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fuck_ai

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YouTube is dying. Yes, it's because of AI.

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Whilst Nebula is great, it's still lacking variety in content imo. Sometimes I just want to switch off and watch a let's play or something instead of a documentary or video essay.

They should make a mindless version of Nebula or something, call it 'Numbula'. (Yes, I did write this comment just to share that name idea.)

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Elon Musk's robotaxi will have a human driver for 'safety' reasons

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That's because Tesla self-driving takes a different, and imo way worse, approach.

Waymo relies on mapping, the entire city is basically 3D modelled and loaded into the car memory. It's more or less 'on rails'. It also uses LIDAR for live data alongside imaging cameras, again building a 3D model of its environment combined with image recognition.

Tesla decided that, for some reason, they want their cars to drive 'like humans', only relying on vision and deployable anywhere, without pre-mapping.

Demanding a computer to behave like humans, instead of using a computer's strengths, seems like a very poorly thought out move to me.

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I heard this tip that works decently sometimes.

If you notice it's dirty, don't conclude that you have to clean. Instead, because you're noticing, you should conclude you want it to be clean. That obviously requires you to do some cleaning, but it's something you want, not something you're forced to do.

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Of course there's no easy answers, but your post reminded me of the following:

Hannah Arendt's essay 'On Violence'. Power stems from people collectively working towards change, strength etc. is violence. Anarchism requires a collective desire which is anti-coercion and anti-violence. Arendt was partly inspired by Rosa Luxemburg's views on spontaneous revolution.

Graeber's 'Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology' and le Guin's fictional novel 'The Dispossessed' give some insight into what is required for maintaining anarchist ways of organizing. In brief: you leave, divorce yourself from oppressive systems and start over elsewhere.

Which is of course difficult if not impossible on a planet which has been near entirely colonized. Somewhat more philosophical, anarchism requires the dissolution of notions of property. Agamben writes on monastic forms of life, which seem rather anarchist to me, in 'The Highest Poverty'. Graeber and Wengrow mention the 'sacredness' of objects in 'The Dawn of Everything', which is a terribly deep anthropological and philosophical rabbit hole, but there's some interesting connections between sacred objects and possession.

All books mentioned are worth the read of course, imo.