China is far more prosperous because... erm... some people with great POWER and ZERO ETHICAL CONCERNS decided to M-A-K-E CHINA PROSPEROUS. There is NOTHING special in any way about China as a manufacturing location, unless you are a LEFT IDEOLOGUE masquerading as a WESTERN CAPITALIST. =) There are at least 70 cheap countries in the world that could manufacture ANYTHING China can given a fraction of the investment. But the BIG MONEY from around the WORLD is being FUNNELED to China. Of course that makes sense to the SHITSTAINS running this SHITSHOW - you can get away with things in the OPEN AIR PRISON that is the PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA that you cannot get away with anywhere else. No democracy. No human rights. No religious ethics. No God. No law. No constraints. No consequences for anything wicked being done to people there. So WHO are the powerful people who decided that HUNDREDS OF FECKLESS NEW DOLLAR BILLIONAIRES should be created in CHINA of all countries? and WHY CHINA when so many other countries can do the same? Waiting for your response...
There aren't even solid statistics or reports on human rights abuses in China. China could makes hundreds of people "disappear" in any given year, and you might hear of "one or two" people in China who have gone missing. Have you ever seen documentary camera footage of the inside of a Chinese prison or detention center? Precisely what does happen when police pick someone up in China? Are they read their "Miranda Rights", or are they just dragged away and terrorized?
Except that makeup is bound by "physical universe" constraints. Like photons bouncing off it and into the camera sensor or photochemical film. Image processing algorithms on the other hand are NOT bound by these constraints. Image processing can create "skin looks" that are practically impossible to achieve with even the best makeup. You are looking a celebs that have a "heavenly glow" or "saintly glow" to them anywhere, in all locations, under all lighting conditions. You are essentially creating "digitally enhanced Gods and Goddesses" out of slightly-better-than-ordinary looking mortals who are famous for doing whatever. People who look supernaturally amazing, always, in any situation. And of course this tech is eventually going to deliver "super beautiful skin looks" when it goes 3D-aware as well. You'll be able to play God with the specularity, reflectance, sub-surface scattering and other aspects of actor or model skin, resulting in skin that looks so "alluring" that no man or woman in real life can match it with ANY skin product. Thus lifting "celebrities" very high above "ordinary mortals" in terms of how they look. Today you can go out on the street and see real-life people who look just as good as the best looking celebs or better. Tomorrow, you may find that digitally enhanced millionaire or billionaire celebrities look so amazing that everyone else just looks tired or ugly by comparison. Is that a good thing?
Communists tend to "lock up" people with good intentions and high ideals - idealists, human rights campaigners, writers, intellectuals. Musk on the other hand is "billions of Dollars unencumbered by democratic ideals and human rights constraints just walked in the door" for China. Musk is exactly what they want - a wealthy industrialist who'll ignore China's horrific human rights abuses and manufacture and sell there anyway. Maybe they offered him the "Dragon Card" because he, for enough dough and benefits, offered to give China some of his SpaceX tech as well? The world is a complicated and often "upside-down" place. "Heroes of Innovation" are sometimes not "true heroes" in real life. A hero is someone who does NOT do anything he or she CAN do for big money. "Resisting temptation" and all that? =)
...when the electrical vehicles are being made right under your nose. And by the way, is it ethical at all to manufacture anything in a 1 billion strong COMMUNIST country where citizens have minimal rights, if any? Couldn't you make stuff just as cheaply in Ghandi's India, where - at the very least - people get to vote in local and national elections, and might want a factory job or two to feed their children as well? Couldn't you manufacture cheaply in Vietnam, Bangladesh or Africa, or Latin America as well? Why China, China, China all the time? Factories don't function elsewhere? Who the fuck came up with the idea of pouring Trillions of manufacturing Dollars every year into the last not-so-great bastion of Communist Political Rule? Obviously someone to whom Universal Democractic Ideals and Human Rights was "an odious ideal". I'd feel a lot better if the tech shit I buy was NOT MANUFACTURED IN BLOODY CHINA. There are dozens of underdeveloped but reasonably FREE countries where people need jobs just as badly as China, and who'd jump on the opportunity to manufacture even a QUARTER of the stuff China makes right now. But no - it has to be China, China, China apparently... because "Made In China" makes a product EXTRA SPECIAL, you see?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... So they did the same PR stunt 3 years ago in Russia, and now blame a Tesla for "Killing A Robot" in Nevada. LMAO. What a crappy company this must be...
What makes you think that these cameras CAN'T see through duct or black tape just fine? Unless the tape 100% blocks ALL photons going to the camera sensor, computer vision algorithms can still see through that tape and even de-distort the distortion caused by the tape. You might have better chances putting an inch-thick lead plate in front of those cameras in the car...
