Sci-fi ideas of robots have been around for ages and work on AI and the term singularity kicked off around 1950, so a while ago - well before chips or me being born.

It sort of explains something that puzzled me which is why people not from London, especially Americans like Trump and Musk seem to think it's a bit of a hell hole with no go areas and the like. As a London resident, it's not really like that. I guess it's down to stuff like in this article.

Playing devil's advocate, if you look at the temperature graphs up to now, ignoring the future projections, the temperature has regularly fluctuated to hotter than we have it now (~2C more) and then fallen back (6 less). There must be some stabilizing factors that cause it to do that. Maybe that'll kick in again?

Sometimes this process involves killing off a good portion of the multicellular life on Earth, but sure, maybe that'll kick in again.

At -4C Boston was under literally 1 mile high of ice compared to the current skyline.

There are probably easier way to threaten countries than lobbing stuff from the moon.

I think the idea is it's better to rely on Phase 3 clinical trials like those done by Moderna in preference to say someone untrained searching X posts in a manner probably not unlike RFK.

It's ok to do the X post thing on a personal level but not really as someone in charge of the health of millions of others.

I was thinking the wobbly Jenga tower thing was unfair. The stack TypeScript runs on is fairly stable and buildable on. LLM output is much more random.

>You won't read/write/think/understand etc...

I can't see it. We have LLMs now and none of that applies to me. I find them quite handy as a sort of enhanced Google search though.

In the UK most traffic enforcement is based on cameras. I guess using film taken by the public rather than a fixed camera is a small change.

Traffic enforcement is minimal. As a cyclist, I can choose any busy city road and go past lots of drivers using their phones whilst stuck in traffic.

Close passes are not something the police look for (excepting a couple of specific operations where they had a cycling officer) so bikecams are the only way to get the police to take any action and that is usually just to send a warning letter.

The enforcement is patchy. There are loads of cameras and they pick up some things like speeding or driving in bus lanes but not others live those you mention. I drive and cycle and driving in central London is an odd experience these days that seems almost stationary - wait at lights for a minute, roll a few yards at 15 mph, wait again.

Most actual cycle deaths seem to be people crushed by lorries when turning at junctions which seems more an engineering issue - the drivers can't see etc. than bad driving.

I think it's both.

The onus is on a driver making a manoeuvre to ensure that it is safe to do so, and turning left shouldn't just be performed blindly if the driver has restricted view around their vehicle. However, there's a lot of poorly designed junctions as well.

I believe that one way to improve the problem of left-turns is to have traffic lights that enable cyclists to go first, or allowing cyclists to treat red lights as "give way" signs or turn-left-on-red.

There's also the question of whether we should allow vehicles to use public roads if they have known "blind spots" that drivers are not able to resolve by moving their heads.

Personally, I'd like to see a far more serious attitude to road/traffic safety. When there's a fatal collision, the junction/road should be closed to motor traffic until the junction can be made safe (e.g. adding a separate cycle lane or amending the traffic lights). However, motornormativity suggests that it'll never happen.

I'm not sure with the trucks. My guess is requiring cameras that provide a view of the problem areas might be the thing, possibly with some AI that detects cyclists and the like. I think a lot have warning signs on now for cyclists. Personally I never stop anywhere near them and treat the red lights as kind of give ways.

I'm not sure the highway code rules are that appropriate for places like central London. I tend to treat the whole place like a pedestrianised area - not worrying too much about road signs but giving way to pedestrians.

I thought the Hinton talking to Jon Stewart interview gives a rough idea how they work. Hinton got Turing and Nobel prizes for inventing some of the stuff https://youtu.be/jrK3PsD3APk?t=255