It’s the top-down nature of the eugenics movement that made it so morally repugnant. “We decide who’s fit to have kids.”

It was a common view, especially among progressives, from the late 1890s to the start of WW2. The temperance movement embraced eugenics, so did the family-planning movement, and through it, early feminism.

Old man here as well. I follow the doctrine of non-repudiation: I did a lot of stupid things when I was young. But I own them and don’t hate my former self for doing them. Mind you, I didn’t hurt anyone (except emotionally, and not intentionally) and wasn’t a criminal. If that were different, maybe I’d have to process it differently.

Leaf’s tech was a joke for a long time.

It was more to do with hubris. Scaling up production of anything as complex as a car is going to result in quality issues unless your production engineers are world-class. Tesla thought they were smarter than the carmakers, and learned early in the process that that was bullshit. Then Musk came in and relied on hype rather than engineering to move units.

The Roadsters were well-made. That was when production volumes were low and Musk hadn’t bought the company yet.

It’s single-party state capitalism, so the enshittification is already neck-deep.

Agreed, No AI that I can’t turn off. No AI that can’t be turned off without disabling critical functionality.

If I buy a toaster, a fridge or a washing machine, I don’t need it to have an internet connection or an OS, let alone AI. The only thing it needs an OS for is to collect data on me that can be sold to aggregators. That should be illegal, and if I can’t disable it, I won’t buy the gadget.

Sounds fair, shut it down.

Just keep hoping for that invisible handjob.

The power consumption of a tablet is next to nothing compared to the power it takes to move an EV.

I wonder if it’s a coincidence that the security team got the sack and soon after, some servers were found to not be properly buttoned up.

What we need is techno-realism. Technology in an oppressive economic/political system will be used to achieve oppressive goals. So it’s the system that needs to be looked at, not just tech in isolation. And we should really be moving to an approach where we don’t adopt new tech unless it’s proven safe (not perfectly safe, but tolerably safe). And similarly, externalities need to be understood before mass adoption is enabled (e.g., massive power usage by shitcoins and LLMs).

Someone did the world a favor.

Somehow, I knew it was Eich man.

You know, currency you can actually buy things with.

Curated experiences are the reason we’re in the shit right now.

But yeah, maybe boutique curated exepriences will somehow be qualitatively different, and not just finer market segmentation.