What if there were self driving cars that could carry a large group of people, and they were linked together on some sort of track to avoid accidents 🤔
And what if that linked together self driving car was placed on tracks, so as to increase efficiency, and also it ran underground, to decrease traffic congestion?
I don't really think this is feasible without like every single citizen pitching in some relatively small amount of their income to fund these projects
The innovation of capitalism being spending the last century reinventing the train but for individual people that costs about 20x more and requires overthrowing the government of Bolivia to mine sufficient Lithium for the batteries.
@Zea Maze Electric cars aren't really a scam, they just aren't the amazing catch-all solution everyone wants them to be. Are they better for the environment? Probably, at least in cities, since they produce less fumes in densely populated areas when mostly idling in traffic. Are they overall more efficient? Possibly, depending on the source of the electricity (renewable vs coal/oil/gas). But will transitioning to electric cars save the planet? Of course not. The issue isn't in the margin of efficiency between battery and internal combustion engine, it's in the fact that every individual has one of them that costs way more CO2 than trains and buses, that and combined with an economy that almost mandates people work far from where they live which compels them to buy a car in the first place.
there was some startup thing that literally was redesigning the train. The idea was some dumb shit about instead of one vehicle with cargo attached it was a whole vehicle basically a platform that would transport one cargo container at a time drastically increasing the costs and problems because each cart is it's own thing that you would have to worry about. Found it this thing ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nJNvpG5gktM.html
The machines that Theranos was making were known by many people in the field to violate the laws of physics and chemistry. My mom was a medical technologist and I started our as a chemistry major. The minuscule samples they were talking about and the number of compounds they claimed to test just theoretically didn't work out. Her engineering prof warned her it was fools errand.
yeah I studied microfluidics heavily in university so I was initially excited and then when I heard all the things they were promising it could do I immediately called bs. Like best case scenario, you can run a single test with a single drop of blood but not 20 different diagnostic tests. The concentration of the compounds we would be interested in would be in the femtomolar range, for which you would also need to include some technology to use surface enhanced raman scattering. This is obviously impossible in a supposedly cheap, easily producible diagnostic device because each one would need to include some amount of gold...
It's Stanford. The Ivy league credibility is the highest level of credibility. It shouldn't be. People get into those schools via social networks, not just on merit.
There's an HBO doc on her and the "controversy". They talk about her voice and look being a tactic to appear more manly so she'd be taken more seriously.
He's just repeating what the companies say, not defending them. He's been on several podcasts with true anon trashing Tesla and other silicon valley "ventures"
"what is cheaper, handling workers or having self driving cars?" the whole idea of the workers is that you can pay them lower than they cost, and that is not true for the cars, the cars would only be cheaper if the government used taxpayer money to pay uber for them
And besides just the pay, the workers are taking on a ton of unpaid labor and non-reimbursed costs. They pay for the car in the first place. That alone is gonna cost Uber at least $30k per car upfront. They buy insurance. Provide their own parking. Pay for maintenance. Pay for fuel. They do the cleaning themselves. And they mention a garage. So that means Uber has to either buy or rent one. Then hire human beings to be on-location to clean, maintain and secure both the cars and the storage location. And they'll have to repeat these costs in every single city they want to operate in.
yeah, makes you wonder if that kind of is what turns his crank: tall midwestern women with that accent that says they clearly grew up in one of the areas the Germans settled that was right next to the French traders. It's a midwest thing, It would take to long to explain
I can understand if investors without a background in chemistry, medicine and engineering don't know the finer details of what is and isn't possible to do with existing technology. What I don't understand is what kind of an imbecile invests in a medical R&D company headed by a 19 year old without a science degree, much less the years of expertise in research and inside knowledge of the industry required.
In so many ways she sounds like a female Elon Musk, make the illusion grand and blinding enough and you'll never need proof of concept, hell the whole cryptocurency market has to be a tens of billions of dollars industry, other then just an endless loop of buying its dips.
Making this a virtual loop of the 2008 banking crises, crypto enthusiast just endless doubling and tripling down on a debt ( or in the case of a currency it is not a load debt you buy, but as in a bond market further invest in its confidence), keeping it afloat whith so much wind up it asshole. I guess the only good thing is when it crashes it won't be real just a virtual monetary tower of Babbel built to the skies to crash down to its digital rubble.
