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setgree commented on Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City   cnbc.com/2025/08/22/waymo... · Posted by u/achristmascarl
limaoscarjuliet · 2 days ago
I paid a ticket for this in NYC.
setgree · 2 days ago
Great! and if enforcement were consistent, rule-breaking behavior would probably decline:

> Quick, clear and consistent also works in controlling crime. It’s not a coincidence that the same approach works for parenting and crime control because the problems are largely the same. Moreover, in both domains quick, clear and consistent punishment need not be severe.

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/09/wh...

setgree commented on Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City   cnbc.com/2025/08/22/waymo... · Posted by u/achristmascarl
jakogut · 2 days ago
People are risking their lives and the lives of others, and a fine is supposed to be the thing that finally gets them to comply?
setgree · 2 days ago
You've got me: I believe that people respond to financial incentives. I don't think this is a radical position.
setgree commented on Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City   cnbc.com/2025/08/22/waymo... · Posted by u/achristmascarl
vinkelhake · 2 days ago
I live in the bay and occasionally ride Waymo in SF and I pretty much always have a good time.

I visited NYC a few weeks ago and was instantly reminded of how much the traffic fucking sucks :) While I was there I actually thought of Waymo and how they'd have to turn up the "aggression" slider up to 11 to get anything done there. I mean, could you imagine the audacity of actually not driving into an intersection when the light is yellow and you know you're going to block the crossing traffic?

setgree · 2 days ago
Semi-related, but just once in my life, I want to hear a mayoral candidate say: “I endorse broken windows theory, but for drivers. You honk when there’s no emergency, block the box, roll through a stop sign — buddy that’s a ticket. Do it enough and we’ll impound your car.”

Who knows, maybe we’ll start taking our cues from our polite new robot driver friends…

setgree commented on The road that killed Legend Jenkins was working as designed   strongtowns.org/journal/2... · Posted by u/h14h
omnicognate · 6 days ago
> raising the sanity waterline

Is a marvellous phrase. Public opinion can be changed, and it's good to see people doing the hard work to bring that about. It often seems these days that the only people willing to put that long-term effort in have the worst goals in mind.

setgree · 5 days ago
setgree commented on The road that killed Legend Jenkins was working as designed   strongtowns.org/journal/2... · Posted by u/h14h
setgree · 6 days ago
Well said. This is a subject where I’ve become radicalized as an adult (veganism is the other). Even Brooklyn, where I live, has a million little choices which prioritize cars over pedestrians, and any effort to reclaim space — maybe the avenues bordering prospect park should not have free parking? — creates huge backlash. Culture problems are hard.
setgree commented on Jeff Bezos doesn't believe in PowerPoint, and his employees agree   texttoslides.ai/blog/amaz... · Posted by u/sh_tomer
malthaus · a month ago
nothing grinds my gears more than "management wisdom" like this and people who then attribute success to small details like that.

amazon could have thrived the same way had they used powerpoint, maybe even more. we will never know. also, different people communicate differently. dictating 6-pagers makes you select for people who prefer that, therefore having less diversity in thinking.

setgree · a month ago
Such advice is mainly useful politically; e.g., suppose you are having a dispute in your company about the overuse of presentations. Point to Jeff Bezos and say: he hates them too! if your adversary is an MBA type, he might find it challenging to respond.
setgree commented on UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US   arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/azalemeth
duxup · a month ago
I really sort of expected that by the time I reached my age that we'd have more policy makers that understood tech a little better. I feel like in the last say 25 or more years ... the needle hasn't moved.
setgree · a month ago
This article is explicitly about how J.D. Vance (age 40) & others at the White House are forcefully advocating for preserving E2E encryption. Arguably not for the right reasons, but still.

I'm not sure what you mean by "more" but what you are asking for is in fact happening.

setgree commented on You can now buy eggs from in-ovo sexed hens   optimistsbarn.substack.co... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo
setgree · a month ago
If you were a chicken behind the veil of ignorance choosing your fate, would you choose immediate death (male) or a short, difficult, confined life (female)?

To many advocates, it’s self-evident that the hen’s life is better than immediate death. This is not obvious to me. It depends on the hen’s quality of life.

setgree commented on New York’s bill banning One-Person Train Operation   etany.org/statements/impe... · Posted by u/Ericson2314
jksflkjl3jk3 · a month ago
Trains are the easiest form of transportation for full automation. There shouldn't need to be any required staff on board.
setgree · a month ago
On the Ethan Allen Express (Amtrak) I took this week, the boarding steps to the cars had to be manually deployed by train staff, along with a little step stool. When I got on, there were two people doing this, so only two train cars were boardable.

I think non-Americans underestimate our ability to not automate things that can clearly be automated through some combination of of inertia, union power, and sheer incompetence.

setgree commented on ChatGPT's enterprise success against Copilot fuels OpenAI/Microsoft rivalry   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/mastermaq
pseudosavant · 2 months ago
I use many LLM tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, GitHub Copilot, etc), I have never ever gotten any version of MS Copilot to do anything useful for me. I've been stunned at how they can use the same models that ChatGPT does, copy their use cases, and still deliver a turd.

The Github Copilot (in VS Code especially) is the only application of LLMs that I've found useful from Microsoft. I would have loved amazing Copilot support in Word for working on a large complex document, but I haven't found that to work well.

setgree · 2 months ago
YMMV, but I found it useful for drafting a pull request on GitHub, where it basically just did all the boring work, including finding the particular line in a large codebase that was throwing the error. It wasn't a hard problem, but it still would have required a bit of mental effort on my part, and I'd rather spend that reading a book.

u/setgree

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