No, you are living in a fantasy land for babies where your lazy deeply flawed visions of the future are more important than the blazing reality tearing everything down right now as we speak :)
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There are actually two ways to make a self driving car.
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make a self driving car that can be trusted to drive around pedestrian filled environments and not kill them (this option is extremely hard with literally infinite edgecases)
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dehumanize pedestrians culturally and legally to the point that the bar for safety becomes a bludgeon to beat them with, then sell a broken self driving car
which do you think tesla is choosing?
Lol, yup and it is going so well.
The only reason self driving cars are legal on US roads is we actually hate pedestrians as drivers in the US and we don't really give a shit about traffic safety.
I'd guess by 2030 or so they will be a widespread global phenomenon. By that point, self-driving cars will rapidly be replacing most driving jobs too.
That is a terrible guess, and it isn't even remotely close on the scale of decades.
What if AI Doctors as good as humans were nearly free & every human on the planet had access to their expertise. Surely, that is something to go on strike for - not against.
What if you read too many scifi novels with AI while ignoring how politics were changing in the real world and have willingly mistook a vehicle of brutal class war (that has a MASSIVE carbon footprint) being used by the ultrawealthy to force everyone back into feudalism as a magic technological savior of our futures?
Do you realize how easy of a mark people like you are? You got played hard.
When the rolling blackout comes during an intense heatwave and the people in charge have to choose between cutting power to the elderly, people at risk with their health, and the poor vs. cutting power to their rich friend's data center that is turning a mean profit do you think they are even going to think about that choice? No, they will cut off power to the poor.
This isn't just a bad idea, it is constructing a dichotomy that can and will be used to justify mass death in the arid, hot areas of the US.
If you live in a place like this, move away as soon as possible, the writing is on the wall.
The pentagon has been growing like an out of control cancer since at least 9/11, this doesn't prove that.
I am sorry, do you still at this late date think Trump listens? Even if he wanted to, he wouldn't know how he hasn't done it in decades.
Rank Of Preferences of what I would most prefer to do after reading this, starting with most preferred!
- be shot by a firing squad
- die by lethal injection
- visit south carolina
the F35 program has provided a living for a great many people.
That amount of money could have provided those people a future instead of a job that paid well for a bit.
You are going to tell that to me with a straight face lol?
No, the problem is the program spent an obsene amount of money, just because you also can no longer trust the people controlling the program doesn't mean the program wasn't a titanic, strategic faceplant of burning so much money that any future conflict is already lost.
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...but also, this is what military nerds seem to refuse to understand about this, you can't act like it is a detail that maybe now you can't existentially trust the person you are buying an incredibly advanced fighter aircraft from, as if that wasn't directly connected to why the f35 itself is a strategic failure of a program, and as if there is any sense that you can consider the f35 separately from the incredibly incompetent politics and runaway cancerous military industrial complex surrounding it.
I will concede maybe I was being overly negative about the capabilities of the plane, but this whole conversation is still absolutely absurd, we might as well be arguing about comic book super heroes if we aren't going to include the context of this program was CLEARLY a strategic failure for everyone involved from the beginning, because the existential risk to the security of other nations at the highest levels is now threatened (sureee the U.S. military can't hack their own jets.... ..... ....).
The f35 is meant to be a lynchpin of an integrated battlefield, collating, identifying and tracking targets. It is like you took all the corporate surveillance of a microsoft 11 laptop and made it into a fighter jet, it is constantly gobbling up, receiving, and sending data... which is exactly what makes it such a powerful asset... but need I remind you... looks over at the dumpsterfire that is the U.S. it was designed over there.
Honestly, I would be very surprised if the f35 didn't have multiple kill switches purposefully built into the design from agencies that actually have no idea the other agency or entity also put a killswitch into the f35. I don't know if I believe any single person actually knows all of the backdoors that were essentially designed into the aircraft.
Why wouldn't the plane be an endless hallway of backdoors for U.S. military industrial interests and intelligence agencies? Every creator of weapons of war since the first weapon would do the same thing if they had the chance and didn't care about the consequences (the U.S. clearly does not care about the consequences if you haven't noticed).
As evidence: see any modern smartphone, computer, car, tractor, tv or other electronic device "from" the U.S. and imagine if any time somebody started asking difficult questions to the greedy person in charge they could pump up their toxic masculinity and attack them back with "THIS is a serious matter of national security".
Additionally something that national security staff at many major allies of the U.S. right now have to be thinking is that nobody really knows how much information has been accessed by completely untrustuable, unvetted or people proven already to be untrustworthy in the Trump administration, this is a strategic intelligence failure up and down the entire breadth and width of the U.S. military empire since potentially ANY of the information from ANY of the people that are crucial to making all of that stuff function.... well somebody might know their address now might they?
I don't relish this, this is bad, I am just being honest.
No I just didn't realize how naive you were about your privilege.
All Elon Musk has ever done to earn a living is charge people rent and own valuable things and you and are telling me I should believe Elon is against the idea of charging people rent for digital things?
lol