It was formed during the cold war to mingle in the proxy wars. We sent guns to the militias, and basically bribed towns and villages (by selective donations) to come to the USA's side. It's basically a mechanism to pay off warlord bribe demands.
Democrats abandoned the environment in lieu of this weird obsession with socialism- starting with the unions. First, Tesla was repeatedly snubbed when the Biden administration poured billions into every other car company to make them produce EVs- gleefully declaring GMC of all companies to be the Leader of EVs. Then, the COVID situation where the local staff member in government made it illegal for Tesla, and only Tesla, to continue operating. That's when Elon finally got the message that the Democratic party had abandoned him, and cared more about raising money than any kind of environment or progress. He then went on twitter, called it out, and then the entire democratic party reformed under the banner of Anti-Elon (since the whole trans and immigrant stuff was settling down a bit too much to encourage passion).
Hah, and what, pray tell, has bunderbunder done to so casually dismiss the thousands of engineers pushing the boundaries of physics in almost every single one of those companies?
I, and many others, could never go back to a vehicle that doesn't have this level of self-driving. It really is such an improvement it's crazy how little people who haven't experienced it understand.
- When it released, people were lighting Tesla stores and charging stations on fire, flipping off drivers, spitting on the cars even when kids were inside, and defacing them. This was generally supported, and for some reason a lot of people sided with the vandals in an effort to still be considered a Democrat and show hatred of The Other Side.
The overlanding issues are range and lack of major customizability. Overlanders rarely go more than 100mi out, what they love is the community and talking about all the upgrades they've done.
Musk's politics? It was Biden that chose Unions over Environmentalism and American manufacturing. Almost everything spiraled after that, to the point where people were unabashedly claiming the whole Nazi salute thing. Looking back, it was wrong to let the crazies have their way.
Has it? It was the R&D car and really cut the costs of developing the robotaxi that they're going all-in on. 48v wiring, ethernet hub, giant casting tech, and a lot more.
ICE cars are barely cheaper, almost never over any span of time due to cost of ownership, and there's no trip planning around charging. It's clear you've never done a road trip in a Tesla. Almost all Tesla owners have had ICE cars first, not sure who you're trying to convince here with your lies.
The subway has some great efficiency gains because it's use is so narrow. It can only transport humans and small amounts of luggage, and only goes from point to point with no variability or any real use for transporting any of the materials those people need to survive. You're just dumping the costs off to other areas.
Also, if you factor in the construction, idk what the timeline to pay that off would be.
You're talking about the difference between towing and not towing per vehicle, not the difference in energy used towing between vehicles.
To get their equal ranges, a Ford Raptor would have a ~4 gallon tank. The fact that the cybertruck can go so far while not towing is the miracle. How far do you think you're going to get with 4 gallons?
It's still pretty inconsistent, slow, and expensive. I have claude write up massive prompts with reference images and it'll still come out poorly, but since I'm not generating much revenue with the product I use these models for, I just accept a lot of the sloppiness. I have tried a lot of different prompts, I think video just has a lot more free space to differ from our mental models than something like code that is a lot more well-defined.
It has to be Google, since OpenAI always compares to other companies when it feels its winning at some benchmarks. They didn't even compare on cost, speed, or any benchmarks at all.
It's like Netflix- scrolling around looking at previews gives you all the dopamine, by the time you select a movie your brain just craves the phone and it's just background. You don't get doordash because you want to order a good, balanced, healthy meal. You do it because you want to scroll and find something that makes your brain tingle. By the time the food shows up cold 45min later, you're already on to the next thing.
Firefighter made software to trade shifts across departments, something that was previously asking your friends to ask their friends if anyone could cover them, now everyone can just pose a shift they'd like covered and can trade. Machinist used it to find a special, old and pretty rare lubricant for a tool that you can't buy online anymore. It saw a shop going out of business with a similar tool, he called the guy and was able to buy some. Also custom scheduling software for the shop, to fit around their way of doing business, where all the commercial software options were mostly for large quantities and defined schedules. Also, they had been going back-and-forth with a wordpress-based agency for two years on a website. I made a new one to their liking and got it deployed on cloudflare for free within a day- and they can make minor edits.
You are describing ASI, AGI is just the stage where it doesn't need to be trained on a specific, narrow task to succeed (like with ANI). You are asking for Agency and motivation, something particularly lacking even in most humans. All the top labs are working to ensure AI doesn't gain that motivation, but I think it exists in living beings only as a evolutionary necessity, not as an artifact of reasoning ability. The entire religion of Buddhism is about abandoning the base human desire to do things and then more things in the endless cycle we possess.
Idk, sounds to me like you're in an isolated bubble and when change comes it'll hit HARD. Or you can become Amish and try to make things work for yourself. Every single one of those trades has companies doing much better because they've adopted technology, even a spreadsheet for paying taxes and tracking hours.
Sounds to me like you're bitter and not trusted with business operations for any of those companies.
Please do a youtube series where you ask random people on the street some questions and have them go against Opus 5.5. The model is definitely smarter than me in many ways- it would obliterate me in trivia, could write a poem in iambic pentameter before I could remember or look up what exactly the rules for it are, would probably dominate me at chess or football strategy, would do a better job at taxes, and for sure writes better code outside my small little slice of specialty. It definitely parses and diagnoses logs better than me unless I wrote all the loggging statements myself.
I have to ask, what humans do you know that have more general intelligence? This isn't a dream team where you can say "Magnus Carlson can beat it at chess, and Linus can write better C code", this is a comparison across all domains and levels of intelligence. Even its IQ is estimated at 141, which is seriously higher than the average human. The average human's reading level is atrocious. The average human cannot write a standard 5 paragraph essay about a random topic.
Very true, creating a lot of content and using the algorithms as a testbed is much different from curating a performant codebase. One example of how the models have improved in the latter regard is how Opus really seems to go the extra mile, on things I might skip purely from a time/effort savings perspective. There are a lot of optional fields that have different defaults in different environments, and I wouldn't typically explicitly define them myself until there was a problem, but Opus will now go through and set those values without me asking. I still make some modifications (as it's easier to spot an error rather than set everything from scratch), but it's very helpful.
Not at all, the subscriptions have an adjusted gross margin of approximately 85%. Very profitable! The training is a different story though. How long will the subs last if they stop training? Also, why on earth would they put on the breaks and try to be profitable when they have plenty of funds and are in the growth stage?
wow really? Nov 2025 I was still fighting blatant hallucinations in helm charts. Now I'm two prompts away from a new build published on the app store and 5 video reels in the queue complete with captions and everything