That’s annoying, it totally displayed on my side. I think I fixed it now, but kinda ruined my joke…

Ok Doug

I’m reading the Percy Jackson books with my kid right now and I have to say, they’re very well written. For kid/teen literature, i’d say there’s a lot to like in the series, fun dialogue, characters with a lot of personality a fascinating and magical, yet recognizable fantasy world. I’m certainly enjoying it much more than I did the Harry Potter series.

Also the percy Jackson TV series is great too. The movies are hot trash though, wouldn’t recommend them.

I did say that, because this isn’t a pie chart situation, it’s a Venn diagram situation.

For instance, AI art is 99% theft and 60% garbage. It’s both because there’s overlap.

Stolen and bad aren’t opposites, why would this be a dichotomy?

Threes

Lyne

Then bring someone tastier than you. That’s a tried and true method

Oh, I enjoy lots of great art! But do you think I watch every film? Listen to every band? There’s tons of shit out there!

Do you really believe, of all the songs that are written every day, that less than a third are crap? Even Taylor Swift doesn’t publish everything she does. Sometimes you work on something for weeks and then end up tossing it in the bin. More often, you work on something for 30 minutes before deciding “I’m gonna start over, try something different”. The majority of art is crap, but then you keep the stuff you think works.

And what’s that expression, “good artists copy, great artists steal”. I mean, that’s a bit satirical, but the fact is, everything is derivative to some degree. It’s not that there aren’t new ideas, it’s just that our new ideas are based on older ones. We stand on the shoulders of giants (or at least, on the shoulders of some people who came before us).

All I was really saying, was that the accusation “2 parts copying, 1 part crap”, well honestly that’s par for the course, that’s how humans work. (And we do some great work that way).

Bring bug spray.

AI artworks 1/3rd shite and 2/3rds theft.

To be fair, that could be said of most art.

So… Ted voted against his own bill?

Really you don’t want hackers using your random Internet appliance as a point of attack to access your whole network.

More IoT devices means a greater attack surface. And it’s an appliance you don’t actually want to spend time thinking about. You don’t want to waste time troubleshooting network issues with your dehumidifier… It just needs to work, or you use a different one.

Probably lots of people in red states. Farmers for instance, people who generally buy the Republican bullshit, but may personally rely heavily on immigrant workers. ICE puts them in a really tough position.

There could be money involved…

Over the next 5 years I don’t see anything positive in tech and I see myself largely disconnecting from it.

Ironically I’m optimistic about the next 50 years, just I don’t see anything good happening right now.

You mean besides masturbate?

What types of data does the US sell to advertisers?

Types you haven’t even thought of. Every type of data is sold, and then derivatives of data are sold. Directly collected data, inferred data, guesses, it’s all packaged up.

You seem really invested in making sure Teslas are off the road, but not at all interested in regulation that would keep all dangerous autonomous vehicles off the road. So… do you work for BMW, or Waymo?

I don’t understand the complaint. I mean given their track record, with a system like this, they wouldn’t be on the road.

You know, unless it all worked.

That’s almost like a “three strikes” rule for drunk drivers.

Oh man, that would be amazing. If after 3 strikes, all drunk driving could be eliminated… If only we could be so lucky.

He’s not talking about a per-vehicle points system, he’s talking about a global points system for Tesla inc. If after a few incidents, essentially Tesla FSD had it’s license revoked across the whole fleet, I mean, that’s pretty strict accountability I’d say. That’s definitely not handing out free passes, it’s more like you get a few warnings and a chance to fix issues before the entire program is ended nation wide.

You weren’t the user who posted that video, but you seem to be quite knowledgeable in this specific case…

Can you link that crash report? Or can you cite some confirmed details about the incident?