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.

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.

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

Why is their AI having trouble identifying emergency barriers, uniformed people making hand-signals, big puddles, and emergency vehicles? It doesn't seem like the kind of thing AI typically fails at.

Maybe the bot-car should ask the passengers for help if not sure. I suspect it often over-identifies such that engineers turned down the reaction threshold. Instead, try asking the damned humans. "Possible emergency situation ahead. I plan to stop and wait. Please confirm if this is a the proper action. Press 'Other' for other options."

What country's leaders wouldn't want similar goon-modes embedded?

Almost all models are confused about their identity.

Queue "woke" jokes in 3...2...1...

As more products and services have software and bots developed in unfriendly nations, the US banning them could put the USA at an economic disadvantage to nations that allow them. I'm not disputing its a legitimate concern, only saying the tradeoff may grow harsher over time.

We are already paying much more for EVs than we otherwise could. (Although part of that is from trade disputes rather than concerns over rogue XiWare.)

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

Maybe the military's plan for extra thick shielding is why Space-X is building such large rockets. Elon may be using manned missions largely as guise.

> if you think "being a sexual tease" is a bad thing, you could think that.

The implication was that is the only or default way women would build a system. If he said "it was programmed on a planet known for its pleasure industries" then it would play better.

Finally a real populist.

He sure is getting MAGA panties in bunches.

Trump just fired every federal election commissioner right before an election... And if you're paying attention to local politics the shit going on in regards to voter suppression would make Joseph Stalin blush. Or at least envious that he didn't think of it

That's on you not me.

The through line, to spell it out in simple terms, is that building entire airports in major cities with major space constraints that are designed to cater only to the wealthy is a sign that regular people are going to be cut off from air travel.

Stop and ask yourself how much longer until funds are diverted from the airport you are allowed to use into the airport the ultra wealthy who make all the rules are allowed to use. You don't get rich spending your own money building an airport. You make suckers like you build it.

I don't know how much plainer I can get. The wealthy or taking away your access to the aspects of civilization which you have gotten accustomed to. They are doing it slowly like boiling a frog so you don't jump out of the pot. Which is ironic because a real frog would jump out of the pot while the average American convinces themselves they've been given a free jacuzzi by billionaires

Has the highest number of people employed ever. Because of course it does. Population growth is a thing after all. It is slowing but we're probably 50 years out from it going in reverse assuming human civilization doesn't just shit the bed.

So yeah the entire premise of this article is kind of a well duh. Makes me wonder if it's lazy AI slop or lazy human slop

Housing, healthcare and education come to mind.

Las Vegas is a good example. If you dig around you can find interviews where people who work there talk about how they don't care about the middle income guys and gals anymore and that the strip only caters to the wealthy. They can make a lot more money going after Big spenders even if you're not talking about the casinos so they can price everybody else out of the market and just focus on the rich.

Video games are becoming like that. So our cars. Every year the price of them shoots up relative to everybody's income. The only thing keeping us from a complete disaster really is old inventory. Used video game consoles and computer components that can still play some games. Or in the case of cars literally used cars. You're seeing people driving stuff that's 15 or 20 years old and a curmudgeonly old fart will tell you that's fine because they imagine that's how frugality looks when in reality an old car breaks down a lot and generally isn't worth the trouble unless you're flat broke...

This is one of the problems I think people have. People have a hard time understanding a process that is happening. Everything has to be all or nothing, black and white. So basic aspects of human civilization of rapidly becoming so expensive that what we used to think of as the middle class can no longer afford them. But it's happening gradually over time and over a large population and that's just too much for most people. If it's not here today gone tomorrow they can't understand what's happening