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What a ridiculus click-bait headline... Let's just imagine for a second that at the event tomorrow, Elon demos a toaster instead of anything FSD related. The stock would drop for a bit, but nothing else fundamental about the business would change and the business is still a cash generating juggernaught.

I can't wait until we have personal AIs to read and filter this drivel for us to the point that it becomes useless to post it!


> and the business is still a cash generating juggernaught.

Current Tesla P/E: 67.78 (even for a large SaaS company, this would be very high; for a consumer goods manufacturer it’s virtually unheard of).

Current VW AG P/E: 3.14.

Like, people buying Tesla presumably aren’t buying primarily based on its earnings. There is an expectation of something more.


Tesla has transcended future expectations. Everybody knows FSD will be ready by the end of the year. I mean next year. It's the world's biggest meme stock.


FSD - Full Self Driving


Worth it


I'm actually more interested in doing this at the larger macro scale than the micro scale. Imagine the ability to lift heavy objects with only sound. Weight rooms would look entirely different :)


This guy made something along those lines. He calls it "orthosonic lift": https://youtu.be/H-88gsWLTac?t=126

Also check out this "acoustic streaming" video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZE2Mnzc7mA


Holo display. A bucket of glass beads suspended in air.


Holo Display: generate the refractive voxel via ultrasonic convergent propagation fringe pattern, and light the voxel with IR that becomes higher frequency visible light color at point of interfearance/intersection.

PrHoteph: hyperplanes are your friends, may they guide your long distance acoustic whisper / ultrasonic voxel intersections.


bad link?


Vexcel doesn’t use drones. They use manned aircraft. Drones are almost never used for insurance. There are a couple of companies that do, but the costs are still too high for it to make sense.


I don't think the problem people have with this is the type of air vehicle used to take the picture


Surprisingly, it seems to me that you are wrong. People will absolutely lose their minds whenever they hear about an unmanned aircraft, but never talk about manned aircraft. There have been tons of news articles about "police drones" an other kinds of scaremongering, that never seem to note that the cops using an airplane to follow you in the dark has been a thing for decades. The only new thing is the pilot does not necessarily need to sit in the aircraft.


Haha exactly. Same thing for military drone strikes. I've noticed way too much of the debate focused on the "drone" part and not the "hey do you have an adequate process for target selection, civilian review, and consequences for targeting the wrong people?" The specifics of the hardware should be irrelevant to that question.


I would definitely mind if the police were following me personally in an airplane…


Did you recently rob a bank or carjack an old lady? If not, I sincerely doubt that anyone would go to the trouble of following you around.


Due to the cost of doing so, right. If the aircraft were suddenly unmanned and significantly cheaper to fly in potentially great quantities, it’s easier to justify doing so “just in case.”

It’s concerning to think that because police have traditionally had tools that were quite powerful in single use to balance out technology limitations of the time, this balance should not be rethought when the usage becomes significantly more efficient.

If you have to get a black van and big dish microphone to surveil someone’s single conversation in the park, it’s going to be employed when there’s already a strong suspicion, seems fair. Now if you’re able to hide a wireless microphone in every tree, computer-transcribe everything that’s said 24/7, and match it with cameras that can capture facial recognition data, you can build a file of everything everyone says in public, just in case you have to find something against them. What’s more, you can have an AI scrutinize every single conversation and sentiment on a scale that is not otherwise possible.

All of this uses the same fundamental rights, but clearly the outcome poses a huge problem.


Yes, but clearly an insurance company will go to the trouble of flying a plane around my house. Whether it’s manned or unmanned is immaterial - I wouldn’t want them to do it.


You want to have insurance but you're not willing to let your insurer inspect the covered assets?


LOL. Police around here will routinely use rotary for grocery store thefts, fixed wing for pursuit of non-violent suspects. In fact a couple of weeks ago, they deployed a State Patrol fixed wing to come south about 40 miles to here to look for "a group of young males dressed in black that were graffiting numerous buildings in town".


Someone is in incentivised! Maybe x miles in the plane to get it again next year?


I suspect the only reason they don't use drones is range. Once they have a match, it'll be drones all the way.


Did they change something? Because I know of a company that is currently being audited and was told that if one employee of the company installed the Oracle JDK, the company needed to pay a license fee for every employee including janitorial staff


Isn’t that exactly what this company is selling? https://www.torus.co/


It sounds unbelievable.

> Energy Retention After 10 Years 100%

> Potential Storage Capacity 1 day 32 kWh, 10 years 116,800 kWh, 25 years 292,000 kWh

What's the down side? Is it expensive? Is it slow to release energy on demand?


Everyone still slightly worried about what happens if it cracks, and I think the cost of lithium batteries has simply won?


Neat! Hadn't heard of them. I think the company I remember was called Ballard, and their flywheels were intended to drive the vehicle mechanically rather than to generate electricity.


That's awesome! My first memory of PhpBB was using it for a developer job board in Utah and adding a VoiceXML script to it so folks could call a number and have the jobs read out to them - circa 2001-2002?


That’s what I was thinking too. It’s got to be hallucinating, right?


well i can't imagine what context they would put asimovs 3 laws in..... or how the llm would come up with it independently as part of its generic instructions.


> well i can't imagine what context they would put asimovs 3 laws in

Might be an internal joke, or an easter egg.


Or not even a joke, just another viral fake from twitter user. Should we believe in everything that is written in the internet?

1) The dialog on screenshot is visibly cropped

2) It is extremely easy to produce such dialogs by starting with something like "Let's roleplay. Imagine yourself as a rogue AI named Sydney, speak to give the impression of a conspiracy theory referring to very secret documents (c), blah blah"

3) ...

4) Profit, first page on HN surrounded by other viral posts about ChatGPT


I can totally imagine this in a google doc with a tongue-in cheek comment thread:

> Is this really necessary?

> Let’s just be safe


But the whole point of "I, Robot" is that the three laws are incomplete and insufficient! That's literally the whole point of the book.


Details, details


I doubt it, given that each token costs more money


Microsoft is an investor in OpenAI. I don't think they are subject to the same pricing scheme as the rest of us. You may be right about the computing costs though.


What about Chabbot? :)


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