The Abject Failure of Self Driving Cars

In 2014 Elon Musk said self driving cares would be available in five to six years, that was ten years ago. In 2016 Musk announced that all Teslas built and 2016 and after had the hardware necessary for fully autonomous driving, eight years ago. In 2018 Musk said that self driving technology would be wide...

Capitalism’s Fatal Flaw

Capitalism is about the movement of capital, labor, goods, services, and money from person to business, business to person, business to business, and person to person. The employee has capital in the form of labor, businesses buy that capital and use it to make goods, another form of capital. Businesses sell their capital to people,...

“AI” is Already Failing

At the risk of giving techno fetishists a "told ya so!" I'm going to call it: The algorithms falsely advertised as "AIs" are already failing. I've already pointed how unimpressive "AI art" is, I've put the hype for "AI" in perspective of past tech failures, and I've pointed out how it is doomed. The doom...

100 Hour Games are 90 Hours too Long

I like games, I play games. In the past few years I've had little time to play games. Between work, other hobbies, and going back to school I've had little time to play. Now I'm between jobs, and between semesters (I was paying for collage myself so loosing my job meant I couldn't pay the...

What if Your Values Are Evil?

You hear some people talking about values, you hear it in the terms "value voter," and "traditional values". What these people never ask is "what if my values are wrong". So many never questions whether their values are good, bad, or evil. People just accept the values they were raised or indoctrinated into with out...

Putting AI Hype into Perspective

The hype around "AI" is still high despite the reality of it, so much so that Microsoft seems to be betting Windows 12 on AI. I'm largely immune to hype, I'm middle aged now, and have been interested in technology. I remember a lot technologies that had been the "next big thing" only to fail...

The Importance of Failure

There is a saying, "you have to fail 99 times to succeed once," however it should be: you need to fail 99 time to truly succeed. This is because those who don't fail, or those who are in denial of their failures can never learn how to deal with failure, how to learn from failure,...

Age Kills Wisdom

“Age brings wisdom”, as the old saying says, another old saying is “fools think they are wise”. When the argument of "age brings wisdom" is made by older people, it can only be seen as claiming to have wisdom, but if the other saying is true then that claim of wisdom is a fool's claim....

The Best Argument for Universal Basic Income is Capitalism.

A universal basic income (UBI) is a program in which every citizen of a country, or even every documented person in the country, receives a monthly income from the government. This income is given regardless of income and job status. For example: each person receives $1000 dollars a month to all people over 18-years-old. This...

Markets are not self correcting or self sustaining.

Imagine a bipolar person, sometimes they are nice, good, helpful, and productive, other times they drink like a fish, do every drug available, fights everyone around them, and repeatedly attempted to kill themselves. It seems like a person like that would not survive long, but they're not a normal human, they are like a deity...