There are Stereo 3D cameras that cost around 200 Dollars. And that's only because they are manufactured in quantities of a few ten thousands at a time. Most smartphones of the next generation will have 3D cameras and 3D processing built in. So 3D cameras will get a lot cheaper soon.
So you couldn't have a few OPEN SOURCE car/vehicle platforms that - much like Linux - are created by hundreds of volunteer engineers around the world and are no less safe & reliable than large car maker platforms? Or have OPEN SOURCE VEHICLE-DESIGNING AI that lets you rattle down a list of "wishes" for your dream car, and then creates a ready-to-3D-print-and-drive-away version of just such a car? Even aerodynamic performance and virtual crash testing is within the reach of such an AI or machine learning system. So the idea of highly-customized-on-demand-3D-printed-cars is not airy-fairy fantasy. Very much technically doable even with today's technology.
So you think a large 3D printer capable of printing a fully functioning state-of-the-art production car in 20 minutes is completely out of reach? Not technically possible? Even 10 years from now in 2029? LMAO! It will be TODAY'S dumb mass-manufacturing methods that will be laughed at as "archaic" 10 years from now, not superfast, supercheap 3D printers capable of printing everything from cars to airliners to cruiseliners zip zip zip. =)
What makes you think that Musk isn't part of the gang of Orwell Car manufacturers? That he won't be one of the first to put these interior cameras in Teslas?
A large enough, sophisticated enough 3D printer 10 years from now will have no problems whatsoever printing out a fully functioning production car. The party won't last long for the car manufacturers. By that time their reputation will be in the SEWER, and there will be a booming market for highly customized 3D printed cars created by much smaller outfits, which in turn will one day become bigger outfits...
The trouble is that 80% of smartphone users are not tech-savvy enough to even REALIZE what sort of data can be scraped from their phone, or through what mechanisms. Apple fanboys and girls, I'm looking at you...
...and your insurance company goes bananas with its rates - you REMOVED A VITAL SAFETY FEATURE from your car. And then the REAL POLICE pull you over for violation of your car's END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT. You see, you only had LICENSE TO DRIVE THE CAR AS-IS, and not LICENSE TO MODIFY THE CAR - which by the way, per the EULA, REMAINS PROPERTY OF THE CAR MANUFACTURER. (More seriously, a few years ago someone had a Ferrari F40 converted to Diesel fuel in Europe after buying it. Ferrari successfully claimed in court that this conversion "damaged its high-end brand". The owner of the F40 was ordered by a European kangaroo-court to return the car to Ferrari. Nobody else I know of attempted a gasoline-to-diesel conversion of a high end sportscar ever again...)
Market forces are CONTROLLED by people with very deep pockets. Arabs who invest oil-and-gas-dollars into just about everything profitable, for example. Just the mere fact that Advertising + Mainstream Media is privately owned - by the exact same capital source that is behind things like consumer products and cars - means that market forces are DIRECTED or CHOREOGRAPHED . In a pure capitalist market, market forces would be the result of consumers making decisions based on real NEEDS and WANTS, with access to PERFECT INFORMATION about the CONSEQUENCES AND POTENTIAL DISADVANTAGES of what they BUY. When you CONDITION consumers to WANT or PATHOLOGICALLY DESIRE pretty much WHATEVER MAKES BIIIG PROFIT FOR YOU, then that is NOT EVEN CAPITALISM or a FREE MARKET. A precondition of FREE MARKETS is UNFETTERED OR PERFECT ACCESS TO INFORMATION on the side of the consumers. If you HIDE from consumers the DAMAGE a product can do to their privacy, wellbeing or whatver, that is a COMMUNIST ECONOMY MODEL, not a CAPITALIST one.
The solution is simple - create 3D printers large, fast & sophisticated enough to let a few hundred consumers band together and create their own mini-car-manufacturing plant. I mean, what is sooo special about a car's chassis, engine, drivetrain or other components that a truly advanced 3D printer couldn't metal-print these components on-demand and in a highly customized way? It may be as simple as going on a website, answering two dozen questions about how you want your car to look and handle, and presto - a 3D printer equipped mini-factory 50 miles away 3D prints and assembles your fully customized dream-car. If you don't want surveillance gear in your car, then the mini-factory won't put it IN your car. =)
In a tricky driving situation where you need to swerve hard and fast, which has a better reaction time? A) An old fashioned steering wheel B) An analogue joystick?
