... an economy where people are desperate they need an Uber job to stay afloat.
In 2015, Uber drivers averaged $19 per hour. That is more than twice the minimum wage.
The median household income in America is $53k, but many household have more than one earner. The median individual earnings are about $32k, which for a 40 hour work week, is equivalent to about $16 per hour.
So driving for Uber is a pretty good job. Better pay than most, and you have no boss looking over your shoulder, no annoying coworkers, no office politics, and you can set your own hours.
Schools are very safe. A child in America is far more likely to be shot at home. If you have been led to believe otherwise, you should reexamine your news sources.
if a person is not allowed to subcontract the work, they are considered an employee...
This is nonsense. The IRS publishes a long list of criteria for determining whether a worker can be classified as a contractor. Subcontracting is one of those criteria, but no single factor is either necessary nor sufficient to make the determination.
There is no rule/law that contractors must be able to sub-contract.
There is also no rule/law that employees can't sub-contract.
AI is going to take over, so why not have high fucking standards?
Because delay means deaths. Don't make the perfect the enemy of the good.
There's no need to rush this.
Go tell that to the 3500 families that lost a son, daughter, spouse, or parent, just TODAY.
SDCs should be on the road as soon as they are "good enough". Then they can get better with OTA software upgrades. And they will get better. How many HDC fatalities are investigated by the NTSB? Nearly zero, because we already know that a human caused almost all of them, and there is no way to "fix" humans.
There is far less genetic variation among East Asians than there is among Caucasians. And how exactly do you come to that absurd idea?
I can't find a clear citation that East Asians have less diversity than Caucasians, but they certainly have less diversity than Africans.
Humanity's origin appears to be in the Rift Valley region of East Africa. There have been many migrations out of that region, each going through a genetic chokepoint that reduced diversity. The branches, from most genetic divergence from the core region (presumably because of an earlier departure) to the least:
1. San people of the Kalahari. 2. Pygmies of the Congo rainforest 3. Melanesians, Negritos, native Australians, Ainu 4. East Asians, Polynesians, and Native Americans 5. Caucasians 6. West Africans (Bantus)
In East Asian, there is more genetic diversity in Southeast Asia than further north in China, Korea, Japan, and Mongolia. Presumably, this is because they migrated from South to North.
I thought the headline meant they booted up the actual car from the crash to go through the computer.
That was my first parsing too. By booting it "into the fatal crash", I thought they replayed the sensor data and recreated the same failure that caused the fatality.
Alas, that would have been much a much more interesting story.
That's how the NTSB operates - it releases preliminary information as it sees fits
... and that is ok, because unlike Tesla, NTSB has no incentive to twist the facts to fit their corporate PR agenda.
I am a Tesla owner, and normally a Tesla fanboi, but they have recently been acting like jerks. One of their customers was killed. They should be focused on fixing the issues rather than shifting blame.
no personal identifying information that could be used to create a false credit profile like SSN, DOB or physical address.
Even that is not a "data breach problem" but a "stupid financial industry policy problem". I should not be able to spend your money just because I know semi-public information such as your SSN and DOB.
Asians think caucasians all look alike. Your brain adjusts to the variation in the types of faces you see on a daily basis. If all your family, friends, co-workers, and acquaintances are white, you will have difficulty discriminating between Asian faces. And vice versa.
I live in San Jose, California, which is about 35% Asian, so when I go to Asia I have no problem recognizing individual faces.
What good is it even if they say you need to keep your hands on the steering wheel?
Autopilot is in development, and is improving with every update. Progress requires testing. If you don't want to be a guinea pig, then don't engage Autopilot, or even better, don't buy a Tesla.
I own a Tesla, and while Autopilot isn't perfect, it is pretty good, and getting better. Nothing in life is risk free.
Something is seriously wrong with our civilization when robots taking over dull, repetitive tasks leads to an overall worse quality of life.
Something is seriously wrong with our civilization when people read some journalist spouting an opinion, and accept it as objective truth rather than some stupid economic fallacy.
There is no reason to believe that automation is leading to a "worse quality of life".
Nope. "Rare earth" metals were never the rational for asteroid mining, because rare earth metals are not actually rare. They are fairly common, but generally don't exist in concentrated ores that can be economically mined. Neither asteroids nor deep sea deposits change that, because neither is going to be more economical to mine than known deposits in China, Africa, and California.
The Mountain Pass Mine in California is currently mothballed, not because of lack or ore, but because prices are too low to stay in business.
Asteroid mining is for metals like gold, platinum, and other siderophile elements, which are rare in the earth's crust, but thousands of times more common in the earth's core and in asteroids. The earth's crust is mostly oxides, so metals that do not oxidize readily tend to sink to the core.
