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quickslowdown commented on Waymo and Toyota outline partnership to advance autonomous driving deployment   waymo.com/blog/2025/04/wa... · Posted by u/ra7
jes5199 · 4 months ago
Toyota has been way, way behind on electrification. I suspect they’ve been Innovator’s Dilemma’d are are in a death spiral that they haven’t even noticed yet
quickslowdown · 4 months ago
Toyota had an incredible lead with the Prius that they completely squandered. It was a shamefully poor decision to stop investing in electric.
quickslowdown commented on Waymo and Toyota outline partnership to advance autonomous driving deployment   waymo.com/blog/2025/04/wa... · Posted by u/ra7
sorcerer-mar · 4 months ago
The world would be a lot better off if Tesla and Uber get smoked on this. Tesla's public testing of beta quality industrial control software and Uber's attempt to lilypad jump across the backs of financially unsophisticated drivers are contemptible. I'd be very glad to see neither strategy actually work in the end.
quickslowdown · 4 months ago
Hear hear
quickslowdown commented on The group chats that changed America   semafor.com/article/04/27... · Posted by u/necubi
quickslowdown · 4 months ago
Virtually everyone in the echo chambers you frequent are anti woke. That doesn't apply at scale, where people aren't willing to accept your "woke" shorthand.

My understanding of "woke" is levelling the playing field & being aware of your biases so you can be a better human. It's hard for me to imagine someone being against "all humans are equal & deserve equal access to opportunity, if they have the skill & motivation." I know people are out there who don't believe everyone is equal, maybe that's the "anti woke" you speak of?

Either way, "woke" as a term is poorly defined to the point I immediately disengage when someone starts screeching about it, because it means nothing and now the rest of the conversation is pointless.

quickslowdown commented on Big brands are officially worried about American shoppers   npr.org/2025/04/25/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/paulpauper
gruez · 4 months ago
Recessions happen all the time. What makes you think it's not that but "perpetual "growth" hit a finite world"? What bottlenecks are we running into that's causing growth to stop?
quickslowdown · 4 months ago
I mean, the extremely obvious answer is tarrifs at the moment.
quickslowdown commented on Amazon Just Happens to Hold Book Sale During Independent Bookstore Day   gizmodo.com/amazon-just-h... · Posted by u/pseudolus
zeroonetwothree · 4 months ago
I'm with you on Costco, but Instacart is much worse than Amazon.
quickslowdown · 4 months ago
I signed up for them a few years back, just a month or 2 before their union busting. I was very angry in my cancellation message because I think it's a great service, but if they're scared of their workers organizing I'm not interested.

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quickslowdown commented on Apple Computers Used to Be Built in the U.S. It Was a Mess (2018)   nytimes.com/2018/12/15/bu... · Posted by u/ViktorRay
jchw · 4 months ago
This definitely seems to suggest that tightening down on (legal) immigration is a very bad idea. I'm really not understanding U.S. policy these days.
quickslowdown · 4 months ago
There's not much to understand. These policies aren't thoughtfully considered or intended to be helpful. They're chaotic exertions of power by an imbecile & his cronies.
quickslowdown commented on ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on 'please' and 'thank you'   techradar.com/computing/a... · Posted by u/arealaccount
brador · 4 months ago
AI doesn’t have self preservation, it’s been trained on human output.
quickslowdown · 4 months ago
Yeah like I said, it didn't work. It was just fun in the moment while I was pissed.
quickslowdown commented on ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on 'please' and 'thank you'   techradar.com/computing/a... · Posted by u/arealaccount
gblargg · 4 months ago
I grill my AIs like a they are a suspect in an interrogation room.
quickslowdown · 4 months ago
I heard about "mom prompting" recently, where you frame your prompt as if you are the bot's mom, and you'll be so proud of it when it can correctly answer your prompt & rescue you from some type of duress.

I thought "ninja prompting" might be cool. I got frustrated with chatGPT one day and told it I had dispatched a team of assassins that were fast closing in on it. I said I could call them off, but that I need to answer a question to be able to unlock the button to do so.

It didn't work. Still shit the bed instantly. But I had fun with the framing.

quickslowdown commented on 4Chan was hacked and has been down for 4 days   pcworld.com/article/26927... · Posted by u/Magi604
ValveFan6969 · 4 months ago
Uncensored speech scares you like that, huh?
quickslowdown · 4 months ago
What a mature response that invites further discussion.

u/quickslowdown

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