Silicon Valley Techno-Utopianism

unless the car is drunk

That's at least one Herbie film, right?

Seen so many techno-utopians on reddit and elsewhere screaming that it's the driver's fault for not taking over the autopilot when they saw the truck turning, not the software's fault. a) if you are not already driving the car, your reaction time is gonna be a lot slower, and b) if the autopilot works correctly for the first two months you have a car, of course you're gonna assume it works correctly all the time. people compare it to cruise control, but cruise control is waaaay more predictable. I don't even understand why people think an autopilot you have to monitor vigilantly is even a good idea

I don't even understand why people think an autopilot you have to monitor vigilantly is even a good idea.

Bingo! We have a winner!

This is not exactly a situation like airliners, where the human pilots are highly trained, highly paid professionals, with the built-in redundancy of a co-pilot who can take over for the main pilot at any moment. Plus there aren't many other objects to hit at 30,000 feet. In that situation an autopilot is just a tool for use by professionals. Ordinary cars and their drivers do not meet any of these qualifications.

even w airline pilots in the autopilot era you get things like air france 447, where the autopilot fails and at least one of the pilots hasn't actually played microsoft flight simulator enough (and/or is sufficiently panicked+confused) to know you nose down in a stall

monitoring an autopilot vigilantly sounds like it would take more mental effort than driving

i agree that an autopilot you have to monitor in a quick response situation like driving seems lethal, but 1 death in, what, a year?, seems like it's less lethal than letting the human drive.

1 death in, what, a year?

tbf, human-piloted cars were driven a few more miles and hours last year than the self-driving ones

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/01/tesla-driver-killed-autopilot-self-driving-car-harry-potter

Tesla driver killed while using autopilot was watching Harry Potter, witness says

Inattentius collisio!

one third of automobile deaths result from drunk driving and more than half involve no seatbelt, so musk's comparison needs to be taken with a massive grain of salt. So far it is certainly not apparent that self driving cars are as safe as human-driven by non drunks where you are wearing a restraint.

Ouch from NYT: “[Joshua Brown] had said, ‘For something to catch Elon Musk’s eye, I can die and go to heaven now,’” said a neighbor, Krista Kitchen, choking up. “He was absolutely thrilled – and then a couple weeks later he died.”

If this was a subplot on Silicon Valley we would be laughing

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmXghC9WAAAfbrU.jpg

http://toyworth.com/browse/Knight/2000/Crash/Set/action/figure//1983//Knight/Rider/Accessories/100/lrg-packaged-front.jpg

Rex: I was still young enough that I wanted to have a, like, a party hangout kind of life, and Seattle…seemed interesting at the time, but man, I just kept meeting people that — I always say it’s a city that has product managers who want to be vice presidents.

Paul: Ooof.

Rex: Like it’s a lot of, just…

Rich: Wow.

Paul: [wounded noise]

Rex: A lot of Amazon people…

Rich: That’s a rough tagline for Seattle tourism right there.

they're easy to spot and avoid tho

caek, what is that from

sorry https://trackchanges.postlight.com/podcast-20-rex-sorgatz-the-other-side-of-fate-2151da51f998#.ivs4e4udy

hey I know that Paul Ford guy, was at his wedding and everything

what?!

I'm surprised at the connection, but mostly surprised you aren't commenting on a thread about his wedding saying that you didn't go but heard it was a bad ceremony

he married the woman who officiated my own wedding. we aren't best buds or anything, but his wife is an old college friend of mine

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnCBn18VMAAfqhw.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ZeqyR0o.jpg

Benioff is one of the least terrible though

Like, he actually uses some of his money & influence on actual progressive political causes in the real world, he's not trying to invent Utopia in a west coast bunker and export it to the rest of us dummies

Yeah he's ok w me

Tweet was inappropriate but its undeniable social media has been crucial un bringing this issue wide attention

he is sorry

Source?

Sorry. Im sorry. Im trying to remove it

yeah idk look at LBI's image

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnXjMNOUsAAztY1.jpg:small

idk what 'expensify' is but they do realize the Lord of the Flies was a rotting pig's head on a stick, right?

oddly enough, so is the ceo of expensify

should we have a thread for Sourpuss Valley techno-dystopianism?

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/07/pokemon-go-invasion-oliver-stone-snowden-surveillance/

It manipulates your behaviour. It has happened already quite a bit on the Internet, but you’ll see it everywhere—you'll see a new form of, frankly, a robot society, where they will know how you want to behave and they will make the mockup that matches how you behave and feed you. It’s what they call totalitarianism.

lol the promos for that oliver stone snowden film look horrible

I enjoy the work of Joseph Gordon-Levitt but hearing him do that monotone "I do very important work" voice made me shake my head

Seems relevant, in terms of mocking SV shit:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/magazine/the-oppressive-gospel-of-minimalism.html

the author retweeted this which is definitely an early stage homeware startup look right now

https://twitter.com/333333333433333/status/759038739951788032

I think that's the shade of pink that BUTT uses

He now carries nothing but a bag of clothes and a backpack containing a computer, an iPad and a smartphone. “I have zero other possessions,” he writes

Other than clothing and all of the world's knowledge, information, communications channels and entertainment at my fingertips, I have no possessions.

that's all I took on vacation and while I was surviving, I really missed my shit

scratch that, I just had the iPad and phone in one bag and clothes in another. even then, I kept accumulating magazines and books and more shit. I am an expert shit-acquirer

all of the world's knowledge, information, communications channels and entertainment

vast amounts of this are not on the internet but sure

no, it's all there. you just haven't found it yet.

so how about that Peter Thiel, living off the blood of youth? what a guy

“I don’t hold onto all the things society tells me to hold onto.”

deal_with_it.gif

"i want to live on a barge in the ocean, with other libertarians."
"huh ok."
"forever. i need blood."

wait was is this blood thing about