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?

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).

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…

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?

Not the article, the post from njordamir that you were directly replying to.

shouldn’t accountability be in place now,

Again literally what that user was suggesting

Actually, lots. The issue is that if it doesn’t work it’s dangerous.

Man, I cannot figure out why that vehicle was turning. What is it trying to avoid? Why does it think there could be road there? Why doesn’t it try to correct its action mid way?

I’m really concerned about that last question. I have to assume that at some point prior to impact, the system realized it made a mistake. Surely. So why didn’t it try to recover from the situation? Does it have a system for recovering from errors, or does it just continue and say “well I’ll get it next time, now on with the fetal crash”?

and these robo taxis don’t have drivers.

Oh yes they do… The diver is Tesla, inc. There’s no problem with charging a company fines, that’s easy. It is difficult to issue higher penalties though, jail time, or license revocation. We’ll need to work out solutions for that, they should not get off free.

But we can certainly fine the driver…

There’s no accountability for this horribly dangerous driving, so they shouldn’t be on the road. Period.

Well that’s exactly what their post was about, adding accountability.

Yeah, that’s cool.

Well I guess my opinion is that it’s essentially never “legitimate” to be the aggressor. Determining which party is the aggressor can sometimes be complicated, but it often boils down to this: which party is crossing the border?

In this case, I’m sure many would say that Iran took the first aggressive action by pursuing a nuclear program, but I have a few issues with that. First, Israel already has nuclear weapons, so surely that is an earlier provocation. Secondly, Iran still isn’t crossing the border, Israel was first to pull the trigger, and they pulled a lot of triggers (in Iranian territory). And finally, Israel and Iran have been in the process of forging nuclear treaties many times now, and nearly every time Israel has sabotaged the talks with provocative, often military actions, or they simply left the table - it seems clear to me that Israel does not want a nuclear deal, they will not accept any kind of compromise.

I mean, lead is a very common element and can have many legitimate uses. If we’re talking about using some amount of lead in a camera sensor, do understand how tiny camera sensors are. This is likely a very insignificant amount of lead. And it will be fused into this sensor, it’s not likely to ever leave the confines of the component’s plastic casing, behind a lens, with a phone. That’s very different from say, mixing it into gasoline and burning it.

I’ve heard there’s been some real breakthroughs in perovskite for solar cells in just the last few years. As you said, chemical instability is supposed to be their primary weakness, but my understanding is that progress has been made in finding the perfect chemical makeup for the “sandwiching” materials between layers of perovskite. I’m pretty sure that “perfect” chemical makeup is the proprietary trade secret variety, so I don’t really know much more about it.

And admittedly, I’ve never been in the field of materials science, so you’re much more of an expert in this area. But I’ve been following a lot of green energy news, and I know promising progress is actively being made on perovskite.