Love this. It ignores a couple of facts about ICE cars for the sake of simplicity and fun, but it feels like a pretty realistic experience one might have in, say, 20 years from now.

https://geoff.greer.fm/2023/02/08/gasoline-car-review/

The snake oil salesman spruiking technology that didn’t exist and led to the death of someone.
I worked for a conman once, most charming, friendly bloke I have ever met, who wrapped you in his dreams and was going to give you the world. I was lucky in the end to only lose my families savings and that was to pay for legal fees to extricate me from his web of lies.
People like him, Musk, Trump, Putin, Netanyahu, Boris, Scomo don’t care who they hurt as long as they are “winning”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/17/tesla-self-driving-video-staged-testimony-senior-engineer?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Just tried ChatGPT. I asked it a series of specific Qs about areas I've studied in detail.

On all Qs, it gave answers that are plausible sounding but wrong. Not obviously wrong: wrong in subtle ways that need deep domain knowledge to grasp.

The ways humans will be practically misled by this kind of tech if trusted with, say, doling out medical, legal or business advice is horrific.

Letting this tech loose on the world will further destroy search engines that are already riddled with SEO BS.

Now seems like a good time to talk about how far-right extremists are using the Overton Window theory to force their ideas into the mainstream. The premise here is that today’s fringe ideas/beliefs can become tomorrow’s normal by shifting the boundaries of acceptable discourse. You do that by introducing people to more & more extreme ideas, so everything else seems reasonable in comparison.

eg, when “praising Hitler” becomes the comparison point, low-key bigotry suddenly doesn’t seem so bad. 1/