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New comment by darkwizard42 in "Waymo Safety Impact"

darkwizard42 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:18:00 +0000

Waymo does slow down as it approaches stop signs (usually where crosswalks are) and it will slow down if there is a pedestrian entering the roadway (crosswalk or not) since it doesn't want to crash into them.

The explicit signal of a driver noticing you (eye contact) is replaced by the signal above the vehicle. Are you not equally concerned that pedestrians have to get an explicit signal from drivers who are legally required to yield or stop??

New comment by darkwizard42 in "Tesla: Failure of the FSD's degradation detection system [pdf]"

darkwizard42 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:14:15 +0000

Not too much to specifically take away yet, but appears that the degradation detection system did not function well. That is pretty egregious for FSD given a human won't be able to tell if FSD is confident or needs the human to intervene. I'd expect this to be a VERY important test case with high reliability of passing, but who knows.

Overall, yikes.

New comment by darkwizard42 in "The Future of AI"

darkwizard42 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 14:12:26 +0000

The current fruit is automating away a ton of human labor with no foreseeable way to continue to engage that labor. It is poison for the majority of humanity which will bear fruit for the limited few who can use it / own it.

I think that much is fairly clear from AI.

New comment by darkwizard42 in "Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation"

darkwizard42 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:48:10 +0000

Is this true now?

The models are better, the integrations are now in your email, search, youtube, docs, spreadsheets, slides, Gemini is now higher than ChatGPT in the App Stores

I think you are right with the timeline being Google was infinitely ahead in the beginning, did nothing, then fell behind, but right now, they feel ahead -- established even, and distributing AI into all their products

New comment by darkwizard42 in "Market design can feed the poor"

darkwizard42 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 14:03:14 +0000

Your efficiency is having the $$ spent on goods worth the $$ given. However, the goal of food banks is to spend money on FOOD and make sure the FOOD is given out to those in need (with little wasteage). Efficiency is being measured completely differently than what you are hoping it is measured as.

New comment by darkwizard42 in "Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI"

darkwizard42 — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:09:55 +0000

This does not happen, if you forgo one month of rent you have to have kept prices up significantly to make up for the loss. The only reason this could happen is if your loan terms are pegged to rent roll (usually only on commercial properties).

an example: $5000/mo apartment generates $60,000 a year; forgoing one month of rent means you have to now generate $60,000 of revenue in 11 months, which in a bad market will likely not rent for $5450 if it didn't rent for $5000. Your mortgage still continues to pile up along with insurance and taxes, so you can't escape the hole.

New comment by darkwizard42 in "OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030"

darkwizard42 — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 20:30:01 +0000

I'm not looking for OpenAI numbers, I'm looking for the HSBC report which would contain more numbers regarding how they did their estimates.

New comment by darkwizard42 in "OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030"

darkwizard42 — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 15:35:44 +0000

Is there any link directly to the report? I am unable to find any in this article or a number of others which seem to just copy the same information here.

I think beyond the number of crazy assumptions (no Google taking market share in the consumer market?? only 2% of digital advertising expected to be captured by OpenAI?) it is hard to nail down which levers could move which might make this funding hole disappear.

New comment by darkwizard42 in "Roblox is a problem but it's a symptom of something worse"

darkwizard42 — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:43:43 +0000

Because the internet is far more optimized at capturing your attention and encouraging terrible behavior (purchases, viruses, scams, etc.)

When you were younger the scariest thing was joining an AOL chat room on a 56k modem. Now you can mind rot yourself on YouTube shorts with the next video loading in milliseconds while being fed content full of sports gambling ads.

To act like the internet doesn’t have significantly sharper edges and dangerous loops which affect children is ignoring the reality around you. The downvotes are not because in principle folks disagree, it’s that the situation is different.

New comment by darkwizard42 in "Cities panic over having to release mass surveillance recordings"

darkwizard42 — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:27:08 +0000

Using invasive surveillance tech to govern is not needed then. If you can't handle the full service (on both ends) of the technology, then you can't deploy it and have to use regular old police work or legacy techniques to enforce it.

Using this tech is not mandatory to have governance.

New comment by darkwizard42 in "Amazon Demands Perplexity Stop AI Agent from Making Purchases"

darkwizard42 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:52:11 +0000

Yes they absolutely can, none of the things you mentioned are protected classes and they are a private company.

I'm not sure why you would feel entitled to make a purchase on their site outside of their (whatever reasonable or unreasonable) rules may be.

New comment by darkwizard42 in "Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race"

darkwizard42 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 04:32:09 +0000

The current Republican playbook seems to be heavily gerrymander a couple of states to dilute the city population impact. See: Texas

New comment by darkwizard42 in "Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas"

darkwizard42 — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:38:48 +0000

Okay but OP wasn't suggesting it solves for ALL people who can't drive. Reducing human driving is a massive safety win (if they can continue to be safer than human drivers)

New comment by darkwizard42 in "Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas"

darkwizard42 — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:37:29 +0000

It does one better, it holds the passenger who created the mess accountable for the cost and then drops them off the service. You get some bad actors, but you can quickly weed them out.

Doesn't change the service outage piece, but it will get better.

That being said, your key point - people can do what they want in this thing and no one can really stop them, does stand.

New comment by darkwizard42 in "Anthropic judge rejects $1.5B AI copyright settlement"

darkwizard42 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:14:36 +0000

He actually does understand most of what he is ruling on which is a welcome surprise. Not just legal jargon but also the technical spirit of what is at stake.

New comment by darkwizard42 in "Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan"

darkwizard42 — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 19:44:59 +0000

Is it reductive? It also has good incentive for someone jilted or misinterpreting something to suddenly tarnish someone's reputation with little recourse for the other party. It is a one-sided review app for people in a way that people affected may never even know!

New comment by darkwizard42 in "GLP-1s are breaking life insurance"

darkwizard42 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 18:13:07 +0000

Actually from what I have heard, GLP-1 are maybe the first category of drugs which have impact within the median tenure of people on a medical plan (~2 years). It is so significant that you can see ROI within that window which justifies in subsidizing/encouraging patients to use it.

Doesn't disagree with your original claim that there is low incentive for any private insurance to care regarding longevity, but figured I could add some color

New comment by darkwizard42 in "Volvo delivers 5,000th electric semi"

darkwizard42 — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 08:28:46 +0000

Given large fleet operators like JB Hunt operate about 30K vehicles, this is a pretty significant number.

New comment by darkwizard42 in "Everyone Mark Zuckerberg has hired so far for Meta's 'superintelligence' team"

darkwizard42 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 23:32:57 +0000

This list is specifically about the poaching from OpenAI / DM I believe

New comment by darkwizard42 in "The $25k car is going extinct?"

darkwizard42 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 10:35:59 +0000

Given that the car drops nearly 50% value as it leaves the lot, I'm not sure how this every pencils out before maybe 10 years 100k+ miles...Maybe these days given how hot the used car market is (driven by the expensive nature of newer vehicles), but again this is a chicken/egg problem.

Your loan is exceedingly abnormal or from a past time as the average loan % in the US is much higher on that time scale.