Thorny_Insight

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I prioritize ethics over optics even if it means facing criticism.

Sharing my honest beliefs, welcoming constructive debates, and embracing the potential for evolving viewpoints. Independent thinker navigating through conversations without allegiance to any particular side.

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Thorny_Insight ,

Probably similar to why you can make the turn indicator make fart noises or have the car "dance" by flashing lights and opening doors and such. The hardware is there so why not. Utterly pointless features but atleast it's something the competition isn't doing I guess.

Tho I must admit that it was quite funny when I once heard a guy lock the doors on his Tesla and instead of the generick "click click" it said "quack" instead.

Thorny_Insight ,

Another thing about TikTok that I don't get is all the useless crap laid over the video. Seems extremely distracting to me.

Thorny_Insight ,

I'm a bit surprised about how quickly I got tired of seeing AI content (mostly porn and non-nudes) Somehow it all just looks the same. You'd think that being AI generated would give you infinite variety but apparently not.

Thorny_Insight ,

Ironically this comes at a time when FSD is getting so good that the car does indeed practically drive itself. It's still level 2 but the amount of driver interventions reguired to reach your destination has dropped to near zero. I don't think we're very far at all from an actual robotaxi and the ability to use your personal vehicle as such.

Thorny_Insight ,

That taxi might just aswell belong to a a private individual who instead of leaving their car at the company parking lot for the whole day sent it doing ridesharing.

Thorny_Insight ,

The link you didn't open has a video comparing Tesla and Mercedes driving the exact same route on autopilot.

Thorny_Insight ,

I don't know what this has to do with what I said. It's long overdue, yes. It was false advertising, yes. It's incredibly good nowdays, yes. Several things can be true at the same time.

Thorny_Insight ,

It can do that now. Probably not with zero driver interventions especially when talking about a trip across the country but Tesla is the only vehicle manufacturer today that offers this capability. There's a dude on YouTube doing ridesharing with Tesla using FSD and with the latest software version it completes 90% of the trips from the pickup to the destination without intervention from the driver.

Thorny_Insight ,

I think FSD is further along than you think it is.

This is the issue with all these debates currently. The people arguing against FSD are totally unaware of how far it has come since just a few months ago. They have already made up their minds based on how much it sucked a year ago and they're under the illusion that it's at best just marginally better today. I love watching the YouTube channel CYBRLFT and seeing people's minds getting blown in real time when they realize that what they've heard on the news and on social media is so far from the reality.

Is it perfect? No. Is it unbelieveably good? Yes.

Thorny_Insight , (edited )

I don't see anyone claiming they have "working full self driving". That's a strawman argument. Their system is really good and years ahead of competition but there's still a shit ton to improve. That's why it's classified as level 2 and not level 3. It's a vehicle capable of driving itself under supervision but it's not a self driving vehicle.

I’ve seen videos with FSD creating numerous dangerous situations on a single trip

In the past few months? Because the current software version is completely different than what it used to be. They've moved entirely from human code to neural nets and it made a giant improvement in its performance.

Thorny_Insight ,

The whole thread is about Musk claiming in 2019 that Tesla has FSD working NOW

From the article:

(1) representations that Tesla vehicles have the hardware needed for full self-driving capability and, (2) representations that a Tesla car would be able to drive itself cross-country in the coming year.

So not only are you clearly emotionally invested here but you're also being dishonest about the claims that have been made. I don't think there's any reason to go further with this.

Thorny_Insight ,

..and I don't see anyone claiming it to be "working" as in it being safe enough to not need supervision.

Thorny_Insight , (edited )

I thought the consensus was that Tesla is far behind, hence why Mercedes is the first brand to actually have some basic level 3 automomus driving actually to customers

Yeah that seems to be the consensus but I have no idea what it's based on. When the Mercedes system is put against FSD it looks like this. The level 3 driving is available only on a handful of highways between LA, SF and LV and even then only in ideal weather and traffic conditions.

If the competition really is ahead then where are all the videos of their vehicles doing what FSD does? There are countless accounts on YouTube demonstrating the capabilities of FSD driving both on highways and in cities but nothing about these other brands.