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China is far more prosperous because... erm... some people with great POWER and ZERO ETHICAL CONCERNS decided to M-A-K-E CHINA PROSPEROUS. There is NOTHING special in any way about China as a manufacturing location, unless you are a LEFT IDEOLOGUE masquerading as a WESTERN CAPITALIST. =) There are at least 70 cheap countries in the world that could manufacture ANYTHING China can given a fraction of the investment. But the BIG MONEY from around the WORLD is being FUNNELED to China. Of course that makes sense to the SHITSTAINS running this SHITSHOW - you can get away with things in the OPEN AIR PRISON that is the PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA that you cannot get away with anywhere else. No democracy. No human rights. No religious ethics. No God. No law. No constraints. No consequences for anything wicked being done to people there. So WHO are the powerful people who decided that HUNDREDS OF FECKLESS NEW DOLLAR BILLIONAIRES should be created in CHINA of all countries? and WHY CHINA when so many other countries can do the same? Waiting for your response...
There aren't even solid statistics or reports on human rights abuses in China. China could makes hundreds of people "disappear" in any given year, and you might hear of "one or two" people in China who have gone missing. Have you ever seen documentary camera footage of the inside of a Chinese prison or detention center? Precisely what does happen when police pick someone up in China? Are they read their "Miranda Rights", or are they just dragged away and terrorized?
Except that makeup is bound by "physical universe" constraints. Like photons bouncing off it and into the camera sensor or photochemical film. Image processing algorithms on the other hand are NOT bound by these constraints. Image processing can create "skin looks" that are practically impossible to achieve with even the best makeup. You are looking a celebs that have a "heavenly glow" or "saintly glow" to them anywhere, in all locations, under all lighting conditions. You are essentially creating "digitally enhanced Gods and Goddesses" out of slightly-better-than-ordinary looking mortals who are famous for doing whatever. People who look supernaturally amazing, always, in any situation. And of course this tech is eventually going to deliver "super beautiful skin looks" when it goes 3D-aware as well. You'll be able to play God with the specularity, reflectance, sub-surface scattering and other aspects of actor or model skin, resulting in skin that looks so "alluring" that no man or woman in real life can match it with ANY skin product. Thus lifting "celebrities" very high above "ordinary mortals" in terms of how they look. Today you can go out on the street and see real-life people who look just as good as the best looking celebs or better. Tomorrow, you may find that digitally enhanced millionaire or billionaire celebrities look so amazing that everyone else just looks tired or ugly by comparison. Is that a good thing?
Communists tend to "lock up" people with good intentions and high ideals - idealists, human rights campaigners, writers, intellectuals. Musk on the other hand is "billions of Dollars unencumbered by democratic ideals and human rights constraints just walked in the door" for China. Musk is exactly what they want - a wealthy industrialist who'll ignore China's horrific human rights abuses and manufacture and sell there anyway. Maybe they offered him the "Dragon Card" because he, for enough dough and benefits, offered to give China some of his SpaceX tech as well? The world is a complicated and often "upside-down" place. "Heroes of Innovation" are sometimes not "true heroes" in real life. A hero is someone who does NOT do anything he or she CAN do for big money. "Resisting temptation" and all that? =)
...when the electrical vehicles are being made right under your nose. And by the way, is it ethical at all to manufacture anything in a 1 billion strong COMMUNIST country where citizens have minimal rights, if any? Couldn't you make stuff just as cheaply in Ghandi's India, where - at the very least - people get to vote in local and national elections, and might want a factory job or two to feed their children as well? Couldn't you manufacture cheaply in Vietnam, Bangladesh or Africa, or Latin America as well? Why China, China, China all the time? Factories don't function elsewhere? Who the fuck came up with the idea of pouring Trillions of manufacturing Dollars every year into the last not-so-great bastion of Communist Political Rule? Obviously someone to whom Universal Democractic Ideals and Human Rights was "an odious ideal". I'd feel a lot better if the tech shit I buy was NOT MANUFACTURED IN BLOODY CHINA. There are dozens of underdeveloped but reasonably FREE countries where people need jobs just as badly as China, and who'd jump on the opportunity to manufacture even a QUARTER of the stuff China makes right now. But no - it has to be China, China, China apparently... because "Made In China" makes a product EXTRA SPECIAL, you see?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... So they did the same PR stunt 3 years ago in Russia, and now blame a Tesla for "Killing A Robot" in Nevada. LMAO. What a crappy company this must be...
Dumb AI Robot gets (slightly) hit by Dumb AI Car. News at 11.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
What makes you think that these cameras CAN'T see through duct or black tape just fine? Unless the tape 100% blocks ALL photons going to the camera sensor, computer vision algorithms can still see through that tape and even de-distort the distortion caused by the tape. You might have better chances putting an inch-thick lead plate in front of those cameras in the car...
Buuut... how will they sell your wife JUST THE RIGHT MAKEUP PRODUCT FOR HER if they can't see into you car in realtime? =)
Truman-car (as in "The Truman Show") perhaps? Instagram-star-car? Douchecar? Snitchcar? Reality TV Wheels? Fanta-for-brains-wheels? =)
There are Stereo 3D cameras that cost around 200 Dollars. And that's only because they are manufactured in quantities of a few ten thousands at a time. Most smartphones of the next generation will have 3D cameras and 3D processing built in. So 3D cameras will get a lot cheaper soon.
