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Comment Re:And if that had been a human driving... (Score 1) 167

by noshellswill (#65957162) Attached to: Waymo Robotaxi Hits a Child Near an Elementary School in Santa Monica
Nope. Every true-Scottsman driver would have intuited the child preparing to leap from behind a parked car just as his car passed by. Humans are hardwired to do that .. both ... computers not so much.  It's like giving your gal-pal flowers on the Thursday , when  6-years ago  she lost her freckles.

Comment Re:Don't say the quiet part out loud (Score 1) 54

by noshellswill (#65956838) Attached to: Google Says AI Agent Can Now Browse on Users' Behalf
Yes, normal people enjoy  new experiences, problem solving and interacting personally with external agents. Of-course I'm personally involved with maintaining  plumbing and wiring in my home, as I am with lawn mowing and tending the gooseberry plants.  Not overwhelmed, not multi-tasked , not isolated  and not pandered ---  we desire mid-range interactions and human contact as Aristotle observed.  It's to the financial advantage of BIG-DATA companies that they replace all other personal interactions with human-->computer addiction.

Comment Re: Why focus on the last mile? (Score 2) 28

by noshellswill (#65956630) Attached to: 'Hundreds' of Gatik Robot Delivery Trucks Headed For US Roads
During truck deliveries by free-lance owner-operators the unloading is often performed by an unofficial, but well organized "grey market". Workers "appear" at the unloading site ( unemployed/illegals/felons/2nd-jobbers ) and do the merch unloading; they are paid cash by the owner-driver;  very "leaky" transfer, but no tax no bonding no security-check no union.

Comment toxic (Score -1, Flamebait) 28

by noshellswill (#65956584) Attached to: 'Hundreds' of Gatik Robot Delivery Trucks Headed For US Roads
"... middle-mile trucking, which, like long-haul routes, has a severe shortage of human drivers, according to Narang."  No doubt bitch-Narang lies through his teeth. Wonder they  don't melt  ! Yes I DO have several friends in the trucking business, and for the last 40 years there have been plenty of  skilled USA-citizen  owner-drivers. Only issue has been driving-out the toxic border-jumping  illegals. Some states and trucking companies pimp-their-ride to buy votes or lower costs.  Scabs should be neekapped.

Comment Re:Homo Sapiens, last survivor (Score 1) 61

by noshellswill (#65955566) Attached to: 430,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Are the Oldest Ever Found
"Neanderthals are considered to be descendants of Homo Erectus (as are Homo Sapiens). " This assertion is probably wrong. Fair chance HSS has/have  been around a long long time, evolving alongside those commonly called ancestors. Who "taught" hand-axe chipping to  those 750,000 YO Moroccans? We did.

Comment Re:Econmic collapse of 2008? (Score 1) 40

by noshellswill (#65955060) Attached to: Amazon Cuts Another 16,000 Jobs
Fewer goods will cost more, when American manufacture is required, but that's OKey. Tuff luck Karen and Biff ! Proles will have meaningful jobs, and NOTHING ... (repeat) NOTHING is more important than that in a (re)publican culture. Meaningful job means: if "they"(citizen)  don't produce it then you( all other citizens)  do without. In  case of  fewer dildoes we get more pregnant women.  In case of fewer PCs, we more clever "computers"( maths people).   In case of fewer foods, we get more self-harvested home canning. Who says food harvested by migrant labor benefits a (re)publican culture? But, the culture is self-governing, self-sustaining and self disciplined. It will last a very long time at the cost of a bit of bling.

Comment Re:40k years ago they came from Africa? ya right (Score 1) 61

by noshellswill (#65954708) Attached to: 430,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Are the Oldest Ever Found
Did you mean Homo-sapien-sapien was in Europe 500-K years ago?  With older sophisticated tool discovery the main-line "young human" meme becomes increasing hard to maintain. The crucial point you advise --- multiple points of hominid generation -- has become almost certain, with OOA just the tip of  a  ( reverse migration ) spear that was generated  almost everywhere ! I take the parallel edge-case view that Homo-Erectus & pals , created few tools and were NOT HSS  ancestors, but did evolve beside them. Just find-da-bones !

Comment dumb (Score 1) 35

So Citigroup is dumbing-down its employees. Here's what *.ai use buys:  *.ai addicts are 'cowed' into behavior,  have poorer memory,  stop intuiting, have lower ability to integrate ,  disparate information,  stop using geometric analogs, forget howto pattern-match and lose back-of-envelope O(n) maths skill.

Clearly the *.ai addict "progresses" from a thinker to an ant -- from yeoman to peon;  just what anti-ablist  SJWs , C-Suites  & investors want. Enjoy. Of-course a revolt may occur, before basic human skills are all lost. Blood-in-the-street ...  if at all, I give it 10 years.

Comment Re:STEM is the future (Score -1) 122

by noshellswill (#65954462) Attached to: US Government Lost More Than 10,000 STEM PhDs Last Year
STEM futures rule ?  Assuming STEM is not worked-out ! I mean ...  can you stomach more M-theory? Certainly fundamental & important discoveries lie ahead in biology; organic chem is as infinite as spoken  language.  But, the "big boy" toys on which governments spend multi-billions  ( astronomy, the "high frontier" and particle physics ) have next-to-no value for almost everyone.  Those esoteric observatories and CERNs could be privately financed ... or simply not built. No gain/loss to me or 99.9% of everyone. I'm excluding weapons because genetically violent humans ( like all life ) need violent tools.  Given these observations, science is best done by  small guilds, private institutes, universities and for-profit R&D labs.

Better that governments focus on their two basic responsibilities: [1] defending borders ( butchering out invaders and their Quisling pimps ) and [2] stabilizing finances ( no crypto, destroy monopolies, single payer health, national "wealth" funds etc ).

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