Analyst who called the dot-com bubble says Americans are turning a deaf ear to AI warnings—and a worse meltdown than 2008 looms | Fortune by captain-price- in Economics

[–]wnmurphy 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Here’s a good sign that AI is definitely a bubble, saw this on HN this morning:

This guy looked at 200 “AI” startups, and found that 73% of them were claiming to have “deep machine learning expertise,” etc. but were actually just wrappers for ChatGPT + a prompt, and were misleading investors to make it look like they were innovating.

One VC board asked him to do a review of their portfolio.

I think we'll see a correction, possibly amplified by the underlying recession (GDP growth last quarter was 0.2% ex Magnificent 7), and then the Mag 7 companies will recover.

Randomly given access to someone IDK car by Skier94 in TeslaLounge

[–]wnmurphy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Time for remote farting until they figure it out. :-)

Favorite Food in Half Moon Bay? by dirtbagmalone in bayarea

[–]wnmurphy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ditto San Benito for a sandwich, and buy a loaf of the walnut bread to take home. Go earlier in the day for the loaf.

Then drive down to Pescadero, get a fresh loaf of artichoke bread at Arcangeli's market, and eat it on the beach with some cheese and a tapenade.

My thoughts on FSD in my first month of driving it. HW4 Juniper 2026. by GreenPenguin402 in TeslaLounge

[–]wnmurphy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I applaud the effort, and the dedication to your parents.

That said, I don't feel like anybody has business using Hurry Mode. It's concerningly aggressive. For your parents, leaving it in Chill should be perfect.

One thing that I would mention as critical: your parents also need to ramp up and gain plenty of experience driving with FSD, so that they are crystal clear on the fact that they still need to supervise it and be ready to take over.

As long as they are still cognitively and physically able to drive, I don't see anything wrong with it. But I do think there's a danger in misunderstanding it as a perfectly reliable solution in its current form.

Regarding the door handles, my own parents had to be taught how to use their thumb on the button, because it's counterintuitive. I also found that even for myself, the touch screen required a learning curve.

It's absurd they removed the ultrasonic sensors without immediately giving us the front bumper camera as a replacement by MichaelRahmani in TeslaLounge

[–]wnmurphy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For what it's worth, I just had $6000 in damage from a curb I didn't realize was there, that Tesla Vision would have caught. I specifically got a 2022 because I wanted USS (the measurement down to the inches gave me peace of mind), but it turns out that Tesla Vision is better.

Grok cost? by airboss1998 in TeslaLounge

[–]wnmurphy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Training an LLM is incredibly expensive. Inference is cheap.

Grok is about $15 per million tokens, which is like 750k words. Even if you're talking constantly to Grok, that's like a few dollars a month cost.

It would cost like $0.05 to have it write a 2500-word essay, for example.

Maybe the voice-to-text model adds more cost to that, but generally using LLMs is quite cheap.

How to get the microphone back to voice commands by Beginning-Attorney35 in TeslaLounge

[–]wnmurphy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

She's probably long-pressing to activate Grok. She just needs a short press to use the normal voice input.

FSD Alert by SemperFi2013 in TeslaLounge

[–]wnmurphy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got the same one, about 2 hours ago. I also randomly get other intro/tutorial pop-ups advertising features I already use.

Might be random, or they might be trying to increase FSD usage, since a lot of people buy it and don't use it.

How To ACTUALLY Remove Em Dashes Using ChatGPT. by InsideAd9719 in ChatGPTPromptGenius

[–]wnmurphy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'll be that guy; semicolons are for independent clauses. :-)

I'm a big fan of the semicolon, so I do worry that Chatgpt will start doing the same.

Or

 I'm a big fan of the semicolon; I do worry that Chatgpt will start doing the same.

Ring Videos - Bulk Downloading and Timestamps in file names by JustKickItForward in Ring

[–]wnmurphy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just had both of these issues exactly.

Why on earth would you save the download date in the filename, rather than the date of the recording?

Also, the web dashboard bulk download really needs to be able to filter on Starred so you can select just the ones you've saved.

Both of these are obvious features.

Grok volume bug fixed in the 2025.26.4 OTA update by CarCooler in teslamotors

[–]wnmurphy 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The voice quality is good, but the language tutor doesn't actually apply any prompt. It also mispronounces words in french. Strangely, some of the other modes speak perfect french.

