My commute is 117 miles one way :(, return to office has really fucked me. I won’t be moving anytime soon but am working on getting a job closer to home.

xD agree on that point

For our lifetime maybe, but on a larger scale that is relevant to humanity as a species the trend down isn’t even visible.

Again not trying to mitigate human suffering today, but I do really take issue with people dooming all the time.

I imagine you will continue to get disliked and I will as well, but the world isn’t over and it’s not going to end for a long time. People are always going to claim doom in their current time.

No matter how fucked everything is in the world right now, we are, on average, still significantly better off than almost every other human in all of existence.

They’re getting more violent because they’re getting more views when they get violent.

The only Apple product I’ve owned was my first smartphone an iPhone 4, Never again.

Me too, although the Chinese government itself will still use this technology extensively

“I’m not here, This isn’t happening”

• How to Disappear Completely, Song by Radiohead ‧ 2000

Tesla use to have radar I believe, musk over ruled teslas using Lidar and insisted on vision only. Lidar powered autonomous vehicles like Waymo are already cruising the streets unsupervised beating tesla.

Always has been

Closed AI sucks, but there are definitely open models from American companies like meta, you make great points though. Can’t wait for more open models and hopefully, eventually, actually open source models that include training data which neither deepseek nor meta do currently.

All your reasons were valid though. Teslas were the best electric cars for a long time, probably not so anymore. Tesla as a brand has done good things, like you say opening up their charging standard which is superior to all the other competitors.

Personally, I wouldn’t get a Tesla because they are sort of like the apple of car companies, e.g. anti-consumer and anti-repair. Plus, Musk owning it is another big negative.

That’s true and I even thought about trying to investigate one of their satellites bandwidth capabilities versus one starlink satellite before I commented. But ultimately it doesn’t really matter because we’re talking about them being a rival to starlink so In the context of this conversation, they need to match their capacity and capabilities in all aspects to be a worthy rival.

Aptera, what I’m waiting for. They claim they will have all parts available online for easy repairs, and IMO it’s just a really cool car concept.

You’re correct but their LEO constellation is over 10x smaller than Starlink, so they’ve still got a lot of catching up to do.

They are doing much better than other fabled starlink competitors though, like amazon kuiper which is still not a real thing after all this time.

Authoritarian dystopia speed run, tight race with the US

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Why, use an open source standard. AV1 for the win

Deepseek can’t take down the model, it’s already been published and is mostly open source. Open source llms are the way, fuck closedAI

Not only would it be the greatest irony, it would be the best outcome for humanity. Fuck ClosedAI