The version of FSD available to consumers still to this day requires supervision, and it's miles better than the version that was available back in November 2023 when this accident happened. That accident was 100% the fault of the driver.

Where are my mod points when I need them? In the age of LLMs the need for developer testing (or maybe developer scrutiny over tests written by the LLM) is going to outweigh the need for LLM use.

So don't buy an electric car if you're in an apartment that doesn't have chargers?

Americans have been poo poo'ing EVs since day one with rationalization after rationalization, and the result is that China is RAPIDLY taking over the automotive world.

If true this is a petty, immature, and self-destructive stance for people claiming moral outrage. Tesla serves a greater purpose than lining Musk's pockets.

Let's destroy everything good when there's someone involved who we don't like.

God bless the early adopters even though we've had electric cars for a while so it's questionable to use the word early here. Repairs are one area where the Tesla Model 3 and Y have a leg up due to their ubiquity.

I was with you on this part.

...but then you pick out the one American company that is keeping up with the Chinese as your example?

OK I'm back with you again.

100% of ICE car owners require a public gas pump. Your conclusion assumes 100% of EV charging will happen at public chargers which is not true.

Wow. This is the wrong way to solve a simple problem.

Let me help you out a bit.

• Brother
• Epson
• Xerox
• Canon
• Cheap imported printer? (Are those a thing?)

The political winds are wildly distorting peoples' EV outlooks.

I know it sounds ridiculous, but take just a moment of time, close your eyes, and imagine a future where we've solved most of our climate concerns. What does that world look like for the United States, for example? Will everyone be driving a gas car? Will everyone be taking mass transit? The answer to both of these questions is probably no.

In countries like the United States you can't shift everyone to mass transit without a mass migration to urban areas. Not going to happen. And gas cars, while not the sole contributor to climate change, are still a major contributor.

So EVs will and should continue to grow in popularity because they *do* help us bridge the gap between where we are and a place of climate stability. Driving requires energy, and EVs allow you to get that energy from renewable sources. It's amazing how quickly people forget this.

And it doesn't hurt that most people who drive EVs really like them.

Albeit a flawed experience, this is essentially what experiences like Copilot are already doing. You use natural language to tell it what you want, then it spits out changes that you can accept or decline. Yes the output is a traditional computer language, but that's because 'natural language' programming is fundamentally imprecise and therefore unusable. And even if you could get a computer to reliably compile it while filling in the blanks in ways that make sense to the authors, you still have the challenge of having the next batch of authors being able to understand it years later, when in fact they may have their own way of interpreting what you wrote.

Traditional programming languages will persist for the same reason mathematical notation will persist: because we need an agreed-upon way to express our intent. None of this you know what I mean hand-waving.