So you couldn't have a few OPEN SOURCE car/vehicle platforms that - much like Linux - are created by hundreds of volunteer engineers around the world and are no less safe & reliable than large car maker platforms? Or have OPEN SOURCE VEHICLE-DESIGNING AI that lets you rattle down a list of "wishes" for your dream car, and then creates a ready-to-3D-print-and-drive-away version of just such a car? Even aerodynamic performance and virtual crash testing is within the reach of such an AI or machine learning system. So the idea of highly-customized-on-demand-3D-printed-cars is not airy-fairy fantasy. Very much technically doable even with today's technology.
Until the snake finally bites its tail and goes "OUCH!"? =)
So you think a large 3D printer capable of printing a fully functioning state-of-the-art production car in 20 minutes is completely out of reach? Not technically possible? Even 10 years from now in 2029? LMAO! It will be TODAY'S dumb mass-manufacturing methods that will be laughed at as "archaic" 10 years from now, not superfast, supercheap 3D printers capable of printing everything from cars to airliners to cruiseliners zip zip zip. =)
What makes you think that Musk isn't part of the gang of Orwell Car manufacturers? That he won't be one of the first to put these interior cameras in Teslas?
cartube.com... like twitch live-streamed games, except that its people in their fucking cars...
A large enough, sophisticated enough 3D printer 10 years from now will have no problems whatsoever printing out a fully functioning production car. The party won't last long for the car manufacturers. By that time their reputation will be in the SEWER, and there will be a booming market for highly customized 3D printed cars created by much smaller outfits, which in turn will one day become bigger outfits...
The trouble is that 80% of smartphone users are not tech-savvy enough to even REALIZE what sort of data can be scraped from their phone, or through what mechanisms. Apple fanboys and girls, I'm looking at you...
...and your insurance company goes bananas with its rates - you REMOVED A VITAL SAFETY FEATURE from your car. And then the REAL POLICE pull you over for violation of your car's END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT. You see, you only had LICENSE TO DRIVE THE CAR AS-IS, and not LICENSE TO MODIFY THE CAR - which by the way, per the EULA, REMAINS PROPERTY OF THE CAR MANUFACTURER. (More seriously, a few years ago someone had a Ferrari F40 converted to Diesel fuel in Europe after buying it. Ferrari successfully claimed in court that this conversion "damaged its high-end brand". The owner of the F40 was ordered by a European kangaroo-court to return the car to Ferrari. Nobody else I know of attempted a gasoline-to-diesel conversion of a high end sportscar ever again...)
Until they put video recording and wireless streaming capability in all black tape sold, har har har... =)
Market forces are CONTROLLED by people with very deep pockets. Arabs who invest oil-and-gas-dollars into just about everything profitable, for example. Just the mere fact that Advertising + Mainstream Media is privately owned - by the exact same capital source that is behind things like consumer products and cars - means that market forces are DIRECTED or CHOREOGRAPHED . In a pure capitalist market, market forces would be the result of consumers making decisions based on real NEEDS and WANTS, with access to PERFECT INFORMATION about the CONSEQUENCES AND POTENTIAL DISADVANTAGES of what they BUY. When you CONDITION consumers to WANT or PATHOLOGICALLY DESIRE pretty much WHATEVER MAKES BIIIG PROFIT FOR YOU, then that is NOT EVEN CAPITALISM or a FREE MARKET. A precondition of FREE MARKETS is UNFETTERED OR PERFECT ACCESS TO INFORMATION on the side of the consumers. If you HIDE from consumers the DAMAGE a product can do to their privacy, wellbeing or whatver, that is a COMMUNIST ECONOMY MODEL, not a CAPITALIST one.
The solution is simple - create 3D printers large, fast & sophisticated enough to let a few hundred consumers band together and create their own mini-car-manufacturing plant. I mean, what is sooo special about a car's chassis, engine, drivetrain or other components that a truly advanced 3D printer couldn't metal-print these components on-demand and in a highly customized way? It may be as simple as going on a website, answering two dozen questions about how you want your car to look and handle, and presto - a 3D printer equipped mini-factory 50 miles away 3D prints and assembles your fully customized dream-car. If you don't want surveillance gear in your car, then the mini-factory won't put it IN your car. =)
In a tricky driving situation where you need to swerve hard and fast, which has a better reaction time? A) An old fashioned steering wheel B) An analogue joystick?
Because there was a car park full of 3D CCTV camera-equipped ORWELL CARS recording its every move on this side.