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What part is not true? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz165f1g8-E I'm sure that there are lots of problems with this approach, but it is not as obvious as your comment makes it out to be.
The part which is not true is: "removing the need for postfabrication qualification"
Couple of points that are missed in the article:
1. 3D printing is a way of bringing down assembly costs - the geometry they print is quite intricate, and it allows much better performance. The disadvantage is that it wouldn't survive multiple launches, but these are meant to be single-use rockets anyway so it doesn't matter. This is a way to build a semi-cryo engine relatively cheap.
2. They are doing it _really_ conservative; three attempted launches of which two were cancelled in the last two minutes (the fourth succeeded). But they always err on the side of caution. It's impressive enough that they're able to cancel so close to launch without losing the vehicle.
3. Here's the launch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGWruZR4rSg
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Since your core point is that Tesla requires drivers to be fully engaged 100% or the time, it is an odd way to challenge someone blaming Tesla by responding to me pointing out that Tesla's advertising is fundamentally dishonest. Tesla are trying to have it both ways. They ADVERTISE and promote that it is " FULL Self-Driving" and "FSD", while simultaneously doing everything post-sale to ensure the driver is responsibl…
Either the advertising misleads the driver or it does not. Whether the advertising might mislead some buyers, investors and unconnected members of the general public, is orthogonal to whether drivers are being misled, and thus whether accidents caused by their unattentiveness should be blamed on Tesla. There is no credible case to be made that any Tesla driver is unaware of Tesla's stance, that the driver assist feat…
I mean, you do realize that there is a class action against Tesla for misleading customers with the names of their products, right? This is actively being fought in the courts. That alone should prove that people feel misled by the marketing.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-must-face-vehicle-owner...
> There is no credible case to be made that any Tesla driver is unaware of Tesla's stance, that the driver assist features cannot provide autonomous driving and that the driver must always remain engaged.
You’re free to believe what you want, but this is far from the closed case you are portraying it to be. In short, that’s just like your opinion man.
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>>conspiracy theories ... agenda-driven and a result of emotions No, not even close, dead wrong spurious insults. For many years, I held Musk in very high regard, and you can find I've even posted extensive defenses of him here on HN. My changed views are a direct result of observed behavior. No, the fact that the driver assist disengages is NOT what I am pointing to as the attempt to shift responsibility. Tesla is s…
Your views on Musk changed precisely when everyone else's did, when he started challenging the establishment on critical points, like their support for rampant censorship of Twitter and other social media sites (e.g. removing the Hunter Biden story before the election and permanently banning users if they used certain gender pronoun conventions). No one who drives a Tesla thinks that the driver assist features are in…
NO they did not. If I was like you, I'd over-generalize and say that "you are just like every other right-wing nutter who only believes a limited view of the world and must slam any other view, regardless of how disconneced from the facts..."
But I won't. I'll explain that my view changed when Musk went from delivering as much or more than he claimed, as was the case with early SpaceX and Tesla. to massively over-promising and under-delivering, e.g., now nearly a decade late on his FSD, so late on Starship that his first cricumlunar customer already bailed, making inflated promises about AI, lying about OpenAI, delivering Cybertruck a half-decade late and with crappy quality, etc., etc., etc. One particular turning point was when he argued about software engineering in public with one of Twitter's lead engineers, and it was obvious to me (with some background in commercial software) that Musk was nothing but bluster and bullshit; it became clear he is not a master engineer, he's a master manipulator. I have far less respect for the latter.
As you can see, it has absolutely zero to do with whatever 'anti-establishment' carp you are ranting on about. But you seem to enjoy your fact-free life more, so carry on.
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One is a failure to act as an agent - to control the car and make decisions. Another is a failure to even be a reliable tool - to do what the operator commands. Very different. Creating Agents is a lot harder.
Coming up with new words and terms in order to escape the comparison smacks of This Time It’s Different. Therac-25 was an Agent for performing radiation therapy - it controlled the radiation machine and made decisions. Autopilot/FSD is supposed to be a tool for the driver and it fails to be a reliable tool by driving into things. This Time It’s Not Different At All
Tool - Pretty much everything humanity has made to date. It does a preprogrammed thing or provides mechanical advantage. But it does not act on novel decisions it is making.
The terms come from an AI safety expert that Lex Friedman interviewed recently. [1]
Tesla FSD is almost an agent, though it asks a human to be ready to take over at any time.
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> Most of Japanese innovation is actually from US companies that they took over. Just gonna leave this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese_inventions_an... Hopefully you'll realize that that is one of the more uninformed takes you've had, and then question the other things you think are true.
I clicked on that list. I went to pocket calculator, and it said the first one was made in the United States.