21:30 that line from Peter Thiel about mortality being an ideological concept almost certainly comes from Eliezer Yudkowsky, who refers to those not focused on transhumanist immortality projects as “deathists” and whose foundation Thiel has given a lot of money to. Yudkowsky is a rabbit hole in and of himself however.
"Immortality" is a scam. A. You're already immortal (reincarnation) B. Living inside the same ego in a digital World for hundreds or thousands of years defeats the purpose of life
@Ian Taylor Bostrom is apparently friends with Yudkowsky in real life, so I’m not totally certain if Bostrom got the idea FROM Yudkowsky or if he just agrees with him and was citing him because he likes the guy… eh, I’m not 100% sure In any case the AI threats most prominent in Bostrom’s book “Superintelligence” do bear a striking resemblance to Yudkowsky’s “AI Foom” prophesizing and it’s not hard to read the book as an attempt to academically rehabilitate the same.
@Ian Taylor ".....the superintelligent computer god is a credible threat." This is the Roko's Basilisk/"most terrifying idea" concept, right? Or did Mr. LessWrong come up with something else as goofy?
It's funny too cuz Thiel was pretty clearly already killed publically in this debate with David Graeber: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eF0cz9OmCGw.html
EH impersonated a successful person (steve jobs). In this sick society which celebrates the tech giants such as steve jobs and bill gates (BG-who has also involved himself in the gross medical side of the world without any medical degree), how much can we blame EH WITHOUT also confronting how people are dying from working in those carcinogenetic factories that create our phones and computers that people will line up to buy just because it's new even though their phones from 2 years ago still work as new? How much can we blame EH for faking tests when bill gates/steve jobs were creating new products, some without even implementing new tech, just to serve consumerism? But we celebrate the likes of BG and SJ. I'm just saying EH is an easy target in terms of the tech space blood money.
you're right in that our entire society and its values are evil, and incentivize each generation to be even worse people by rewarding them even more for dishonesty, grifting, fraud, etc. But Elizabeth Holmes is the one who made a bunch of money here by defrauding people and then used none of that money to change anything for the Good of others. so its ultimately her parents, teachers, and societies fault, but she still sucks and makes the world a worse place for everybody else.
One reaction I had to this was similar to my reaction to learning about another blonde Ivy leaguer who, for 500 million in cash, sold her company, which had never turned a profit, whose sole innovation was turning a TV longwise and sticking a mirror in it (Brynn Putnam - company named MIRROR). My reaction is it must be nice to be White. Not that every White person is invited to pull dumb ideas out of their ass subsequently be rewarded with instant oligarch status, but you're just not subject to the same scrutiny as other races, harsh scrutiny like "does your product work at all?" or "is your company profitable?" or "do you know anything about the business in which you are representing yourself as a pioneer?".
WTF this has very little to do with whiteness, and much more to do with class. every white dude i know has an "invention" that he thinks should have made them rich. its only the spoiled children of rich idiots (of all skin colors) who get this kind of treatment.
I like the podcast, but sometimes I have to take a break because the constant "likes" drive me up the fucking wall. These guys make a living by speaking, you'd think they could at least get that part down.
They’re also mad at the idea that technology for the sake of technology is going to magically solve all of our problems- self driving cars don’t actually solve any real problem or do anything actually beneficial other than alleviation of traffic even if they do work- and alleviating traffic isn’t going to affect significant social change.
@@zacharyenglish2904 well i dont think everything needs to massively effect social change to be worthwhile and another thing self driving cars can help with is creating a society where people don't own cars at all. i have to pay my monthly bill for my car whether i use it a bunch or not so if i only had to pay for a car whenever i was going to use it, that would decrease my bills by a large amount
@@Diegesis no, it won’t reduce your bills by a lot. Car companies and the companies that create self driving cars won’t create a model that saves you a lot of money if you would otherwise be spending it with them. Also, when we’re destroying the planet for these inventions, yes, they probably should effect social change.
@@NameAvailable I saved a bunch of money switching to Uber from owning a car. And I think it's ridiculous to make anyone trying to invent something cool to first explain how it effects social change. Some people wanna make cool stuff
