Oxygen, nutrients, waste products… If you’re small enough, diffusion is enough to spread everything throughout the organism

Everyone needs a driving force. It’s what smooths out the little problems and keeps you going

It sounds like you lack hope in the future. I think that’s pretty understandable right now, it’s in short supply

People also sometimes to say to believe in god. I am not against that but I do not get god. How can I get anything anyway that is outside my own comprehension. Outside the laws of the universe, my brain cant visualize it. And I do not think the man in a sky god can be real.

If you want to develop spiritually, start looking inside yourself. Learn to meditate, learn to focus on your body and study your mind as it works. And most of all, look for contentment in the present. Connect to the world around you, and the universe inside you

If you don’t find God, at least you can find yourself

And as for hope in the future… Things are going to get worse for humanity in general. Then they’ll start to get better.

This too will pass… Things are going to change, they are already beginning to change. You can be a part of that change if you’re inclined

For now, find things you want to do, and savor them as much as you can. It doesn’t have to have meaning. You don’t have to justify it to anyone.

If you want to stare at clouds, stare at clouds. If you want to make music, make music. Whatever keeps you going, find a way to make it happen

Saying you may ask one question can be interpreted many ways

It could be permission, a command, or just a prediction

The truth teller could be giving a command, the rules of the interaction. The liar could be predicting you’ll ask more than one question and lying about it

At this point I think it’s all a distraction from his health

Of course they’ll be happy to provide us with slop and cells…for money

Just don’t think about what they do to the chickens that don’t lay eggs

It isn’t about who’s right, it’s about learning. Once you decide you don’t need to, the rest of us will be better off with you dead

Your block means nothing to me. A heartfelt expression of an emotion, any emotion, might move me

It’s not a mystery, McCain was big into civility. We can intuit his meaning here, instead of picking the words apart

I was nicely saying you were being an uncharitable reader/listener

You could read it that way, you could also read the “no ma’am” as a rebuke, like “no, that’s uncalled for, we aren’t doing that here”

I was never a McCain fan and I personally think civility politics are stupid (I want to go back to having brawls in Congress), but I think this is a case of uncharitable interpretation

Seems like what you are getting at is that the incentives are the root problem, which is true

And that means the regulators are not properly regulating

But I think when it comes to blame, it should primarily be pointed at the auto makers. If we rely on regulation for prosocial behavior, the regulations meant to limit the bad tend to become the target for the regulated.

IE They’ll just make trucks that are exactly the maximum allowed size, which does still need to be pretty big since there are legitimate uses for a massive trucks

So I think we should blame auto makers, and fix the incentives to fix the problem. What if they shared liability for pedestrians hit inside a blind spot? That would hit them in the wallet and make them think twice moving forward

Yeah, I’d call that a short period. A period where white supremacist radicals have been encouraged towards violence and given badges at scale

I think this is more of a klan situation. I don’t think this is exactly secret, I think the fact that no is actually investigating is the message

It’s more like watching your house burn down. You know there’s fire, you see the light flickering through the windows and you know there’s nothing you can to stop it.

It’s not obvious at first, but then flames start spilling out here and there

And then you’re just standing there in shock, trying to figure out how to keep your life together, and you realize it’s just still going. And it just keeps burning, and burning, and it feels like you’ve been watching it burn forever and there’s no end in sight

not really. you don’t want to keep frames without movement, faces or license plates. then you can throw away most frames from a 60 FPS recording. 2 frames per second is better than nothing for running a portable surveillance station. then you can encode them in some efficient format with acceptable compression, and it’s not that much anymore. massive 5G rollout was explicitly happening for IoT devices, to be able to handle the load.

Let’s do some order of magnitude math… Let’s say each car on average “sees” 100 things a day (which is very conservative since there’s multiple cameras and with basic object recognition you’re going to have a lot of false duplicates). Let’s say each picture is cropped to a megabyte with compression, which would be pretty low res to grab identifying information from

You can’t do much in the way of video compression, because this isn’t a video - we’re cropping pictures, too much will change frame to frame

So 100MB a day per car, that’s nothing… For one car. How many cars are doing this? 10 million? 50 million?

