Car manufacturing is massively subsidized in the West too.

The Chinese are winning at manufacturing because they just do it better. Their supply chains are unrivalled, and that makes them extremely agile.

We can compete in Europe. Manufacturers here are now starting to offer cars that compete with Chinese models on price, which suggests that they were just ripping us off before.

I wouldn't buy a Liberty Phone because I'm European, but we do have Fairphone and I wouldn't buy one of those either because I need top tier cameras. I know a couple of people who have them and they are pretty good, except for the cameras which are mid tier at best.

The Model Y isn't a very good car anyway. No physical controls for most functions, including things like gear selection and headlights. The automatic systems don't work very well (they don't in most cars, e.g. the auto high beams tend to blind other people because they react too slowly, and Teslas are some of the worst for it). It's uncomfortable and you have to deal with frequent software updates and in-car monetization.

Right, we can learn about longer term habitation on other worlds in low gravity, and about collecting resources. The Moon has water and H3 and other stuff.

This time the effort of getting there will probably be more sustainable, because China is unlikely to give up even if the US somehow gets back there first, and because the whole industry is more sustainable now.

I hear that some of the AI generated ports to retro machines are as good as the originals.

Back in the day some game designers would farm out the actual coding of their games. The Bitmap Brothers did that a lot, but still managed to make games like Gods and Speedball 2.

These days most indie devs use frameworks that can boil game development down to writing scripts.

I think if the designers know what they are doing, and particularly if they do the graphics and sound themselves, they could probably get a decent result with AI writing the code. Likely no worse than some of the crappy developers from back in the day, lazily posting Atari ST slop to the Amiga, for example.

All of which is small fry compared to the fact that he digitally raped a women.

Let's also not forget that he's in the Epstein files and statements he made at the time suggest he knew exactly who Epstein was. Even if he didn't rape any children himself, he continued to be Epstein's friend.

It's more of a quality issue. An AI generated game could be good, it's just that because the barrier to entry is so low now, literally just type a prompt and then complain about the things that don't work right, that people with lame ideas and copycats are not dissuaded by the effort required.

Musk is doing his usual "our product is shit but all the better ones are fake and ours will be the greatest when it's finished!"

Musk's robots are crap and his AI is mediocre. He's nowhere near having AI operate his robots, which is why he has humans remotely tele-operating them.

It's so fucking embarrassing. Not that he bullshits everyone this way, but that people take him seriously.

A lot of these patches are for security flaws that LLMs found, so can't be simply ignored because of the source. If one LLM found it, another can.

It's just a difficult period we have to get through. Then it will be down to checking new code for flaws with AI, because it get deployed.

Most countries follow a similar path with EV adoption. Starts slow, people are worried about range and charge times and scare articles about the batteries only lasting a couple of years. Then they see people driving them and that they are actually superior in many ways, and decide to get one themselves. At the same time, infrastructure improves.

China is ahead because they started early, and had a lot of commercial adopters. Busses went EV a decade ago, then taxis.

It's the same with Linux. One of the reasons why it's finally gaining traction on the desktop is because instead of searching outdated Reddit threads and being berated by neckbeards who think you are an idiot for not doing it the way they do, you just ask AI and get a helpful response.

The issue is usually not knowing where to start looking. There is some goal you want to achieve, but you aren't sure what technology to use, what the terminology is, where to look in the manual. You could research it all, but these days it's easier to just ask AI, which will search sites like Stack Exchange for you, and get you on the right path.

Obviously you don't take the AI's word for it, but it gets you started with your own research.

The same can be said about banks holding your real money. Or more accurately, a database entry tracking your balance, because it's not like they have a physical pile of cash in a vault with your name on it.

The issue is regulation. The bank has to have enough insurance to cover any losses, and has to reimburse you. In many countries there is a limit on the maximum liability.

Or all software. Nobody starts from first principles and a formal description of the CPU's instruction set.