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Comment It's hard to care about brain drain (Score 1) 103

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.

Comment Re: Ask the passenger (Score 1) 49

Not sure what he meant, but I was thinking AI usually fails at things that aren't in the training data. "Guy being pulled over for speeding" is a daily sight and should be well-represented in the data, but "emergency" can mean a lot of different things that probably aren't all over the training set, and maybe were explicitly excluded for not being representative of normal driving conditions.

Comment Re:Thank you Meta for patenting (Score 1) 49

There is no technological solution for a system wherein the people running it have the goal of providing as little care as possible.

On the off-chance someone trying to do good comes up with something, it will either be shut down or co-opted, probably even before hitting the market.

Comment Re:Easy part's done (Score 1) 49

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.

Comment Re:Good luck with that (Score 1) 49

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

Comment Re:Being too wealthy really is sociopathic (Score 1) 165

Most of the US wealth is generated in suburbs.

Calling this out, show me. Also show me an economist that measures economic output by where people happen to live and not where they work.

Yeah, let's instead force people into 15-minute neighborhoods.

And yet the major cities are in a housing crisis because so many people want to live there. Square that circle for me please.

Cheaper housing

That supports my argument.

The jobs are in the cities.

Comment Re:Didn't The FTC Do This Two years ago? (Score 4, Informative) 31

Also to be extra clear the 8th circuit struck it down for procedure, the FTC was supposed to have done a certain type of economic impact analysis for the rule and it could not go into effect before that happened. The court did not actually make a ruling on the rule itself and in fact were sympathetic to what the law was trying to do.

The FTC can re-implement the rule after that analysis is complete and it can go through the process after that but with the current admin they have chosen not to and generally Republicans were opposed to the rule.

If Lina Khan was still at FTC I imagine it would have been done but Sarah Ferguson who voted against the rule initially now runs it. But both parties are the same of course.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...

Comment Good luck with that (Score 2) 49

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

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