SwingingTheLamp

You’re going to have to define AI in order to have a worthwhile discussion. The term can mean anything from computer-vision analysis of medical images (which is saving lives) to a collective term for the historic-scale grift by superwealthy which is going to tear up the economy when the bubble bursts (the effects of which will probably kill people).

Which “AI” do you mean?

That suggests a lack of correlation between those two qualities.

Understood! I’m just thinking about my own life, where I feel like I’ve noticed an inverse correlation between conscientiousness and sexual attractiveness in the men that I know.

I have a built-in hand soap pump in the kitchen, and a big bottle in the bathroom. Plus, separate refill bottles for each. No one wants to come over to my house. With the popularity of the bad-boy archetype, I have to wonder if there’s some sort of correlation?

Not any one site, but a class of pages you might call the “tilde sites.” That is, personal sites served from the user’s home directory on a multiuser host. Like: http://cs.example.edu/~user/

Cola generally has less sugar than lemonade. (And orange juice, for that matter.)

UAV meaning Unmanned Autonomous Vehicle. (In contrast to rideshare services, like Uber. When they were heavily subsidized, it must be noted, they increased traffic congestion.) Availability of them will increase. The reason that we have an auto-dominated landscape today is that car makers wanted to sell more cars. There’s approximately 0% chance that car makers today will be satisfied selling a limited number of vehicles for ride services, when they could sell vastly more cars to individuals.

Is that realistic, though? A car is already a status toy, what’s to stop conspicuous consumption in the form of buying one’s own self-driving car? Or, say, moving to a cheaper house further from the city, because commute time can now be used as work time? Shared cars won’t work in that scenario.

Also, rush hour is still a thing. There have to be enough UAVs to handle peak demand, and then most of them will be parked somewhere, idle most of the time. Or running errands. Traffic congestion is bad enough now, with average vehicle occupancy of 1.2 people; it’ll be apocalyptic when that number drops below one.

Also, in cities with sky-high housing costs, i guarantee that people will live in self-driving RVs, because road space is “free.”

In short, the only way to realize the benefits of the shared UAV future is to ban private car ownership, and cap the number of UAVs in a city. That sounds a lot like a train, except trains’ enormous capacity offers better service.

Especially cars.

I’m always ready to plug Bojack Horseman. Yes, it’s an animated show about an anthropomorphic horse, with tons of silly, animal puns and visual gags, and cartoon-ish storylines, and it will sometimes just rip you open emotionally. Will Arnett is a phenomenally gifted voice actor. And despite this, one of the best episodes of television I’ve ever seen is one in which he has barely any lines.

The usual advice, of course, is that it takes until the middle of the first season to get really good. (The first few episodes aren’t bad, they’re just light comedy.)

Wait just a minute! You’re comparing sugary spreads to our peanut butter? Imma remember this next time somebody from Europe gives us shit about sugar in our sandwich bread.

On the contrary, everybody hates cars. I’ve never met a driver who doesn’t hate cars. Fuckcars is just the concentrated form.