right obviously but i mean, i always thought the point of being a nerd and/or having money was that it freed you from kowtowing to all the myths and cant
plus what kind of christian wants to extend life indefinitely, IT'S ALREADY EXTENDED EVERLASTINGLY
― j., Wednesday, 15 June 2016 01:01 (eight years ago) link
maybe a la the protestant ethic the idea is to extend life indefinitely in order to obtain maximal wealth and thus maximal salvation!
― ryan, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 02:27 (eight years ago) link
yeesh http://techcrunch.com/2016/06/14/zenefits-is-laying-off-another-106-people-and-offering-others-a-buyout/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 15 June 2016 03:17 (eight years ago) link
https://medium.com/thinkpiece-dot-club/techs-scapegoat-complex-38a4bfb37f22#.mcz4fwrf1
ryan, you will be so into this
― j., Wednesday, 15 June 2016 06:36 (eight years ago) link
!
are we to presume that Thiel took classes from Girard.
Michel Serres is at Stanford too. if he wasn't so loopy i could imagine silicon valley types getting into him.
― ryan, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 15:16 (eight years ago) link
that was what i gathered but i dunno
― j., Wednesday, 15 June 2016 18:00 (eight years ago) link
well this happened
http://www.sfgate.com/business/technology/article/Self-driving-car-driver-died-after-crash-in-8334982.php
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 June 2016 21:48 (eight years ago) link
feel like self-driving car is not something i want to be beta-testing
― The Nickelbackean Ethics (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 30 June 2016 21:51 (eight years ago) link
So far, way better than human-driven cars...
― schwantz, Thursday, 30 June 2016 22:09 (eight years ago) link
I'm quite capable of driving under a truck without digital intervention
― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Friday, 1 July 2016 00:21 (eight years ago) link
theres one for the old silicon valley resume
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Friday, 1 July 2016 02:18 (eight years ago) link
The deaths per miles driven stay that Tesla is citing is a little misleading - that number is going to include drunk driving accidents, people not wearing seat belts etc.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Friday, 1 July 2016 02:54 (eight years ago) link
granted a drunk person is obviously a lot safer in a self driving car.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Friday, 1 July 2016 02:55 (eight years ago) link
unless the car is drunk
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 1 July 2016 03:11 (eight years ago) link
That's at least one Herbie film, right?
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 1 July 2016 07:09 (eight years ago) link
Seen so many techno-utopians on reddit and elsewhere screaming that it's the driver's fault for not taking over the autopilot when they saw the truck turning, not the software's fault. a) if you are not already driving the car, your reaction time is gonna be a lot slower, and b) if the autopilot works correctly for the first two months you have a car, of course you're gonna assume it works correctly all the time. people compare it to cruise control, but cruise control is waaaay more predictable. I don't even understand why people think an autopilot you have to monitor vigilantly is even a good idea
― Vinnie, Friday, 1 July 2016 10:02 (eight years ago) link
I don't even understand why people think an autopilot you have to monitor vigilantly is even a good idea.
Bingo! We have a winner!
This is not exactly a situation like airliners, where the human pilots are highly trained, highly paid professionals, with the built-in redundancy of a co-pilot who can take over for the main pilot at any moment. Plus there aren't many other objects to hit at 30,000 feet. In that situation an autopilot is just a tool for use by professionals. Ordinary cars and their drivers do not meet any of these qualifications.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Friday, 1 July 2016 17:20 (eight years ago) link
even w airline pilots in the autopilot era you get things like air france 447, where the autopilot fails and at least one of the pilots hasn't actually played microsoft flight simulator enough (and/or is sufficiently panicked+confused) to know you nose down in a stall
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Friday, 1 July 2016 19:20 (eight years ago) link
monitoring an autopilot vigilantly sounds like it would take more mental effort than driving
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Friday, 1 July 2016 20:34 (eight years ago) link
i agree that an autopilot you have to monitor in a quick response situation like driving seems lethal, but 1 death in, what, a year?, seems like it's less lethal than letting the human drive.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 1 July 2016 20:36 (eight years ago) link
1 death in, what, a year?
tbf, human-piloted cars were driven a few more miles and hours last year than the self-driving ones
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Friday, 1 July 2016 21:34 (eight years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/01/tesla-driver-killed-autopilot-self-driving-car-harry-potter
Tesla driver killed while using autopilot was watching Harry Potter, witness says
― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Saturday, 2 July 2016 00:03 (eight years ago) link
Inattentius collisio!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 2 July 2016 00:13 (eight years ago) link
one third of automobile deaths result from drunk driving and more than half involve no seatbelt, so musk's comparison needs to be taken with a massive grain of salt. So far it is certainly not apparent that self driving cars are as safe as human-driven by non drunks where you are wearing a restraint.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Saturday, 2 July 2016 00:14 (eight years ago) link
Ouch from NYT: “[Joshua Brown] had said, ‘For something to catch Elon Musk’s eye, I can die and go to heaven now,’” said a neighbor, Krista Kitchen, choking up. “He was absolutely thrilled – and then a couple weeks later he died.”
