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If your human bus driver crashes you place all the blame on that guy, fire him and move on with your business. If your AI that is used to drive every vehicle your fleet screws up you're potentially looking at grounding the entire fleet and running an extended PR campaign.

At the very least you'll need to stick a human behind the wheel to take the blame when the technology fails like Tesla does. You can't remove humans from the corporation centered blame shifting society because you remove available scapegoats leaving the company without a blame shield. Perhaps they'll hire third world people for lower wages to remotely watch the AI car feed all day and auto-fire them in the event of a crash.

This is all still a worse deal than Uber hiring humans to do it all, they outsource all of the maintenance and liability onto some rando that they can ban from the app if they get uppity and then take a cut of the profit in exchange for running a data center and some ads.

> Can someone explain to me why, over time, democratic states tend to drift into mass surveillance ?

Democracy, even a flawed democracy leaves the status quo power structure vulnerable to being changed by popular political action. Mass surveillance allows the existing players to identify any nascent political movements that may eventually grow to threaten them and undermine or destroy these movements before they ever become a threat.

I'm not sure they really can leave whenever they want. I think once you're far down the education track you will probably feel like you're trapped into continuing even if you decide you don't want to do it anymore, because the education loans will kill you and you need the big income on the other end to fix this. That probably contributes to the creation of a lot of miserable and crappy doctors.

It is like when you start listing the insane things the CIA actually provably did and still end up looking crazy.

They'll just say it is a bug when it is turned on.

Not to mention all the dark pattern lying nag dialogs that will trick you into turning it on, or just wear you down.

Valve basically tried the later approach with the initial Steam for linux push which included steam machines and the steam controller. It did have some level of initial success but clearly had lost momentum and the developer support it had seemed to fade after a few years. There were quite a few direct ports during that time though. I think they would have preferred that approach but ultimately decided it was a bridge to far.

I honestly think the problem can't really be solved because of the adversarial relationships involved. But if there was more than one search engine with significant marketshare maybe it would be easier to route around the problem.

You can just tax tires. And collecting the tax has the added incentives of being much easier to administer and not privacy invading.

The Delorean was chosen because it's horrendous 0-60 times made the acceleration to 88mph a believably difficult to achieve goal for the protagonist.

Copilot still tells me I've commit a content policy violation of I ask it to generate an image "in Tim Burton's style". Tim Burton has been openly critical of generative AI.

Real great gag from the company that hasn't had a reliable local file search since Windows XP.

Do they not numb you up for this?

> BTW I think I heard about some motherboard which had two AGP slots, but the second one was AGP only physically/electrically, running over a standard PCI bus. But maybe my brain is just making things...

I've not personally ever seen a board with dual AGP slots, but there were a number of AGP and PCI-e supporting oddballs during the transition period. I recall one of the more terrible ones doing something like basically just allowing an AGP card to hang off the PCI bus. There were some AGP/PCIe chipsets that were quite good during this time as well, but many of them seemed to be crappy hacks with performance limitations or compatibility problems.

Also interesting were the graphics cards that used Nvidia's AGP -> PCIe adapter chip which allowed them to keep selling older hardware on newer platforms.

Microsoft once sued a high school kid named Mike Rowe for trademark infringement for having a website mikerowesoft.com so anything is possible.