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Thorny_Insight , (edited )

Are you misleading on purpose?

The level 3 driving is available only on a handful of highways between LA, SF and LV and even then only in ideal weather and traffic conditions.

Stated clearly in the very next sentence.

This comparison shows that Tesla FSD in reality is merely a drive assist.

Always has been. That video compares drive assist to another. Apples to apples comparison. What exactly is the issue here?

Thorny_Insight ,

Yeah I have no idea what you're trying to tell me. You're not going to buy a Tesla because they lied about FSD a decade earlier? Ok. Good for you?

Thorny_Insight ,

That's not how FSD works. It's a neural net trained on millions of hours of video content of good human driving. Nowhere in the code is even specified what a bicycle is.

Thorny_Insight ,

if Musk sabotaged Ukraine access again

Misinformation

Thorny_Insight ,

Jesus christ dude. There's quote from the author himself, Walter Isaacson who is the person from whose book the whole claim originated from.

To clarify on the Starlink issue: the Ukrainians THOUGHT coverage was enabled all the way to Crimea, but it was not. They asked Musk to enable it for their drone sub attack on the Russian fleet. Musk did not enable it, because he thought, probably correctly, that would cause a major war.

You believe him when the narrative suits you but you don't when it doesn't. Talk about cognitive dissonance lol

Enabling Starlink in Crimea would have been against the sanctions to Russia by the US. Literally illegal.

Anyway I'm done with you. Don't bother replying.

Thorny_Insight ,

The prevelance of social media makes many fringe groups seem much more numerous than they really are. I'd be willing to bet that racism is on the decline but now the actual racists have a platform to make their voices heard and there's also the fact that a ton of people get accused of being a racist who infact aren't but the masses are willing to take these accusations at face value especially when the target is a person they already don't like. The term itself has suffered a major inflation in the past decade or so.

Thorny_Insight ,

The main issue I personally have with the idea of an AI friend that you can talk with, no matter how convincing, is that I'll always know that it doesn't actually care. I've noticed this same thing with chat-GPT; it might ask me questions about a subject I'm passionate about and in a normal situation could easily spend hours rambling of. With AI it just seems pointless. I'm not teaching it anything it doesn't already know of and I'm painfully aware that it just pretends to be interested.

I really don't mind that it's not actually another human, I just want it to actually behave like an human and not just pretend. I really don't know how to solve this. I guess we need an AI that actually knows less than our current models.

Thorny_Insight ,

I mean it doesn't really matter wether they actually care or not as long as they're convincing enough that you think it does. However with LLM you know the lights aren't on so no matter how convincing it is it still wouldn't make a difference. Interestingly though if you don't know you're talking with LLM then it's a different case. Maybe to actually have a fulfilling relationship with AI you need to be somehow tricked into thinking it's consciouss even if it's not.

Thorny_Insight ,

Yeah that's true aswell. I guess I was thinking something like if I had an AI friend I probably wouldn't want it to know everything there's to know about mountain biking because I'd much prefer it asking me things about bikes and stuff and it actually mattering how well I can explain it back to it. I wouldn't want it to act curious as if it didn't know but then in the next sentence demonstrating it knows more than I do. I think that especially for men it's important to bond over solving problems together and figuring things out. It's different to be an expert on one field but if you know literally everything about everything then it's just more like an assistant/search engine.

Thorny_Insight ,

Even in that case they would still be consciouss individuals. I'm not sure if "caring" is even the the correct term here. For example I talk to my pet gerbils despite the fact that I know they don't care. They don't even understand a single thing I'm saying. It doesn't matter. They're still individuals with personalities that have some sort of an subjective experience of the world. They look back at me and know I'm there and I know they can hear my voice too.

This is not the case with LLM. There's no one there. Not only does it not care it doesn't even know you exist. Talking to it is not talking to an individual. It's like asking a group of scientists how they're doing today. Any reply you're going to get back is completely meaningless so why bother even asking?

