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I quite literally couldn't stay awake for Andor. Five minutes into each episode I was out cold. Saying it's a "slow burn" is quite the understatement.

For the Fox News crowd, which is most of his supporters, they are likely not even aware of these transgressions, as they are not reported there. Or, if they are aware, they are happy to see Trump enriching himself, because, own the libs or something?

It's the job of the Congress to hold the executive branch accountable, with the ultimate endpoint being impeachment and removal if necessary. Unfortunately, the Senate republicans are completely sold out to the cult of Trump so there will be no relief from that quarter.

Some of them are lawyers, some even with law enforcement background.

They should be well aware of what extortion is.

If Trump did it on his own that's one thing if not it's a conspiracy.


They’re aware.

I haven't checked on this in a long time, but IIRC, the insurance company will always blame the person in back in a rear-end collision, for just this reason. A rear-end collision should always be avoidable.


Usually but not always. A common insurance scam is to pass a car, cut in just in front of it, then brake hard causing a collision. Dash cams video is a good thing to have to fight this if it happens to you.


No, even then. If a car cuts in front of you, you have at least a few seconds of time to start making space for them, and once they are in front of you, you should immediately make a safe amount of space between you and them.

Yes, in a country where safe driving is not internalized you will inevitable have someone rear-ending you while doing this, but if the options are "accident where you're at fault" and "accident where you're not at fault", pick the latter.


I think you’re misunderstanding, the person pulling in front is not giving you seconds to make space - they are deliberately trying to crash into you.


AI doesn't "want to" control air traffic. It doesn't have any desire or ambition. That's what the humans are for.

It is merely a tool like a hammer. The hammer doesn't build the house, it is the human who wields the hammer that builds the house.


I didn't say it wants to do anything. It also doesn't want to build software. But why would it be the case that an AI told to build an air traffic control software could successfully do that, but an AI told to make sure planes arrive where they're supposed to safely and on time won't be able to figure out the rest?

Now, I'm not saying it's impossible for there to be something that makes the first job significantly easier than the second, but it's strange for me to assume that an AI would definitely be able to do the former soon, yet not the latter. I think it could be reasonable to believe it will be able to do neither or both soon, but I don't understand how we can expect the ability line to just happen to fall between software and pretty much everything else.


This somewhat falls apart the second you realize that current models are already choosing which tools to use all the time. You can argue that's not "desire" but I'm not sure you'd convince me.

Frankly - even the other end of your argument is weak. Humans don't particularly want to control air traffic either (otherwise why are we having to pay those air traffic controllers their salaries to be there?). They do it as a function of achieving a broader goal.


We've noticed this in our neighborhood. Once a year we host a few families before going out trick or treating with our kids. We buy a bunch of pizza so everyone can eat and don't ask for the other families to kick in.

We were hoping the other families would reciprocate, and maybe invite us to some of their gatherings (especially two families who hang out together quite a bit.) So far it hasn't happened at all, they just receive our graciousness and move on immediately.


> they just receive our graciousness

Or think they’re doing you a favor by not rejecting your invite


Potluck parties help. Then they, generally, at least partly participated. Some people will just bring soda or chips or beer but that's still better than 0.


So you set something up to weasel your way into other "families" friendships by doing a specific thing and then judging their response/non-response? Like A/B testing humans.

Perhaps some people can sense this stuff subconsciously. Relationships should build naturally.


I guess then, that he is relying on his customers not discovering that there are options out there that will do this for them, without a "middle man" as it were. Seems like shaky ground to be standing on, but I suppose it can work for a while, if he already has good relationships in his industry.


I think what he does is thinking in possibilities, just what an entrepreneur should do.


Waymo is doing very well around San Francisco, which is certainly very challenging city driving. Yes, it doesn't snow there. Maybe areas with winter storms will never have autonomous vehicles. That doesn't mean there isn't a lot of utility created even now.


My original point, clearly badly phrased given the responses I got, is that the promises have been exceeding the reality for a decade.

Musk's claims about what Tesla's would be able to do wasn't limited to just "a few locations" it was "complete autonomy" and "you'll be able to summon your car from across the country"… by 2018.

And yet, 2025, leaves: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46095867


Seeing images like that are always a good reminder that LLM's don't actually "know" anything.


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