No manufacturer does good self-driving yet.

Several manufacturers including Tesla make driver assistants more reliable than humans in at least some cases, possibly most of the time.

It’s easy to say you don’t want to allow companies to profit from unsafe technology that kills people but what is the other choice? If you send the trolley down the other track, you’re choosing different deaths at the hands of unsafe humans. We will soon be at the point, or already are, that your choice kills more people. Is that really such an easy choice?

Tidal power probably needs shallow water while these would be great in deep water

Did they say it was intended to be on the seafloor? I didn’t see that but assumed it would be moored deep enough for water pressure to turbo boost the turbines, but well clear of silt from the sea floor. That would also be a key benefit if you can moor it at the most useful depth but in any depth of water

Like a battery, it’s not scalable as a one off, but it may be as a modular mass produced item.

Or maybe like a wind turbine. You’d have a field of them comprising a power plant. If you lose some individuals, who cares. If you need to do maintenance you can take one offline or entirely replace it without really impacting the power plants output

It’s such a weird emotionally driven thing though. At one point I was putting on a lesbian barbecue…. Weirdly enough (a lesbian couple was our neighbors and I’ll do a cookout for anyone). Most were great people but a couple stood out

• One was a hulking butch type who lifted weights. Nearly my size and clearly stronger: great person to talk to and comfortable in her body and presentation
• Another was her opposite, tiny with delicate features but excessively masculine and really just trying hard to be a man, took my presence as a challenge. I found that a strange experience and could never be comfortable chatting with her. Maybe she wanted to transition I don’t know but it was just excessive and overwhelming any personality she may have had. It’s not just that I found nothing in common or there was any way it could threaten me, but i definitely felt uncomfortable in ways I was not proud of

I’d be more than happy if we steered the argument in that direction. Little bit of privacy would be appreciated by us all and this problem goes away if all the restrooms are private and non-gendered

This brings up an interesting question or I’m not close enough to the problem to have thought of. I’ve seen women use men’s rooms plenty of times and no one cares.

• Is it because I’ve lived in tolerant areas?
• Am I Just too obtuse?
• are they that illogical that women in the wrong restroom are not objected to but trans men are “for being a woman in the wrong restroom”

It does happen and it is uncomfortable, regardless of whom. Situations im thinking about include

• urinals extremely close together with no dividers, or even troughs
• urinals with overly narrow dividers so you have to stand at an angle or stand way back (or maybe I just have broad shoulders)
• extra cringe if that is right next to the kids urinal
• locker room - parts is parts and I understand you need to bring your kid in but your little girl really shouldn’t be here. She’s old enough to use women’s locker room on her own. At least have her use the privacy stall

The most satisfying part is when it doesn’t even affect our line. Women are heading to our stalls where as most men are using urinals so we still get through just as fast

Then double down to challenge them for three trans athletes on women’s sport teams. Anywhere

Doesn’t this just follow long established gender norms (self referential joke intended)?

As a thought exercise assume two genders and consider your reaction toward using the wrong restroom.

• most people would be up in arms over a man using a woman’s bathroom
• it may be novel for a woman to use the men’s room but does anyone really care? Think of a big event where there’s a huge line at the women’s room. Aside from annoyance at potentially having to wait, do you really care if some of the women use the men’s room? Or a high end bar/club? I’ve been in several that have a woman as a restroom attendant and my only concern is why do I need an attendant, why do I need to tip someone I’d prefer wasn’t there, regardless of gender. Again, I’ve never heard anyone complain.

So it actually does make sense for this issue to be an outgrowth of long standing societal norms, but maybe it’s an opportunity to have a deeper discussion about why we do that and whether/when it’s warranted at all. We had shared bathrooms in college and everyone survived (although I was always frustrated that I never used it as an opportunity for “fun”)

1. There’s a practical concern: how do you prevent ai without preventing people.
2. What if you want to allow search, and how is that different than ai, legally or in practice?
3. Does this put Reddit in a new light? Free content to users but charging for the api to do bulk download such as for ai?

Is the ai doing anything that isn’t already allowed for humans. The thing is, generative ai doesn’t copy someone’s art. It’s more akin to learning from someone’s art and creating you own art with that influence. Given that we want to continue allowing hunans access to art for learning, what’s the logical difference to an ai doing the same?

Did this already play out at Reddit? Ai was one of the reasons I left but I believe it’s a different scenario. I freely contributed my content to Reddit for the purposes of building an interactive community, but they changed the terms without my consent. I did NOT contribute my content so they could make money selling it for ai training

The only logical distinction I see with s ai aren’t human: an exception for humans does not apply to non-humans even if the activity is similar

We already have that

Yes, we have the definitions, but I haven’t read about whether they’re effectively required. Is there a test, a certification authority, rules for liability or revocation? Have we established a way to actually require it.

I hope we wouldn’t let manufacturers self-certify, although historical data is important evidence. I hope we don’t aid profitability of manufacturers by either limiting liability or creating a path to justice doomed to fail

The thing is humans are horrible drivers, costing a huge toll in lives and property every year.

We may already be at the point where we need to deal with the ethics of inadequate self-driving causing too many accidents vs human causing more. We can clearly see the shortcomings of all self driving technology so far, but is it ethical to block Immature technology if it does overall save lives?

Maybe it’s the trolley problem. Should we take the branch that leads to deaths or the branch that leads to more deaths

Presumably we have the intelligence to set requirements before something can be called self-driving - that’s usually what the fuss is about, whether the marketing is claiming it’s something it’s not.

If they fail with their approach, I’m fine with that, just like I’m fine if Waymo fails with their approach. Of either succeeds, why should I care how? Obviously there’s a problem if it runs over some old lady at a stop sign and drags them down the street but that’s clearly a failure for them

As long as the glitter is biodegradable ….

Plus, don’t read into that unnecessarily. It could be someone seeing you and thinking “that’s unusual. How cool!”

Yeah but that’s kind of arguable. Bagpipes make a lot of noise so it’s just understandable there may be some objections. I love it when a piper is down the street so you can hear the music echoing through the buildings, but it is loud and may not be for everyone

Juggling is no different than the yoga or tai chi class in the next open area. There’s no impact on anyone sharing the space, except possibly some social conventions. Just do it (be careful not to put a coffee mug out or you may get donations)

Have you found a convenient way of generating those? And does it integrate with any password manager you might be using?

I use Apples “Hide my email” with the password manager so I always have a randomly generated email and randomly generated password and they’re managed together. However there’s not really support for a username distinct from but in addition to email, nor a way to generate those randomly