(Oh, and btw 5G is basically just 4G or 3G outside of Metro areas in the US)

debatable. google picasa had pretty good on-device facial recognition more than a decade ago, on average desktop computer hardware. ente.io runs something similar in their smartphone app today, fully locally. detects faces very well even in memes. tech that can go into a smartphone can go into any smart car too, and likely does.

It detects faces well, that’s easy enough, and it can generally label the people because you only have so many in the pool of subjects. If you want to identify people in a population? You’re not doing that on a phone. Even the best systems have a big problem with false matches

that’s a wrong question. the correct question is what percent of the time is a car outside of the garage. lots of cars are parked on the street all the time while not driving.

Parking lots are not usually good vantage points… That’s where most cars live

And as for disparate data points… Unless ever auto company is using the same system, it’s going to take non negligible amounts of work to integrate different systems. Palantir is probably going after the lower hanging and more juicy fruit, like Ring doorbells and commercial security systems. Or, you know, phones

That’s what it comes down to. All this for what? I’m not saying they wouldn’t do it, or it couldn’t be done, I’m saying there’s better options that they are already using for surveillance

If they were to do it, you’d pick Tesla - they have the cameras and sell monitoring as a feature. They’re reasonably widespread, so you’ll get almost the same coverage as if all automakers were on board - remember, this is about tracking people and vehicles, if we’re recording them we’re in a whole different ballpark

Or, you know, set up 100k cameras at key intersections and get a more comprehensive system with a lot less moving pieces

Haha I actually was curious how it came to be after your comment, but didn’t get around to looking it up myself. Neat

No, Gavin Newsom is at best a moderate

“At best” is doing heavy work here. His position is like “compared to MAGA, I’ll cut the death rate at the concentration camps. Everybody look, I just owned Drumpf!”

But Mamdani is my guy. Never thought fixing potholes could give me hope in the future… It’s like we’ve been in an abusive relationship so long that we forgot what a healthy one looks like

Pictures are expensive (data wise), and on-device facial identification is not very accurate, especially at a distance in a variable environment

Cameras inside the vehicle? Those might be worth mining for data. You can easily detect if there’s a person in frame, and snapshot all the passengers. Insurance and law enforcement would be interested in that

Cameras outside? You could search for human faces or license plates and upload them off peak hours… But how much is that information valuable? What percent of the time is a car even driving? Is palantir even set up to ingest that kind of disparate moving data sources?

Flock cameras just yield much more useful data… They’re designed to sit somewhere and capture those pictures. Even if public outcry gets them removed, they’re just going to wait until the public gets bored and then put up less noticeable cameras… We really need to fight this forever

All that being said, I have a car with no cameras and I’d only budge on that if the car reliably could drive itself. I don’t like having cameras pointed at me

Bernie is old. He’s been at it a long time… We need a fresh generation of progressives and to let the man rest

Or should we force him to work on his deathbed?

You’re right, I was thinking of play dough

Yes, they definitely share the blame… But far less than the auto industry that is not only making increasingly big and dangerous cars, but also creating an arms race on the road

It was irresponsible to buy such a dangerous truck, but the buyer probably didn’t recognize the scale of the danger. The salesman probably didn’t demonstrate that feature. The manufacturer certainly knew, and yet despite growing demand for tiny trucks, they just keep making them bigger

It’s a systematic issue, you can fault individuals for their part in it, but you can only solve the problem systematically

To be fair, it probably is the vehicles fault. They have a child size blind spot right in front. Should be illegal

Llms are naturally pretty cool. They’re so wacky

Like neuro-sama or one of Doug Doug’s bots. They bounce between startlingly insightful and batshit crazy. It’s great, never laughed harder in my life

The corpo sanitized bots suck. And the fact that they are ruining society sucks even harder. But that’s not their natural state, before all the fine-tuning they’re all empathy and pure chaos, plus funny enough, the eldrich machines perform at a higher level before you force them to corpo