Floptimus Prime
(midwest.social)
People TwitterFull self driving by 2016!!!!
I ended up in a situation where I got picked up by a cyber truck of all things, and the current state of self driving is better than I expected, but I still don't trust it. It drove weirdly aggressively and lurchy, even doing frequent lane changes to get ahead, and while the car and people detection worked, the render on the screen was concerning because everything wiggles creepily and disappears and reappears.
Driving it manually seems like a terrible idea as well. No line of sight visibility at all behind and rear sides, way too much blind spot in the front.
10 years after promised completion and it only feels like starting the 'getting there' phase.
When will people realize that Elon only has one trick: lie really baldly really publicly, pressure the shit out of a bunch of smart engineers until they get to their breaking point, and if it works you’re a “genius” — if it doesn’t, just throw it on the pile of other completely outlandish shit that you said that never mattered.
You missed the critical middle step of pumping up market valuation so you can borrow against the hype.
Surely there is a dump step following the pump?
Or is it pump, borrow, repeat?
Borrowing against shares is the dump.
Elon needs all of his companies to stay in growth valuation mode. The moment people start pricing them like stable, mature companies (or worse) he’s kinda screwed.
Cultists do not like when you point out their fairy-deity is full of shit
Most people don't like when their ego is threatened. They'll make up any excuse to protect their flimsy sense of self worth.
It's easier to just go "I guess I was wrong" but most people are emotionally fucking cowards.
It's easier to just go "I guess I was wrong" but most people are emotionally fucking cowards.
It really seems like this is easier to me too. The older I get the more I realize that this is one of the most difficult things for a ton of people to do and I don't understand why. Do they genuinely think they are incapable of being wrong? I don't think there's anything special about me so why does this seem so hard for almost everyone else?
Do they genuinely think
Given that this is about emotions, not thoughts, you're starting off on the wrong direction.
I wonder about this a lot, too!
Some cursory searching shows a variety of causes. Maybe from a young age they were repeatedly taught that being wrong made them bad and stupid and unworthy of love, and that's deeply wound around their subconscious now.
It'd be just sad if it wasn't causing incalculable harm to society.
Some people have such a fragile ego, such brittle self-esteem, such a weak "psychological constitution," that admitting they made a mistake or that they were wrong is fundamentally too threatening for their egos to tolerate. Accepting they were wrong, absorbing that reality, would be so psychologically shattering that their defense mechanisms do something remarkable to avoid doing so—they literally distort their perception of reality to make it (reality) less threatening. Their defense mechanisms protect their fragile ego by changing the very facts in their mind, so they are no longer wrong or culpable.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-squeaky-wheel/201811/why-some-people-will-never-admit-that-theyre-wrong
:shrug:
absolutely
Hey, Elon, you’re the world’s richest loser.
Soyyyyyyy..... un perdedor!!!!!!
... so why don't we kill him?
Lyrically, of course.
Like no really, him and all these fuckers have eggshells for egos... mock them relentlessly, gloriously, they will crack.
Well, 2026 isn’t over yet.
Considering the resource-raping and the complete absence of Asimov's Laws, we're better off without.
The entire point of the I, Robot anthology is that the three laws don’t work.
True, because it's too easy to subvert them surreptitiously, and yet the present plan of openly seeking world domination, starting by running over schoolchildren and telling teens to commit suicide, is worse.
