It would alleviate the need to precisely back your hitch under the trailer’s tongue. And it will kill 900 people in its first year on sale when driven through places of high 2.4GHz congestion. Like school zones and neighborhoods.
Cathode Ray Dude goes on this rant about PCs and to an extent all technology. He says that tech as a phenomenon is largely a 20th century phenomenon and is generally over now, that the things that can be invented have been invented, that we’ll never see another Walkman, a device that changes what is possible so radically that stores can’t keep them on the shelves.
We perfected the form factor of the automobile in the 1950’s, and since then everything has been updates to styling, infotainment, powerplant efficiency and reliability, performance and safety. A 1950 Chevy Impala did everything anyone needed a car to do, we’ve since added seat belts, CD players and antilock brakes.
There’s nothing for Toyota to do. They make legendarily reliable cars; the reason you buy a new Toyota is because a drunk driver totaled your old one. Basically every luxury feature comes as standard on all models now. What’s the point of a Mercedes S class when you could have a Toyota Camry for a third the price that will ever work again if you miss an oil change by 3,000 miles or so?
There is no point to executives. Executives serve no function now that every product decision has been made. For the last 15 years, the only decisions executives have been making is how to make the product more profitable for the shareholders. The customer does not matter at all, because the customer can be forced to buy the product no matter what. All car manufacturers are making headlights a subscription service, the only cars that don’t have that are used, they’re aging and depleting. So we have arrived into a future where we don’t say “I wish my car had this futuristic feature” or “I wish my car had the feature that’s on this luxury model” or “check out the new feature on my car,” we’re now saying “I wish my new car had the features my old one had.”
But executives need their bonuses. They need to go to trade shows with features they oversaw the development of, so that they can impress older executives into giving them louder titles and bigger offices. So we get shit like this. Towing a trailer is a completely solved problem, we have robust industries dedicated to hitches, brake controllers, lights, security etc. Masterlock even makes lock-shaped objects specifically for looking like you’ve secured the tongue to the ball. But for reasons that are beyond my understanding we haven’t beaten the entire executive class to death with hammers yet, so these problems continue to be re-invented to be partially solved anew, hence: the wireless trailer hitch.
This description of modern technology and innovation perfectly aligns with Karl Marx’s theories on the stages of capitalism too. Hopefully we can see a full collapse before
A 1950 Chevy Impala did everything anyone needed a car to do, we’ve since added seat belts, CD players and antilock brakes.
Fire up any decent racing simulator that has 50s cars and try driving them, to disabuse yourself of the ridiculous notion that they were anything like modern cars. And then try proper track cars to see if your plebmobile can remotely compare in handling.
He says that tech as a phenomenon is largely a 20th century phenomenon and is generally over now, that the things that can be invented have been invented, that we’ll never see another Walkman, a device that changes what is possible so radically that stores can’t keep them on the shelves.
That’s difficult to square with diffusion and transformers. There’s no gizmo for video generation, but we nonetheless went from “ha ha avocado chair thumbnail” to real-time high-def photo-real CGI-for-dummies in five years. And dumb as LLMs are, they demonstrably perform some worthwhile labor. These are just two uses of backpropagation becoming practical thanks to one expert testing an alternative function on a whim, and raytracing dorks making video cards run serious programs.
Any problem with examples can now be trained on a supercomputer and run on a potato. Human comprehension is not a necessary component. This is a whole new kind of software, currently caught between blatant grifters and identarian haters. Shit’s gonna get weird.
It would alleviate the need to precisely back your hitch under the trailer’s tongue. And it will kill 900 people in its first year on sale when driven through places of high 2.4GHz congestion. Like school zones and neighborhoods.
Cathode Ray Dude goes on this rant about PCs and to an extent all technology. He says that tech as a phenomenon is largely a 20th century phenomenon and is generally over now, that the things that can be invented have been invented, that we’ll never see another Walkman, a device that changes what is possible so radically that stores can’t keep them on the shelves.
We perfected the form factor of the automobile in the 1950’s, and since then everything has been updates to styling, infotainment, powerplant efficiency and reliability, performance and safety. A 1950 Chevy Impala did everything anyone needed a car to do, we’ve since added seat belts, CD players and antilock brakes.
There’s nothing for Toyota to do. They make legendarily reliable cars; the reason you buy a new Toyota is because a drunk driver totaled your old one. Basically every luxury feature comes as standard on all models now. What’s the point of a Mercedes S class when you could have a Toyota Camry for a third the price that will ever work again if you miss an oil change by 3,000 miles or so?
There is no point to executives. Executives serve no function now that every product decision has been made. For the last 15 years, the only decisions executives have been making is how to make the product more profitable for the shareholders. The customer does not matter at all, because the customer can be forced to buy the product no matter what. All car manufacturers are making headlights a subscription service, the only cars that don’t have that are used, they’re aging and depleting. So we have arrived into a future where we don’t say “I wish my car had this futuristic feature” or “I wish my car had the feature that’s on this luxury model” or “check out the new feature on my car,” we’re now saying “I wish my new car had the features my old one had.”
But executives need their bonuses. They need to go to trade shows with features they oversaw the development of, so that they can impress older executives into giving them louder titles and bigger offices. So we get shit like this. Towing a trailer is a completely solved problem, we have robust industries dedicated to hitches, brake controllers, lights, security etc. Masterlock even makes lock-shaped objects specifically for looking like you’ve secured the tongue to the ball. But for reasons that are beyond my understanding we haven’t beaten the entire executive class to death with hammers yet, so these problems continue to be re-invented to be partially solved anew, hence: the wireless trailer hitch.
This description of modern technology and innovation perfectly aligns with Karl Marx’s theories on the stages of capitalism too. Hopefully we can see a full collapse before
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Fire up any decent racing simulator that has 50s cars and try driving them, to disabuse yourself of the ridiculous notion that they were anything like modern cars. And then try proper track cars to see if your plebmobile can remotely compare in handling.
That’s difficult to square with diffusion and transformers. There’s no gizmo for video generation, but we nonetheless went from “ha ha avocado chair thumbnail” to real-time high-def photo-real CGI-for-dummies in five years. And dumb as LLMs are, they demonstrably perform some worthwhile labor. These are just two uses of backpropagation becoming practical thanks to one expert testing an alternative function on a whim, and raytracing dorks making video cards run serious programs.
Any problem with examples can now be trained on a supercomputer and run on a potato. Human comprehension is not a necessary component. This is a whole new kind of software, currently caught between blatant grifters and identarian haters. Shit’s gonna get weird.
Actually it might entirely explain the AI bubble. Putting AI into things is the only move executives can do.
Shoving AI into everything is proving the uselessness of executives nicely.