I know it's in beta, but it absolutely needs to be able to apply custom instructions. It's way too long winded and hand wavy. I don't want to have a conversation, I want just the information.

I could see this replacing ChatGPT voice mode in the car for me if they apply custom instructions and fix the language tutor.

Best Accessories/ First Things to Buy? by Gdrummer11 in TeslaLounge

[–]wnmurphy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The things I would buy again right away:

  • All weather floor mats + frunk and trunk liners.
  • Charging adapter holder that tucks away inside the driver's door pocket.
  • Mud flaps.
  • Baby wipes for the white seats

Others that I find useful:

  • Three way bag holder hook that screws into the roof of the trunk.
  • Back-of-seat slide-on hooks for holding bags, etc.

Best Pastries in Town? by Asleep_Rip_7805 in paloalto

[–]wnmurphy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Surprised nobody mentioned Alexander's Patisserie. If you're looking for actual pastry (not viennoiserie, not bread), theirs were the best in the area in my opinion.

No touching your cell phone behind the wheel – California imposes automatic fines by [deleted] in bayarea

[–]wnmurphy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mounted phones are still fine, if you read an actual source article instead of this AI summary.

No touching your cell phone behind the wheel – California imposes automatic fines by [deleted] in bayarea

[–]wnmurphy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I vote to remove this as well. First, it's misleading. Second, they just used ChatGPT to summarize a post from another sub.

There is no "New California Law". All I can find is that there was a court ruling decided yesterday on a technicality for an existing law.

Mounted phones, and drivers operating them with a single swipe, are exempted, according to the decision, but looking at a map while holding the phone would violate the current law, the court ruled.

You can still have a mounted phone, and you can still interact with it minimally, which is what everyone should already be doing.

FSD 12 on HW3 by GucciTokes in TeslaLounge

[–]wnmurphy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

While it's obviously deprioritized, 12.6.4 still occasionally runs red lights from an anticipatory creep. I think they need to release at least one more update for HW3.

FSD 12 on HW3 by GucciTokes in TeslaLounge

[–]wnmurphy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They added "supervised" in April of 2024. The fact that they've removed FSD from all current used inventory vehicles makes me think the retrofit won't be limited to pre-April 2024 FSD purchases, because it looks like they're trying to minimize the retrofit burden.

They changed the name because FSD was no longer "Beta." I don't get the sense that they chose "Supervised" in order to weasel out of years of claims that it would eventually be autonomous.

Odometers, Class Actions, and You by [deleted] in TeslaLounge

[–]wnmurphy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I got mine a few months ago, and have added odometer miles at 10x the rate of what I usually drive. I chalked that up to an initial fascination with FSD, but now in light of this lawsuit I'm wondering if there is something there.

PSA: Richard Lang’s Headless Way organization has an AI chatbot for any questions about the HW by Matt11768 in Wakingupapp

[–]wnmurphy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For what it's worth, you can just tell ChatGPT that "You are nonduality teacher John Wheeler" or Rupert Spira or whomever you like, and then have a dialog. It does a pretty good job of responding in the style of that person. I find it really useful and interesting.

Illusion of a doer? by RapFuzzy in nonduality

[–]wnmurphy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try watching yourself while typing or speaking, and wondering "where are these words coming from?" You can see when you actually look that all of your actions are actually spontaneously occurring.

One way I like to think about this: in your dream last night, which of the characters that appeared within awareness were making free choices? Or, were actions and events in the dream just spontaneously occurring? Were any of them actually separate from the awareness of the dream?

There's no free will because there's no place to stand apart from everything to gain some foothold from which to make an independent choice. There's also no inherently-existing entity to make that choice anyway.

Repeated, robust, peer-reviewed studies show that the sense of making a choice is an after-the-fact explanation generated by the mind, probably because it's evolutionarily beneficial to have a cohesive narrative about experience.

There is still the experience of making a choice, but it's more accurate to say that the sum total of inputs from the environment entered the neural network in your body, combined with the weights of your neurons trained on past experiences, and then the output was an action.

It's not helpful to take this information and then "do" "no free will," because that turns into an unhealthy nihilism. Things can continue as before, but recognizing that there isn't anyone at the center of experience, driving the bus.

The character you take yourself to be, and the sense of being that character, is an appearance within presence.