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Try Tesla self-driving. It will blow your mind!
13 September
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From one piece How to Buy a Tesla and Get FSD For Free 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Tesla will eventually upgrade Hardware 3 cars to newer self-driving hardware, possibly for free.Their words
I think it's inevitable that a HW3 will be able to be upgraded, possibly for free.
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Even without new hardware, the pace of improvement is extremely fast.
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The cultural prohibition on micromanagement is harmful Great individuals should be fully empowered to exercise their judgment
31 August
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AI models are gullible enough that other AI models can induce them into harmful behavior.Their words
The models are pretty gullible and can be induced to do bad things, including and especially by other models
29 August
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The idea that individual action cannot help stop climate change is a more damaging lie than climate denial itself.Their words
The most harmful lie being spread about climate change today is not that it is fake. It's that nothing you can do can help save the world.
27 August
From one piece Meta settles with the states over child safety failures 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Whether American teenagers should be harassed after 10 p.m. by engagement-baiting push notifications ought to be a matter for Congress, not the social media cartel.
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judges and juries have begun to accept the argument that platform design is not covered by either of those, and companies can be punished for harmful features.
25 August
21 August
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In short, the venture capitalists and CEOs of Silicon Valley have priced the costs of shame into their business plans.
19 August
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if I was stuck in this traffic every day in a car, I would go insane. No amount of self driving would change that. We need ACs, but the US badly needs to warm up to public transportation.
16 August
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From one piece Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: The Demo Is Only 1% Of The Work 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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in the areas where we operate, the Waymo driver is about 17 times better than human drivers when it comes to crashes uh that cause serious injury.
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Waymo's demo took eighteen months and the product took fifteen years — the gap between the two is the whole job.Their words
It took us about 10 more years to begin providing a service, and then 5 more years to scale to half a million trips per week. So, the demo took 18 months, the product took about 15 years.
31 July
22 July
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France and Germany will ban Tesla's full self-driving to protect their own car industry.Their words
The French and Germans will ban Tesla FSD to protect their car industry that's being decimated by Chinese EVs and Tesla Allowing Tesla full self driving would make it so popular that it'd probably the end of their car industry Because no French or German car has self driving like Tesla, many customers would probably flock to Tesla
7 July
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Several companies have tried to declare they met a major milestone by having "nobody behind the wheel" and moving supervision to the passenger seat. It's a bad idea
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Robotaxis should be judged and regulated on comparable fleet-wide incident data, not on individual incidents.Their words
More data for better comparisons are good. Now everybody has to do it, and regulators and the public have to learn to look at only the data, and not individual incidents
2 June
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To a certain extent, the concerns about cognitive offloading are an example of technological lag, where the mainstream discussion of AI and its impact is still framed in terms of the first-generation chatbots.
26 May
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13 years ago, at the Wired 2013 event in London, I was asked when robotaxis would arrive there and as a joke, gave an answer of June 22, 2026 that turned out to be impossibly spot on.
14 May
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I wish Tensor the best, but I think this is going to be a hard sell.
17 April
14 April
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Self-driving cars seem to be just more cars, and people who dislike cars don't love that. But the electric robotaxi offers much more potential
7 April
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Libertarians always want to let industries regulate themselves, arguing that if they do harmful things then the market will respond. But the market will only notice immediate, severe harm.
0058: borrow-checking surprises, books, linksscattered-thoughts.net
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From one piece Predictions Scorecard, 2026 January 01 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Tesla's robotaxi service is a facade rather than a real driverless service, and it is not on a path to becoming one.Their words
Tesla (owned by Tesla) has put on a facade of being operational, but it is not operational in the sense of the other two services, and faces regulatory headwinds that both Waymo and Zoox have long been able to satisfy. They are not on a path to becoming a real service.
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Systems which do require remote operations assistance to get full reliability cut into that economic advantage and have a higher burden on their ROI calculations to make a business case for their adoption and therefore their time horizon to scaling across geographies.
12 December 2025
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And my hunch is that the archaeological evidence that we have on this score is ultimately misleading, because I think this: that probably for a very, very long time before the Sumerians, people in the world, the world of what we call the Middle East, were in contact.
25 November 2025
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A five-year-old's vision is already good enough to drive a car, on a tiny and strikingly undiverse amount of data.Their words
At least for me, when I remember myself being 5 years old, my I was I was very excited about cars back then, and I'm pretty sure my car recognition was more than adequate for self-driving already.
18 November 2025
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A twist works best when it is discoverable on rewatch rather than achieved by directly misleading the audience.Their words
Instead, the filmmakers directly misled the audience rather than crafting a clever deception discoverable on rewatch.
Frozen's Lie: How a Tiny Detail Can Ruin a Storynateliason.com
17 October 2025
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Self-driving has not removed the human from the car; it has moved them somewhere the passenger cannot see them.Their words
I think some of the times they are but they're certainly involved and there are people and in some sense we haven't actually removed the person we've like moved them to somewhere where we can't see them.
