Schön!

Leider kein schönes Thema.

Komme selbst aus Silicon Valley und bin sehr enttäuscht über der Entwicklung.

That is awesome.

Right. I think we are gonna find out the space between tasks where robots and software can do things just as well or better than humans, and tasks where we are just so much better that it's not worth trying, at least not soon.

There's going to be a lot of surprises. And tough adjustments.

There's still definitely another round or two of automatization possible on the robotics side. Vision and sensors combined with AI/ML (not genAI) for real time decision making, better force feedback and sensitivity for wider range of handling of tasks, etc. is what I'm seeing right now.

It is a little more nuanced than that: a lot of the obvious automation has already been done. What's left is not easy to automate or not cost effective, and those positions currently involve humans in the workflow. To not disrupt the workflow, humanoid robots can make sense. But not Elon's.

It's all Greek to him?

Also look at this fried rice which is way too colorful and has 14 ingredients.

cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1217...

Look it's just what happens when chicken stock comes out of a tetra pak and they don't want to add MSG. But want to claim that there's a recipe.

I think the concern is "national security", that there could be remote control or back door access built in that's subject to Chinese government wishes. So that if we are at war, they can remotely brick the cars or sabotage or get critical info.

Are you suggesting that Trump is trying to doing that? However poorly?

Genuinely curious.

Disagree on the lack of any meaningful trade policy.

Biden was the one that put 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs and also got Canada to do the same, effectively banning them from North America.

Also this is from 2024:

Biden was trying to do that, with the IRA and CHIPS Act, and having some fair success with them too. Also he kept a number of Trump 1.0 tariffs on China. I think that is directionally correct, which Trump 2.0 has thoroughly torn down.

Yes, please free Berlin next, of the ridiculous CDU+SPD coalition that just wants to build expensive Autobahns. That don't even work.

I voted in Santa Clara county myself.

Hoping for some sort of redemption story from this area, to show that it isn't just all negativity and GenAI hot air.

Also interesting that for all the talk of tech bros, Silicon Valley, and the Bay Area, is overwhelmingly Democrat. Despite all the Teslas on the street.

Noch dazu:

www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Would indeed do amazing to the affordability of the city!

Clearly there's a spectrum and it's interesting to know about the range.

All that talk about what makes us essentially human in that article rubbed me the wrong way. Everybody quoted in the article is obviously human! And apparently all capable and productive members of society, even.