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What do you expect from the regal journalistic integrity of the Pulitzer Prize-winning site Comics Sands?

Why does the most reasonable and balanced take have the most downvotes?

This is absolutely the journalists' fault. It doesn't matter if its AI-generated or not.

While I agree with your assessment, I just don’t think capitalism, at least in it’s current form, is equipped to handle this at all. You could say this is due to our government ineptitude, but we are not addressing these problems appropriately.

Yes, in its current form. Which is too large, and has gotten to the point where it corrupts the regulatory controls that are supposed to counterbalance it.

So, I will say that it's due to our governmental ineptitude. I will say that very fucking loudly.

Our regulatory bodies are being constantly undermined by out of control presidents and congress.

If only we didn't have political parties who's goal it is to "cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub." Parties who actively want to dismantle our current democratic institutions and replace it with a dystopian corpocracy.

As somebody fairly well-versed in the tech, and have done more than just play around with ChatGPT, I can tell you that self-driving AI is not going to be here for at least another 40-50 years. The challenges are too great, and the act of driving a car takes a lot of effort for even a human to achieve. There are too many fatal edge cases to consider already, and the current tech is tripping over its balls trying to do the most basic things, killing people in the process. When we have these cars that are sabotaged by a simple traffic cone on the windshield, or mistakes a tractor-trailer for the sky, then we know that this tech is far worse than human drivers, despite all of the bullshit we had been told otherwise.

Level 5 autonomous driving is simply not a thing. It will never be a thing for a long time.

Billions of dollars poured into the tech has gotten us a bunch of aggressive up-starts, who think they can just ignore the fatalities as the money comes pouring, and lie to our face about the capabilities of the technology. These companies need to be driven off of cliff and buried in criminal cases. They should not be protected by the shield of corporate personhood and put up for trial, but here we fucking are now...

"Tries" implied they failed. Is this provision still on the table?

That's precisely what I was comparing it to. Transporting somebody in a car for 15 minutes is much different than providing housing, a bed, and a livable space for a week.

It's not. I wish it was, but it's not.

Why would I follow a specific person for non-video content? That strikes me as way too parasocial to me. All that person is going to tell me is their personal opinion, and I barely trust the news articles that appear here, much less some famous person's random opinion.

I don't get it, either. I use a plugin to expand horizontal space on Lemmy, because I already hate how much real estate it wastes. Mastodon is much much worse, with this aesthetic that forces you to use a mobile "long-ways" view of the content.

I'm convinced that Mastodon is more popular only because Elon has pissed off Twitter users more than Spez has pissed off Reddit users.

I can barely trust some rando to drive me around to a destination in the city. Why would I trust other randos to let me rent and use their house? And not break housing or safety laws in the process? It is 100x more complicated than just driving me from point A to point B.

After hearing about all of the reckless radium and uranium use during the 1920s, nothing like this surprises me.