The following doesn’t apply to everybody in technology, but it applies to enough of them: At some point STEM education was the only thing the Olds cared about because of something something Asia, and now we have a couple of generations that are highly educated on paper and comically unaware of the complexity of the world outside of WordPress plugins.

I was going to say it’s not just technology executives. I’m glad the author addressed this too. It’s the whole industry.

People do this to ourselves too. How often do people see a tech nerd and think they’re some sort of all knowing demigod.

“You’re a tech guy. Here fix my thing.”

“Tell me about such and such complex topic complete outside of your niche professional expertise but you’re of the All Knowing so opine me your All Knowing wisdom.”

Everybody just fucking stop already.

You trigger their autistic word vomit. They use an excessive amount of tech jargon you don’t understand. So people assume it must be profound insight. In fact 99% of what they’re saying is complete non-sense.

Yeah it was a useless metric anyways. What I’ve found is that people use that number to as evidence to some rhetoric. Pretty much every time I point out it’s a useless metric they become very angry.

Reap what you sow.

SSDs are fast enough as swap to be imperceptible to the untrained eye. A good test is to disable swap for a while. You can bet they will see their system grind its gears at some point.

Operating systems are designed with the assumption that swap will be used. 32GB is roughly the waterline where you can forgo it all together while avoiding consequenecs of the code freaking out when it needs it and doesn’t have any.

Wiith how often either someone I know or some random user is like, here watch this. And it’s anywhere from 15-60 minute video. How many hours day do you think I have. Just sum up what you’re trying to show me in a few sentences.

It’s like the 21st century version of useless work meetings.

This didn’t need to be a meeting.
This didn’t need to be a Youtube video.
This didn’t need to be a podcast.
It’s oversaturation.

Same goes with podcasts. I’m sure we’re past peak podcasting too. Everyone and their dog has a podcast. 99% of them are private conversations that have no reason for existing as podcasts. People are recording a random conversation about nothing and calling it a podcast episode. Just stop.

I don’t even watch so many hours of TV shows. I have maybe two or three shows I’ll be watching at any given time. That’s like a few hours a week. The algorithmic content pushing has lost the plot. They expect us to be robotic content consuming machines 24 hours a day, seven days week. I have to eat and shit and earn a living so I can continue to sustain my physical existence so I can consume content. I suppose this is the natural end goal of adtech companies like Google. A tireless soulless machine that devours humanity.

Much of the content has become useless fluff. A good chunk of Youtube videos and podcasts are just friends bantering or cackling over inside jokes. Like why am I listening to this noise being blasted from my headphone to my ears. I’m over it.

I think it’s the original generation of reddit libertarian conservatives using the sub as controlled oppositon. That place used to be a Ron Paul circle jerk. They don’t necessarily like all of Trumpism but they recognize they’re more aligned than with liberals. At most they’re establishment Democrats but I think they’re no farther left than center right.

I disagree. Google has always been a thinly veiled Microsoft. A wolf in sheeps clothing. They embrace, extend, extinguish. It’s the same thing.

Isn’t this just the tech industry. Run at a loss. Eat VC money. Wait. Wait.

Some how you become normalized and suddenly important Next thing you know you’re raking profit.

Like the guy that has no friends who nobody really likes. He won’t go away. He just sticks around. Nobody ever told him to fuck off. So he’s just part of the group.

I tried having it identify an unknown integrated circuit. It hallucinated a chip. It kept giving me non-existent datasheets and 404 links to digikey/mouser/etc.

Never forget Eglin Air Force base. Reddit is and always has been a State Department apparatus.

This kind of thing is real. Newbies don’t have experience to know how important architecture is. They continuously mash code without thinking too much. Generative machines have made the problem orders of magnitude worse. It used to be limited to the amount of garbage a human could mash into their keyboard. Now it’s like generated art. People churn out infinite images. They haven’t actually drawn the image themselves.

The original comment is perpetuating the lie. Intentional or not. They rely on fundamentally flawed soundbites that are precisely crafted for propaganda not to be informative or truthful at all.

Right off the bat they’re saying “in principle” which presumes the baseline lie that “full self driving” is achieved. Then they strengthen their argument by reinforcing the idea that it’s functionally equivalent to humans (i.e. generalized intelligence). Then the cap it off with “no known flaw”. Pure lies.

Of course they’ve hedged by implying it’s opinion but strongly suggest it’s the most correct one anyways.

I’m unsure of and how much has changed

This demonstrates exactly how effective the propaganda is. They set up scenarios where nobody honest will refute their bullshit with certainty. Even though we know there is no existing system is on par with human drivers. Sure they can massage data to say under certain conditions an automated driving system performed similarly by some metric or whatever. But that’s fundamentally not what they are telling laymen audience. They’re lying in order to lead the average person to believe they can trust their car to drive them as if they are a passenger and another human is behind the wheel. This not true. Period. There is no existing system that does this. There will not be in the foreseeable future.

The fact of the meta is that technological discussion is more about this kind of propaganda than technology itself. If it weren’t the case then more people would be hearing about the actual technology and it’s real limitations. Not all the spin-doctoring. That leads to uncertainty and confusion. Which leads to preventable deaths.

You’re committing a worse sin. You’re fighting the culture war for the powers that be.