We don't have AI yet or anything close to it, we have pattern recognition and heuristics
For controlling weapons, that is good enough.
It will be another 50-100 years before hardware reaches the point we can build a tard-Human-level AI
It is not at all clear that this is true. A human brain has more neurons than a CPU has transistors, but the brain runs at 100Hz while the CPU runs at 4000000000Hz. Can speed make up for breadth? We don't know.
Also, a lot of neurons are used for biological housekeeping, not intelligence.
There is good evidence that computers can be far more efficient than a brain at some tasks. A huge number of neurons are dedicated to vision processing. Yet computers can often exceed human abilities at CV, and can do so far faster, processing hundreds or thousands of images per second.
Poor analogy. Everybody loses in thermonuclear war. Competent players always draw at tic-tac-toe. It is not at all clear that the same is true for autonomous smart-weapons. It is more likely that there is a first-mover advantage.
Any city/state that raises its minimum wage is going to be on the front line of automation.
... and those that don't raise the MW will only be six months behind. Much of the cost of automation is in R&D. Once the kiosks are developed and being manufactured, they will be deployed everywhere.
Any fast food job in California that can be automated will be automated.
I live in California. The McDonalds nearest me already has ordering kiosks. Tap what you want, swipe your card, and wait for your number to be called when your order is ready. No human interaction at all. My estimate is that about half the customers use them.
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... an economy where people are desperate they need an Uber job to stay afloat.
In 2015, Uber drivers averaged $19 per hour. That is more than twice the minimum wage.
The median household income in America is $53k, but many household have more than one earner. The median individual earnings are about $32k, which for a 40 hour work week, is equivalent to about $16 per hour.
So driving for Uber is a pretty good job. Better pay than most, and you have no boss looking over your shoulder, no annoying coworkers, no office politics, and you can set your own hours.
a high chance of being shot to death?
Schools are very safe. A child in America is far more likely to be shot at home. If you have been led to believe otherwise, you should reexamine your news sources.
Many drivers see it as a full-time, long-term job.
About 20% of Uber drivers work full time (at least 35 hours per week).
More than half work 15 hours or less.
Citation: Survey of Uber drivers from 2015.
IANAL
Obviously.
if a person is not allowed to subcontract the work, they are considered an employee...
This is nonsense. The IRS publishes a long list of criteria for determining whether a worker can be classified as a contractor. Subcontracting is one of those criteria, but no single factor is either necessary nor sufficient to make the determination.
There is no rule/law that contractors must be able to sub-contract.
There is also no rule/law that employees can't sub-contract.
if they are independent contractors, they then have the right to set their own prices for work.
Nonsense. The IRS publishes a long list of criteria, none of which is alone sufficient or necessary for "contractor" designation.
Many contractors DO NOT have the right to set their own prices.
Some employees DO have the right to set prices. This includes many employees paid partly or fully in commissions.
If you're going to break into a house, why not just take the damn machine?
1. You want to continue to monitor the target and collect information continuously.
2. You don't want the target to know he has been compromised.
So an IQ test before allowing a sale? .
Do you have a citation that IQ correlated with safe driving?
I have a high IQ, and I tend to daydream a lot. My hands may be on the wheel, and my eyes on the road, but my mind is busy elsewhere.
When SDCs are finally available, I will be first in line.
They need to AVERAGE BETTER than the BEST HUMAN.
Says who?
AI is going to take over, so why not have high fucking standards?
Because delay means deaths. Don't make the perfect the enemy of the good.
There's no need to rush this.
Go tell that to the 3500 families that lost a son, daughter, spouse, or parent, just TODAY.
SDCs should be on the road as soon as they are "good enough". Then they can get better with OTA software upgrades. And they will get better. How many HDC fatalities are investigated by the NTSB? Nearly zero, because we already know that a human caused almost all of them, and there is no way to "fix" humans.
There is far less genetic variation among East Asians than there is among Caucasians.
And how exactly do you come to that absurd idea?
I can't find a clear citation that East Asians have less diversity than Caucasians, but they certainly have less diversity than Africans.
Humanity's origin appears to be in the Rift Valley region of East Africa. There have been many migrations out of that region, each going through a genetic chokepoint that reduced diversity. The branches, from most genetic divergence from the core region (presumably because of an earlier departure) to the least:
1. San people of the Kalahari.
2. Pygmies of the Congo rainforest
3. Melanesians, Negritos, native Australians, Ainu
4. East Asians, Polynesians, and Native Americans
5. Caucasians
6. West Africans (Bantus)
In East Asian, there is more genetic diversity in Southeast Asia than further north in China, Korea, Japan, and Mongolia. Presumably, this is because they migrated from South to North.
I thought the headline meant they booted up the actual car from the crash to go through the computer.
