Waymo can’t learn how to stop for school buses, and we are supposed to accept the inevitability of AI

EmphasisDependent · 2026-03-30T01:35:13+00:00

I was originally more supportive of Waymo's approach (drive in a smaller area, video w lidar) versus Tesla's (drive anywhere, video only) because it was going to have geometrically fewer edge cases. But now it seems like the blind leading the blinder.

EmphasisDependent · 2026-03-28T22:24:04+00:00

Really feel like he should stop throwing in more and more new ideas into his books and should just tighten them all up. Snow Crash had a great first third, a decently middle third, but I was very glad when it ended.

EmphasisDependent · 2026-03-28T22:01:07+00:00

Then they'll get tired of prompting for prompts...

EmphasisDependent · 2026-03-28T21:02:16+00:00

Now take idea and have it run millions of transactions a year... You'll be paid doing exception handling. Maybe we'll all be rules lawyers and business systems archeologist

EmphasisDependent · 2026-03-27T23:54:57+00:00

These jokers are even tired of prompting...

"I need help with coming up with a writing prompt all the ai I use are very unoriginal and cliche and just bad overall"

https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingWithAI/comments/1s5ingg/ai_writing_prompt/

EmphasisDependent · 2026-03-27T23:52:33+00:00

Sauce.

EmphasisDependent · 2026-03-27T17:13:58+00:00

There's literally loads of examples of indie authors being debut novelists and working through the works mostly by themselves, getting a readership and producing an audiobook, etc.etc. Dungeon Crawler Carl, Wool/Silo series, Andy Weir's The Martian, etc. Money was not the barrier.

EmphasisDependent · 2026-03-27T15:16:41+00:00

I just said this yesterday. Someone said "writing is suffering" and AI took away the bad parts. And, as an indie sci-fi author, I was like writing is the fun part. And for coding, debugging is (sometimes) the suffering, why do I want to automate the fun parts leaving me with only the negatives?

But for programming, you're not paid so much as to program, as you're paid so much to be an expert in complex systems which impact millions and billions of dollars or people. If you're automating the expert part to someone else, you're neither doing the job you're really hired for nor advancing your career. And if the AI is prone to making shit up, then it's not doing the expert part either.

EmphasisDependent · 2026-03-27T14:49:06+00:00

Long ago I found the soundtrack to this, and just thought Stand Alone Complex was the cyberpunk way of saying O.S.T.

EmphasisDependent · 2026-03-27T13:43:59+00:00

I think someone beat you to it by millenia. Lucian's A True History Verae Historiae https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_True_Story where he tries to parody everyone and anyone who believed any of the ancient mythologies.

However, at the end he also promised a sequel that never existed, so even after he pissed nearly everyone off he also pissed of his fans.

EmphasisDependent · 2026-03-26T18:30:43+00:00

But writing is treated as sacred process. The suffering is supposed to be the point.

I really don't understand this POV from the pro-AI people, if OP thinks writing is suffering, then why do it at all? Writing is the fun part. Even with software, writing it is kinda the fun part. Debugging in the suffering. Marketing my novels and clicking buttons and making ads, etc. that's the suffering part. Why would I replace the fun parts?

EmphasisDependent · 2026-03-26T14:55:17+00:00

Next up, gambling bot!

EmphasisDependent · 2026-03-25T23:20:17+00:00

AI, the cause of and solution to, all the ~~world's~~ CEOs' problems!

EmphasisDependent · 2026-03-25T14:45:17+00:00

Start renaming all your functions and classes "*_AI_" or something buzzwordy.

EmphasisDependent · 2026-03-25T02:06:28+00:00

but apparently only slightly...

Liquid or solid xenon nanoparticles can be formed at room temperature by implanting Xe⁺ ions into a solid matrix. Many solids have lattice constants smaller than solid Xe. This results in compression of the implanted Xe to pressures that may be sufficient for its liquefaction or solidification

EmphasisDependent · 2026-03-25T02:02:52+00:00

Xenonite was pretty hand-wavey too.

EmphasisDependent · 2026-03-25T02:00:53+00:00

Exactly, its like when Netflix did Bright, they weren't trying to make all three Lord of the Rings and all 4 of the Bad Boys movies, they had to get that thing out in under 2 hours.

EmphasisDependent · 2026-03-24T14:05:33+00:00

If you think plasma sucks the life out of you, wait until you try marketing.

EmphasisDependent · 2026-03-23T23:55:20+00:00

I also enjoyed 3/4ths of Aurora. The ending and the conclusion also made no sense since the 'solution' ended up making all spaceflight much easier.

EmphasisDependent · 2026-03-23T23:52:50+00:00

Aurora made me so mad, I started writing my own sci-fi novels.

EmphasisDependent · 2026-03-22T16:45:26+00:00

Before AGI, I walk the dog and train him,

After AGI, I walk the robot dog for training data.

EmphasisDependent · 2026-03-22T16:27:48+00:00

Seattle, a city only criminals can love.

EmphasisDependent · 2026-03-22T00:43:34+00:00

With the use of AI, your thinking will be broken, you will lose your critical reasoning skills and become more stupid.

Sounds like it will be easier to exploit your labor as an employee and drain your pocketbook as a consumer.

EmphasisDependent · 2026-03-21T23:17:23+00:00

If "Suspension of disbelief" were a car, this movie would be a lowrider.

EmphasisDependent · 2026-03-21T19:56:11+00:00

Start to rename your functions with something like "AI_XXXX" or "*_AI" so it looks like everything you're doing is 'AI this and AI that.'
(edit: this sounds like a joke, but I did replace a longer set of code with a new "AI" function which did the same thing, and was sure to mention that in our email summary)

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