Thanks this was a fun read. Kinda want a set now

Problem is billionaires don’t make “income” and it’s quite difficult to even know what they own, let alone how to tax something like unrealized gains on stock holdings that they are using as leverage to get loans

He implicitly defines consciousness as an ability to step back from the particular ruleset or training to see “the big picture” and deal with new circumstances. In particular how humans are different from godel’s incompleteness theorem, which constrains the function of all algorithmic systems

The thing is that you have to break the law to be an effective and even safe driver. Going way under the limit or refusing to go into the opposite lane for a moment means that you cause traffic congestion and piss people off. Waymos definitely break laws at times, I’ve seen it personally. And other times waymos get too “safe” and end up locked in place for 30 min at a time. The real world is a chaotic place and there’s always been a discrepancy between what the laws are and how people actually drive. Lidar helps see things humans cant, but the main problem is the intelligence required, which may improve over time

I just read up on what mauikit is, and it just seems like a pretty bad idea compared to Flutter. Flutter is shitty too, but it’s shitty for the right reasons – operating systems have pretty different UI systems and supporting many of them is hard. But it runs everywhere instead of just Linux and Android

Waymo is really premium and more like getting an Uber Black, probably better. You get to talk shit with your friends as loud as you want, play your own music, and there’s no pressure about anything. You know exactly how long it’ll wait. What it feels like is those movies where the rich guy has a private driver with a privacy screen like a limo. The overall standard of the vehicles is very high, clean, and safe feeling

That’s so cool, maybe the first time in the history of humanity that we see open source tax software, that’s guaranteed to be accurate to the law. For one year at least

It runs Scala / Java, and has docker configs, decent documentation. And an ominous message explaining that some parts were too secret to open source so they had to rewrite chunks of it. Overall, it seems like it was a big project just to get this published, and I am impressed they managed it, given the software team was comprised of 3 different agencies and several contractor firms

Power of what sort?

Oh Jesus while I wasn’t looking Kate became full on VSCode with the same layout and LSP. At least it’s not a webview

God I love this shit. I think I’ll wash my car today. I used to take her through the auto wash, but once there’s enough grime, it scratches the metal a little. So you either have to have the full on auto wash subscription or enjoy the sunshine once in a while. Ain’t that the real life

Yes, welcome

VSCode with the open source Cline extension. Easily the best open option, works everywhere. Excellent coding and planning agent, I use it for everything

Whoa! You can get energy from gravity and spin?? Who would have guessed

ostensibly

Totally unproven dream of the fediverse*

Imo it’ll go like this. 50%+ of the users captured on a single instance. Basically lemmy.world already. It continues to scale until there’s millions of active users. Costs get too high and the offer of investment money is too good. The instance sells out. Non-federated killer features creep in ala embrace / extend / extinguish. Nobody else in the community can afford to run it at that scale, too much admin and servers. Data export is turned off. Users don’t know how to get their accounts working on a clone or that it exists. Most of them stay on the big instance due to network effect. We end up with a new BlueSky, Threads, or Reddit. The investors win again. A new revolution begins over again …

Imo we just enjoy it while it’s here & stay small

Well for once I have to stand up for apple. What makes them different in the AI space is that the inference actually happens on device and is very privacy focused. Probably why it sucks

That’s just any store

You may find it funny to learn that Signal’s early development was funded by an arm of the govt that focuses on distributing ideology worldwide – US Agency For Global Media (Radio Free Asia and Open Technology Fund)

You may also find it interesting that Trump eliminated this entire agency about two months ago

Why did the USA run all these programs and fund privacy software? Ostensibly to help people in oppressive regimes communicate. To broadcast alternative media

Idk he makes some pretty wild claims along the way

• AI is only going to become more expensive for corps with time. This has ~never been true in computing, where specialized hardware and optimizations trend costs down
• That marketing managers are dumbass easy marks who are wasting their company money. Every half way decent marketing department measures outcomes and knows exactly how much money is generated by their activities

Well…

If you follow the link to fedidb, refer to the “mau” monthly active users. Do some brief math and realize that lemmy.world accounts for about 50% of all active users

Email market share is harder, but many estimate that Gmail accounts for over 40%. Many many orgs use Google apps to make custom branded gmails with their own domains too

This is the typical “business power law” that states that the top player should control about 50%, the second player about 25%, etc. This is just kinda how the world works