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Saturday, 2 July 2016 12:47 (eight years ago) link
If this was a subplot on Silicon Valley we would be laughing
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 2 July 2016 14:28 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmXghC9WAAAfbrU.jpg
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 2 July 2016 18:36 (eight years ago) link
http://toyworth.com/browse/Knight/2000/Crash/Set/action/figure//1983//Knight/Rider/Accessories/100/lrg-packaged-front.jpg
― salthigh, Saturday, 2 July 2016 19:55 (eight years ago) link
Rex: I was still young enough that I wanted to have a, like, a party hangout kind of life, and Seattle…seemed interesting at the time, but man, I just kept meeting people that — I always say it’s a city that has product managers who want to be vice presidents.
Paul: Ooof.
Rex: Like it’s a lot of, just…
Rich: Wow.
Paul: [wounded noise]
Rex: A lot of Amazon people…
Rich: That’s a rough tagline for Seattle tourism right there.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 16:42 (eight years ago) link
they're easy to spot and avoid tho
― Sean, let me be clear (silby), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 16:59 (eight years ago) link
caek, what is that from
― ejemplo (crüt), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 17:02 (eight years ago) link
sorry https://trackchanges.postlight.com/podcast-20-rex-sorgatz-the-other-side-of-fate-2151da51f998#.ivs4e4udy
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 17:05 (eight years ago) link
hey I know that Paul Ford guy, was at his wedding and everything
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 17:06 (eight years ago) link
what?!
― mh, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 18:05 (eight years ago) link
I'm surprised at the connection, but mostly surprised you aren't commenting on a thread about his wedding saying that you didn't go but heard it was a bad ceremony
― mh, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 18:06 (eight years ago) link
he married the woman who officiated my own wedding. we aren't best buds or anything, but his wife is an old college friend of mine
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 18:40 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnCBn18VMAAfqhw.jpg
― mookieproof, Sunday, 10 July 2016 21:26 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ZeqyR0o.jpg
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 10 July 2016 23:13 (eight years ago) link
Benioff is one of the least terrible though
― El Tomboto, Monday, 11 July 2016 00:30 (eight years ago) link
Like, he actually uses some of his money & influence on actual progressive political causes in the real world, he's not trying to invent Utopia in a west coast bunker and export it to the rest of us dummies
― El Tomboto, Monday, 11 July 2016 00:33 (eight years ago) link
Yeah he's ok w me
Tweet was inappropriate but its undeniable social media has been crucial un bringing this issue wide attention
― Οὖτις, Monday, 11 July 2016 01:03 (eight years ago) link
he is sorry
― mh, Monday, 11 July 2016 14:22 (eight years ago) link
Source?
― inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Monday, 11 July 2016 16:03 (eight years ago) link
Sorry. Im sorry. Im trying to remove it
― goole, Monday, 11 July 2016 16:28 (eight years ago) link
yeah idk look at LBI's image
― mh, Monday, 11 July 2016 18:04 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnXjMNOUsAAztY1.jpg:small
― mookieproof, Friday, 15 July 2016 02:46 (eight years ago) link
idk what 'expensify' is but they do realize the Lord of the Flies was a rotting pig's head on a stick, right?
― five memes that i can hardly stand to view (Doctor Casino), Friday, 15 July 2016 05:07 (eight years ago) link
oddly enough, so is the ceo of expensify
― mh, Friday, 15 July 2016 14:44 (eight years ago) link
should we have a thread for Sourpuss Valley techno-dystopianism?
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/07/pokemon-go-invasion-oliver-stone-snowden-surveillance/
It manipulates your behaviour. It has happened already quite a bit on the Internet, but you’ll see it everywhere—you'll see a new form of, frankly, a robot society, where they will know how you want to behave and they will make the mockup that matches how you behave and feed you. It’s what they call totalitarianism.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 22 July 2016 14:51 (eight years ago) link
lol the promos for that oliver stone snowden film look horrible
― mh, Friday, 22 July 2016 15:20 (eight years ago) link