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Your views on Musk changed precisely when everyone else's did, when he started challenging the establishment on critical points, like their support for rampant censorship of Twitter and other social media sites (e.g. removing the Hunter Biden story before the election and permanently banning users if they used certain gender pronoun conventions). No one who drives a Tesla thinks that the driver assist features are in…
>>Your views on Musk changed precisely when everyone else's did NO they did not. If I was like you, I'd over-generalize and say that "you are just like every other right-wing nutter who only believes a limited view of the world and must slam any other view, regardless of how disconneced from the facts..." But I won't. I'll explain that my view changed when Musk went from delivering as much or more than he claimed, as…
All his faults came into laser focus, and a disproportionate share of coverage became negative in its slant.
Nothing in his entrepreneurial strategy changed since 2018. Ordinary people just don't appreciate how ideologically biased mainstream news media is, so are taken in by the change in how they choose to portray him.
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>>Your views on Musk changed precisely when everyone else's did NO they did not. If I was like you, I'd over-generalize and say that "you are just like every other right-wing nutter who only believes a limited view of the world and must slam any other view, regardless of how disconneced from the facts..." But I won't. I'll explain that my view changed when Musk went from delivering as much or more than he claimed, as…
Musk has always over-promised. The entirely left-wing establishment news media turned on him when he started criticizing the sacred cows of and growing support for censorship by the political left, which mainstream journalists, unionized as they all are, try to show solidarity with. All his faults came into laser focus, and a disproportionate share of coverage became negative in its slant. Nothing in his entrepreneur…
Yes he has, we're in agreement.
> The entirely left-wing establishment news media
You opened your mind too far here and your brain may have fallen out.
Have you heard of Fox News and the Murdoch empire? Could you explain how either Murdoch isn't part of the US establishment news media or how it is that he's "left-wing" ?
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Musk has always over-promised. The entirely left-wing establishment news media turned on him when he started criticizing the sacred cows of and growing support for censorship by the political left, which mainstream journalists, unionized as they all are, try to show solidarity with. All his faults came into laser focus, and a disproportionate share of coverage became negative in its slant. Nothing in his entrepreneur…
> Musk has always over-promised. Yes he has, we're in agreement. > The entirely left-wing establishment news media You opened your mind too far here and your brain may have fallen out. Have you heard of Fox News and the Murdoch empire? Could you explain how either Murdoch isn't part of the US establishment news media or how it is that he's "left-wing" ?
Where do you think the media and political power concentrates in the US? The Republican party or the Democratic Party?
89% of cities with a population > 100,000 in the US have a Democrat mayor. All of the public sector unions support the Democrats. All of the news guilds, and most of their members, support the Democrats.
Almost all of academia supports the Democrats. Law firms donate five times more to the Democrats than to Republicans. The political class is intimately linked to the legal profession.
Judge Kathaleen McCormick, who rescinded Elon Musk's $55 billion Tesla compensation package, against the will of the company's board and 80% of its shareholders, worked at Young Conaway before her Delaware Chancery Court Judge appointment.
In 2016, Hunter Biden organized a gubernatorial campaign event for Congressman John Carney, featuring then-Vice President Joe Biden as the guest speaker. The event was held at the Law Offices of Young Conaway in Wilmington, Delaware.
The lawyers who won the lawsuit against Musk thanks to McCormick's ruling are now asking for $5.5 billion in Tesla stock, for their legal fees. Giving to Democrat-allied lawyers and taking from technologists.
>Yes he has, we're in agreement.
I'm not surprised you agree with me on the one negative thing I've said about him. Entirely predictable.
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Either the advertising misleads the driver or it does not. Whether the advertising might mislead some buyers, investors and unconnected members of the general public, is orthogonal to whether drivers are being misled, and thus whether accidents caused by their unattentiveness should be blamed on Tesla. There is no credible case to be made that any Tesla driver is unaware of Tesla's stance, that the driver assist feat…
> If you want to challenge that notion in court, be my guest. I mean, you do realize that there is a class action against Tesla for misleading customers with the names of their products, right? This is actively being fought in the courts. That alone should prove that people feel misled by the marketing. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-must-face-vehicle-owner... > There is no credible case to be made that any Tes…
But more to the point: being misled into purchasing it is entirely different than being misled while driving it, and blaming an accident on thinking the auto assist didn't need their attention as a result.
That is not what the lawsuit is alleging.
It stands to reason that if there was anything approaching a credible case that any driver thinks they don't need to be engaged while driving a Tesla, because of misleading naming of its driver assist features, some law firm somewhere would have organized a lawsuit on behalf of accident victims by now.
So the evidence supports my position.