I think it's cosciousness that's the relevant factor here. You need to atleast get the sense of talking to something that can experience things even if it was infact not consciouss. Otherwise it's just a more advanced version of a stereo that is programmed to say "hello" when you turn it on.

Thorny_Insight ,

I don't think most countries reveal the true scale of their stockpiles.

E-Bikes Should Not Require Pedaling, Proposes U.K. Government, Diverging From E.U. ( www.forbes.com )

E-bikes could get faster, more powerful and not require pedaling, in a move announced today by UKGOV. Cycling organizations are opposed to the plans.

Thorny_Insight ,

People who do this kind of stuff are the reason the rest of us can't have nice things. Same as with Surrons fucking up bike trails and then getting all ebikes banned from there.

Thorny_Insight ,

Pedal assist is always laggy

On Aliexpress bikes, sure.

Thorny_Insight ,

Hub motor I assume. My mid-drive 250W e-fatbike climbs near-vertical hills effortlessly.

Thorny_Insight ,

As long as the speed limit remains the same as for pedal-assist bikes then I don't really see any difference wether the rider is pedaling or not.

Thorny_Insight ,

They should be free to do that up to a point. A moped needs a licence to drive and it needs to be registered and insured and you need to wear a motorbike helmet while riding one and you're not allowed to ride it on the sidewalks or on forest trails. If your ebike is effectively a moped then the same rules should apply.

Where I live a pedal-assist ebike with 250 watt motor that's limited to 25kph is considered a bicycle and you're allowed to ride it where ever you're allowed to ride a bicycle aswell. However if it goes faster than that or is a more powerful then I think it's only reasonable that there's a different set of regulations for a bike like that. I'm not allowed to drive a car on the sidewalk either even if I go slow so I don't see how electric motorbike is that much different.

Thorny_Insight ,

I have a feeling that the only short-term solution is heavy content curation by the users themselves. Nobody is incentivized to do it for us. It takes time and effort but the only thing that has made any kind of difference is blocking everything you don't want to see. And I mean ruthlessly doing so. Someone replied with a clown emoji to this thread and they're now blocked. That's how petty I'm about it nowdays. The vast majority of users on social media just add to the noise and it's this group of people I'm trying to get rid of.

The way I think about it is by imagining a room with 100 random people. Do I want to talk with all of them? No. I'd rather talk with the couple most interesting ones among them and ignore the rest. I don't have the time and energy to pay attention to the constant feed of meaningless nonsense.

Block subs you're not interested in. Block users that dont bring any value. Add content filters for topics you're sick of reading about etc. You're not going to miss out on anything. You're not going to run out of content. You'll hardly notice any difference but after some time the signal does start to get stronger and the noise does quiet down a bit.

Thorny_Insight ,

If they actually used a tactical nuke or attacked a Nato member and we retaliated by shooting hundreds of cruise- and ballistic missiles into Russia, I wonder how many they would actually be able to intercept. I'm starting to get the feeling that not many.

Thorny_Insight ,

Yeah I charge 50€/h (incl. VAT) as an home improvement contractor and it's a fair price. For 35€/h I'd be basically doing charity.

Thorny_Insight ,

They barely have the manpower to push forward even in Ukraine. Then again if they ever want to do it now is the time because in a few decades they're not going to have enough fighting age men. I just really doubt this. If the current war has taught us anything it's that they would get absolutely obliterated by Nato and there are no winners in a nuclear exchange. Also them using nukes in Ukraine/Europe would mean nuking themselves too because that's the direction wind is going to push the fallout. Though that assumes they would care about their civilian population which they clearly don't.

Thorny_Insight ,

Hating on everything AI is trendy nowdays. Most of these people can't give you any coherent explanation for why. They just adopt the attitude of people around them who also don't know why.

I believe the general reasoning is something along the lines of not wanting bad corporations to profit from their content for free. So it's just a matter of principle for the most part. Perhaps we need to wait for someone to train LLM on the freely available to everyone data on Lemmy and then we can interview it to see what's up.

Thorny_Insight OP , (edited )
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Thorny_Insight OP ,

Swordfish? Interesting.. What's that like?