30 September 2025
From one piece Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #482 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The investigation itself should have never been started. It's an absurd and harmful way of solving an issue such as complicated as regulating social media. It is just the wrong tool.
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Yeah, I think overabundance paralyzes motivation and willpower. It's extremely harmful, particularly for young boys, to grow up in an environment where they can be proud, not of their own achievements, but of their father's achievements or their father's wealth.
28 September 2025
12 September 2025
From one piece Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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uh common sense meaning the ability to make inferences about what might happen uh that are reasonable guesses but that do not require you to experience that mistake and learn and learn from it in advance that's tremendously important and that's something that we basically had no idea how to do uh about 5 years ago but now uh you we can actually use LLMs and VLMs ask them questions and they will make reasonable guesses
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So, that's not an argument about robotics being easier than autonomous driving. It's just an argument for 2025 being a better year than 2009.
8 September 2025
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We are all - each and every one of us - capable of great evil, and we are far better of is we recognize it.
2 August 2025
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Some models could be used both for good and ill, yes. Diffusion models in particular could be used by bad actors to hallucinate toxins or other harmful proteins.
AI could help lead to an Alzheimer's cureblog.jacobtrefethen.com
8 July 2025
From one piece What I learned watching 78 videos from Tesla's Austin robotaxis 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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These videos exceeded my expectations. Tesla’s robotaxi rollout wasn’t perfect, but it went as well as anyone could have expected.
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A good robotaxi demonstration in one city does not mean the company is ready to scale the service.Their words
But I don’t think Tesla’s accomplishments over the last two weeks—impressive as they are—mean that Tesla is ready to quickly scale up its service.
16 June 2025
22 April 2025
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That's much better than current FSD, but much worse than humans or Waymo.
26 March 2025
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Even if we assume all three of these crashes were Waymo’s fault, that would still mean that a large majority of the 38 serious crashes were not Waymo’s fault.
19 February 2025
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Despite misleading statements by mainstream education economists, college attendance in particular is not a good career investment for most of the population.
7 January 2025
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Personally, I would trust a self-driving car more than the average stranger to give me a lift.
1 January 2025
From one piece Predictions Scorecard, 2025 January 01 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Waymo now has a service that looks and feels like this in San Francisco, 8 years earlier than I predicted. But it is not what every one was expecting. There are humans in the loop.
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Actual self-driving turned out to be far harder than almost everyone believed it would be.Their words
Actual self-driving is now generally accepted to be much harder than every one believed.
9 September 2024
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Riding in a Waymo robotaxi is a better overall experience than being driven by a human driver.Their words
I found it to be a superior experience to a human driver, for a few key reasons.
Inflecting and Overtaking, SunPower, Waymonathanielbullard.com
17 June 2024
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At current deployment rates it will take Waymo about 20 years with ZERO fatalities to show they are net as safe as average human driver fatality rates (including the old cars, impaired drivers, etc. in that comparison baseline).
Perspective on Waymo's Safety Progresssafeautonomy.blogspot.com
16 June 2024
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4 June 2024
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But their latest study is for only 7.1 million miles. They need something like 40 times more data prove they are actually saving lives with statistical confidence (likely even more).
Waymo's Misleading Claim of Saving Livessafeautonomy.blogspot.com
3 June 2024
21 May 2024
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If Waymo vehicles were constantly asking for remote guidance, Waymo might need to hire so many remote operators that it negates the cost savings that come from not needing a driver.
18 February 2024
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The executives building addictive platforms know what the harm is and build them anyway.Their words
The tech CEOs know this is harmful, but they do it anyway.
29 December 2023
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At a higher level, the real event was a catastrophic failure of the industry's strategy of relentlessly shouting as loud as they can "Hey, get off our case, we're busy saving lives here!"
My Automated Vehicle Safety Prediction for 2024safeautonomy.blogspot.com
28 September 2023
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So it's like, is that problematic? I don't think so because fundamentally you're not causing harm in that world. So I think that part of the question that I think we need to figure out is what are the ways where things could have been harmful in the physical world that we'll now be freed from that? And therefore there should be fewer restrictions in the digital world.
16 July 2023
From one piece AV Safety and the False Dilemma Fallacy 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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They frame the situation as a choice between continued human drivers killing people (without statistical context) vs. immature robotaxis who don't drink and drive (but make other mistakes).
AV Safety and the False Dilemma Fallacysafeautonomy.blogspot.com
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It is too early to know whether robotaxis are safer than human drivers where it counts, in fatal crashes.Their words
It is too early to know whether current robotaxi technology is safer than human drivers for fatalities.
AV Safety and the False Dilemma Fallacysafeautonomy.blogspot.com
1 December 2022
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