I don’t have anything to say that the title doesn’t already. Consider my gast to be flabbered, my gob to be smacked. I hate this timeline.

  • future_synthetic@awful.systemsOP
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    1 year ago

    “smart and hardworking people” aside, the normalization and dismissal of these statements as just marketing or otherwise harmless fibs has enabled a consistent escalation of scope and affect. Design shortcuts that Tesla has made have resulted in actual death and injury, and claiming that the cars have agi even in a rudimentary sense is astonishing.

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      1 year ago

      literally my first thought: “oh, so he wants to try blame the deaths on a wee little machine intelligence that oopsie just didn’t know any better?”

      (because he would spin that narrative if he thought he could get away with it)