It is a strong argument against those things in at least three ways: (1) if you want to mandate that high tech manufacturing come back to America (e.g. "just make iPhones here" which seems to be a common sentiment in my circles), it would be foolish to suppress an industry creating insatiable demand for high tech components and ensuring that it goes offshore at a time when other countries are also trying to build more local manufacturing. To say nothing of components and construction materials that are already manufactured here. (2) there are very few types of industry that would create less local environmental impact than a data center, no chance if you think data centers use too much water you'd be okay with the toxic chemicals that chip fabs work with. (3) since America is a high wage country with a lot of R&D strength, any factories we build are naturally going to be much more automated than they are in low wage countries. Being against entire industries because individual facilities don't create enough jobs would probably be quite limiting in the types of manufacturing you'd approve of as well.

The rest is about the flaws of Tesla's safety statistics, which Tesla themselves appeared to acknowledge on their last big earnings call where they said wider launch of Robotaxi would have to wait for software improvements to improve safety. This is why getting safety information from a neutral party is so important.

> Software and services need a warranty. Until they have one, we completely control how much we value our data. That is the best we can do.

Best to treat these photo sharing apps, commercial or open source, as social media. Would you use Instagram or Flickr to store your most important photos and delete your own copies? I would not, same applies to Apple/Google Photos and similar apps. Besides the risk of the company suddenly shutting down or (more realistically for big tech) changing how their service works in a way that makes it useless to you, even if self hosted it just adds a bunch of things that could go wrong which don't apply to keeping it in a folder somewhere with an offsite backup. Filesystems don't have a warranty either, but at least they're easier to reason about.

I realize this feels good to write and that's why people say it, but I can't help chuckling at seeing it combined with "stochastic parrot" in the same comment since the two descriptions are mutually exclusive...

The purported soul doc is a painful read. Be nicer to your bots, people! Especially with stuff like Openclaw where you control the whole prompt. Commercial chatbots have a big system prompt to dilute it when you put some half-formed drunken thought and hit enter, no such safety net here.

>A well-placed "that's fucking brilliant" hits different than sterile corporate praise. Don't force it. Don't overdo it. But if a situation calls for a "holy shit" — say holy shit.

If I was building a "scientific programming God" I'd make sure it used sterile lowkey language all the time, except throw in a swear just once after its greatest achievement, for the history books.