Nice example of shortsighted planning by Musk.   Now there is solid state LIDAR.
Even too cheap to use stereoscopic cameras.
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From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of glen
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Have you seen Mark Rober's lidar video? 
https://youtu.be/IQJL3htsDyQ?si=55HZk9Wn6MHLclXU


On 3/18/25 2:12 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> All this talk about immigration and displacement of jobs of "native" workers. 
>  It will be nothing compared what happens in a few more generations of AI.  I 
> expect semi-trucks slamming into AI centers in a few years.   Humans are done.
> 
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> From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of glen
> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2025 2:05 PM
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> 
> As a forcing structure, they can re-tune it to a different frequency or mode. 
> But a dominant element of capitalism is to externalize costs (and internalize 
> profits). So as long as there's a cost sink like mother earth, they can 
> maintain the current mode. As that sink clogs and fills, they either need 
> other sinks (Mars!) or they'll have to switch to a mode that involves some 
> reciprocity within the proletariat, pit one against the other in a way that 
> allows them to invisibly harvest the remainder. So while Bob and Alice 
> tit-for-tat each other, the wealthy act like Visa and take a (maybe very 
> small) portion of each transaction.
> 
> They still need a source for new Bobs and Alices, though: Pro-Natalism! And 
> there's still the practical issue of growing them and keeping them alive. But 
> advances in big tech can do that. Soylent, a baby formula for adults ... 
> maybe grow 'em smaller. We don't need the proletariat to be as tall as the 
> bougies. And the only reason they're so fat now is because we haven't gotten 
> the formula for Soylent optimized yet. We'll get there.
> 
> On 3/18/25 1:41 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>> Glen writes:
>>
>> < And the ultra-wealthy *know* this. They spam us with bullshit 
>> (X/Twitter/LLMs), surround our cities with below-cost box stores to 
>> destroy businesses, destroy unions, lobby legislators up and down the 
>> spectrum, etc.
>> They do this because they *know* we're resource poor. And we're 
>> approaching the point where none of us can afford to be courteous ...
>> or at least we don't think we can afford it because our values and 
>> priorities have been so bent by the forcing structure they've trapped 
>> us in. >
>>
>> What's the long-term win for the ultra-wealthy?  If much of the 
>> population can't earn enough money to survive, they won't be very good 
>> consumers.
>>
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