I feel like we are heading to a post-work future where eventually AI and robotics will do most of the work and that will be a good thing. In the meantime, I’m sure there will be a lot of pain and revolution to get to that point.
Even in rich Western countries tens of millions of people rely on driving, delivery and taxi jobs. When people realize they are disappearing forever we’ll be one step closer to that future.
When might it integrate Lemmy?
Last month, Alphabet announced it would invest a fresh $5 billion in its autonomous vehicle unit, which first began as “project chauffeur” at Google in 2009. Jeyachandran told CNBC that the capital will be used mostly for scaling,
That should buy quite a few new robotaxis.
Musk again recently said that he believes Tesla could finally deliver on its promise of an unsupervised self-driving system by the end of the year, or he will “be surprised” if it doesn’t happen next year.
The CEO doesn’t have much credibility with these predictions as he said the same thing every year for the last 5 years.
Precisely.
I wonder if the first Level 5 car is going to happen in China?
Even more insane is the price. 10c per 1 km. Wow. If they were that cheap in the west who would want to spend the several hundreds of dollars/euros per month it costs to own a car.
Yeah I would definitely think that better LIDAR would be the answer for the problems with dawn and dusk, but the problems with turning might be trickier. It seems there are so many unpredictable variables at play in every situation, that it’s hard to model for all of them. But even with that, I would assume eventually with enough modeling that problem will be fixed.
Yeah, it would probably reassure some people. I’m sure lots of AI will get anthropomorphised to make it seem cuddly and approachable.
Mmm, not sure how I feel about this. It just seems to add an unnecessary layer where things might go wrong.
So this is a roundabout way of saying the Israelis were about to add famine to their list of war crimes.
Great info. Out of curiosity what does your hosting setup say about visitor numbers? Futurology.today uses Cloudflare. They give a figure of about 10k per day for what they call unique visitors. That seems unduly high when you look at how busy our lemmy instance actually is. We have just short of 1K subscribers, so I would assume visitor numbers would be lower than 10k per day.
Ukraine deserves to be in the EU, but they’ve a long way to go, and its not just the war. They have a vast corruption problem which needs fixing before becoming one with the other EU nations. The EU should start a process that ties progress on that, to getting nearer to EU membership.
Maybe I’m missing something, when I try to interact with Mastodon from futurology.today there’s zero ability to interact. It seems to give the option to send DMs, but when I test it, they never arrive.
The Lemmy dev does not want Mastodon to be integrated into Lemmy.
Something tells me this isn’t the last word on the issue. If the fediverse concept is to succeed, then its two (current) largest players need to have some cross-functionality.
Perhaps the fediverse will get big enough that third-party developers will step in to fix this. Twitter & Reddit both benefitted hugely from the extra functionality third-party developers enhanced both platforms with.
Its anathema to the whole concept of the fediverse that one person - a lemmy dev - gets to decide something so important.
I wonder why Mastodon.world has done so comparatively poorly. I also wonder if Mastodon could be more integrated with Lemmy would that improve things. As awful as twitter is these days, the way it embeds so easily into other content, which lets you click straight to its comments is invaluable. No doubt its on Elon’s list of things to ruin, and he’ll get around to it eventually.
I don’t know that they’ve gone anywhere else, although it did prompt some of us to create a fediverse instance for the subreddit.
I help moderate one of the larger subreddits (r/futurology) & its striking how much the recent issues have demoralized people. We track inactive Mods monthly, where there used to be 5 or so a month, for the last two months its 25 or so, which is the majority of the mods on that subreddit.
I’d love to have more Mastodon stuff in my lemmy feed. Shame its virtually impossible as far as I can see. Do you have any idea when lemmy devs might change this?
incoming reddit users could be a huge benefit (familiarity) And maybe add those options (a. & old.) on the side panel with a link for tutorials how to use Lemmy and its apps
Yes, I’ve been thinking about how to make it as simple as possible to understand for reddit users. Where we explained it here, is an attempt to reduce things to the simplest language - https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/15pbknv/do_you_have_some_time_to_take_a_look_at/
Thank you. This is very helpful. Someone else questioned why we are even using email verification as they said few other instances are using it.
We’d assumed it was important from the perspective of bots, trolling, spam, etc But it seems to be at the root of the problems we’ve been having.
I don’t mean to diminish people’s fears and anxieties because they are extremely real, but I think it’s worth considering other outlooks. For example, look at how quickly the world changed in March 2020 in response to COVID-19. Isn’t there something hopeful about that? Doesn’t it suggest that the world can adapt to sudden change far more quickly than we expected?
Sometimes I wonder if some people are too apocalyptic in their ideas especially if they come from a product in an apocalyptic Christian background. if you look at thousands of years of European history isn’t the lesson to take away that revolution and change happen all the time, but eventually, progress is what people settle into and things work out in the end.
I realize that is the most hopeful interpretation of events, and perhaps too hopeful, but I’m optimistically natured and that’s what I try to stick to.