That was my first parsing too. By booting it "into the fatal crash", I thought they replayed the sensor data and recreated the same failure that caused the fatality.
Alas, that would have been much a much more interesting story.
... safety under all possible circumstances
That is a totally unrealistic standard. SDCs just need to be safer than HDCs.
... more than hundreds will die, mark my fucking words. -hmm
Worldwide, 3500 people are killed everyday by HDCs.
That's how the NTSB operates - it releases preliminary information as it sees fits
... and that is ok, because unlike Tesla, NTSB has no incentive to twist the facts to fit their corporate PR agenda.
I am a Tesla owner, and normally a Tesla fanboi, but they have recently been acting like jerks. One of their customers was killed. They should be focused on fixing the issues rather than shifting blame.
no personal identifying information that could be used to create a false credit profile like SSN, DOB or physical address.
Even that is not a "data breach problem" but a "stupid financial industry policy problem". I should not be able to spend your money just because I know semi-public information such as your SSN and DOB.
If quantum physics is random ...
That is an assumption, not an axiom. As our understanding of physics improves, we may find deeper patterns.
... then macroscopic noise is random
So what makes this new RNG different from other RNGs based on quantum phenomena, such as Brownian motion, or zener diode avalanches?
I thought all Asians looked alike
Asians think caucasians all look alike. Your brain adjusts to the variation in the types of faces you see on a daily basis. If all your family, friends, co-workers, and acquaintances are white, you will have difficulty discriminating between Asian faces. And vice versa.
I live in San Jose, California, which is about 35% Asian, so when I go to Asia I have no problem recognizing individual faces.
nearly everyone has said that they plan to get one.
How many have actually done so?
What good is it even if they say you need to keep your hands on the steering wheel?
Autopilot is in development, and is improving with every update. Progress requires testing. If you don't want to be a guinea pig, then don't engage Autopilot, or even better, don't buy a Tesla.
I own a Tesla, and while Autopilot isn't perfect, it is pretty good, and getting better. Nothing in life is risk free.
Something is seriously wrong with our civilization when robots taking over dull, repetitive tasks leads to an overall worse quality of life.
Something is seriously wrong with our civilization when people read some journalist spouting an opinion, and accept it as objective truth rather than some stupid economic fallacy.
There is no reason to believe that automation is leading to a "worse quality of life".
We do not have 'AI', we have 'pseudo-intelligence'
According to my dictionary, one of the synonyms for "pseudo" is "artificial".
There goes asteroid mining.
Nope. "Rare earth" metals were never the rational for asteroid mining, because rare earth metals are not actually rare. They are fairly common, but generally don't exist in concentrated ores that can be economically mined. Neither asteroids nor deep sea deposits change that, because neither is going to be more economical to mine than known deposits in China, Africa, and California.
The Mountain Pass Mine in California is currently mothballed, not because of lack or ore, but because prices are too low to stay in business.
Asteroid mining is for metals like gold, platinum, and other siderophile elements, which are rare in the earth's crust, but thousands of times more common in the earth's core and in asteroids. The earth's crust is mostly oxides, so metals that do not oxidize readily tend to sink to the core.
We don't have AI yet or anything close to it, we have pattern recognition and heuristics
For controlling weapons, that is good enough.
It will be another 50-100 years before hardware reaches the point we can build a tard-Human-level AI
It is not at all clear that this is true. A human brain has more neurons than a CPU has transistors, but the brain runs at 100Hz while the CPU runs at 4000000000Hz. Can speed make up for breadth? We don't know.
Also, a lot of neurons are used for biological housekeeping, not intelligence.
There is good evidence that computers can be far more efficient than a brain at some tasks. A huge number of neurons are dedicated to vision processing. Yet computers can often exceed human abilities at CV, and can do so far faster, processing hundreds or thousands of images per second.
It is very important a human is put behind every possible weapon
If we do this, and our adversaries do not (and they will not), then we lose.
The ethical debate about "humans in the loop" is not happening in China and Russia.
Spending differently doesn't always mean spending more.
$100B spent on AI is likely to be far more useful than $1T spent on the F-35.
Thermonuclear War
Tic Tac Toe
Poor analogy. Everybody loses in thermonuclear war. Competent players always draw at tic-tac-toe. It is not at all clear that the same is true for autonomous smart-weapons. It is more likely that there is a first-mover advantage.
Any city/state that raises its minimum wage is going to be on the front line of automation.
... and those that don't raise the MW will only be six months behind. Much of the cost of automation is in R&D. Once the kiosks are developed and being manufactured, they will be deployed everywhere.
Any fast food job in California that can be automated will be automated.
I live in California. The McDonalds nearest me already has ordering kiosks. Tap what you want, swipe your card, and wait for your number to be called when your order is ready. No human interaction at all. My estimate is that about half the customers use them.