Wow, heckin' epic comeback good sir, upvoted and take my Reddit gold. Never heard it before. I'm just saying it's awfully convenient to the owner class that silicon valley wants to speedrun "full autonomous takeover" while politicians saw away at individuals' economic security.
I would LOVE an autonomous utopia but if Waymo wants do the "autonomous" without the social safety net, they can spare me the BS about this saving lives and admit that their automation is about the cold, hard savings of eliminating human workers
"safety" is usually the first point out of the mouth of a self-driving advocate. If safety = preservation of life, I wonder how truly "safe" full Waymo supremacy would be when there are millions of Americans who drive for a living [1], in a country where working age adults need a full-time job to get basic healthcare.
Through that lens, I honestly don't know if Waymo's future would lead to preservation of life. I actually think it might increase physical harm to Americans, only that harm is laundered out of our roadways and into our failing healthcare system.
This is an important aspect of any tech that threatens whole sectors of employment.. "safety" is always thrown into question when you cut & consolidate economic lifelines without a societal safety net. If it happens to truckers it can happen to you, too.
"Mullvad will continue to keep its values and mission separate from the broader views of its founders." - the sentence immediately following a link to Daniel's soapbox blog post
Fuck these guys for stripping away leverage from every worker in service of lining their own pockets. They would make comparisons to the automated loom making a class of workers obsolete, in order to compare their detractors to luddites. It's not a faster loom, it's a general-purpose brain replacement engine, and you aren't backwards for hating it.
LeCun, Altman, who gives a shit. AI researchers, CEOS, and publicists alike deserve the guillotine for what they're attempting to do to the average salaried employee, all in a country where one needs a good job to get healthcare.
and before someone chimes in with "well, it's not the techies' fault there is no safety net", explain the millions of dollars in political donations to deregulators on behalf of Brockman, Karp, et al. The car has no seatbelt and to these ghouls that's a feature rather than a bug.
I would LOVE an autonomous utopia but if Waymo wants do the "autonomous" without the social safety net, they can spare me the BS about this saving lives and admit that their automation is about the cold, hard savings of eliminating human workers