Thorny_Insight ,

"Lie"

It's a theory. A plausible but unlikely one. Just like it was unlikely that the first atomic bomb would set the atmosphere on fire - but possible. I think that events with consequences of this magnitude deserves some consideration. I doubt humans are anywhere even near the far end of the intelligence spectrum and only a human is stupid enough to think that something that is would not posses any potential danger to us.

Thorny_Insight ,

I was just thinking yesterday what car I would get if I had infinite money and while I'm sure such one probably exists I couldn't came up with one that I'd like better than my -07 Nissan Navara. I mean yeah I would ofcourse do a total overhaul on it and add a bunch of offroad accessories and such but the truck itself basically has everything I need and switching to a newer one would just add stuff I dont want.

I like cars and trucks but I'm extremely uninterested in most of the new ones. Something similar happened with them as with smartphones when they turned from tools into fashion accessories you use to show off to your friends. Can't we just have ones that are decent looking and come with the basic necesary features and nothing more? I want it simple, reliable and easy to fix. I don't want a computer on wheels.

Thorny_Insight ,

Buying a new car never really made sense to me even when you could afford it. 2 - 3 year old model is effectively brand new but a lot cheaper. Why pay more if you can pay less?

Thorny_Insight , (edited )

Jokes on them. I endlessly scroll on my computer while my smartphone mostly just acts as a phone/music player/navigation device.

Thorny_Insight ,

If Hamas wasn't using their own population as human shields and shooting rockets from next to the refugee camps then perhaps there would be no need for it. I also find it quite ironic how they're yet again criticized for bombing civilians while there's a perfect example right there of to which lenghts they're going to warn them beforehand. I doubt Hamas did that before shooting rockets at the aid delivery corridor a few days back. Again, 350 meters from a civilian campsite.

Thorny_Insight ,

I brought up the roof knocking because it's what Israel does aswell as dropping leaflets and sending text messages and making phone calls before the strikes. This goes against all the accusations about genocide and intentionally targeting civilians. It would be quite cynical to think that this all is just a cover up so that they can continue with their plan of murdering every single Palestinian. I'm just not buying that. The high number of civilians in that area are a huge inconvenience for Israel and killing them is extremely bad PR. They know this and Hamas knows it aswell.

For the high number of civilians killed I think the most simple explanation is also the most likely to be true; it's urban warwafe on a country with extremely tiny land area and a population of millions. You could blindly drop a bomb quite literally anywhere there and you're likely to hit someone. This is what war looks like.

what's a good way to stick a laser leveler to the wall?

I have a laser level that I'd like to use for lining up pictures on my wall. I'm doing this by myself otherwise I just have someone else hold it. It has a couple holes in it that look like maybe you could use screws or nails and I'd rather not have to put holes in the wall to do this. Any suggestions?

Thorny_Insight ,

A tripod is what I use. Laser levels have the same threads in them than cameras do. There's also stands for them which you pin between the floor and ceiling and can then place the laser at any height aswell as wall-mounts with magnets and stuff but all this seems a bit excessive for hanging a picture. Perhaps use a bubble level and a measuring tape instead?

Thorny_Insight ,

I'd love to drive my truck in places I'm not allowed to. I would do urban offroading, drive on private land and inside malls and stuff.

Maybe I'd also find an abandoned building or two and set them on fire but first I would smash all the windows. Actually now that I think about it, I'd make molotov cocktails and set all kinds of things on fire.

I would also like to try if I could fall a radio mast by cutting the guide wires with an battery powered angle grinder. This is one of the things I've always wondered when looking at these masts and thought there's no way it could be that easy.

Maybe I'd finish my day by raiding a hardware store and stealing all the tools I don't already have and probably one or two other things aswell.

Thorny_Insight ,

Yeah if the law (or fear of god) is the only thing that prevents one from doing horrible things, then they're probably not the most balanced person to begin with.

Thorny_Insight ,

Yeah but would that be enought to make the entire tower fall if you cut all of them on the one side. Seems like it would but also seems like something they would take into account when designing these as that would be quite easy to sabotage and how's anyone even going to catch you since they're usually located in the middle of forest.

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