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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I understand that joking is the only thing we believe we have left, when we face so much cruelty. I don’t blame you, I feel powerless to change anything and I often use the same defense mechanism. It feels good, it lets me feel I still have the ethical and intellectual superiority.

    But I tend to think that this kind of news should be treated with more gravitas, due to the respect we should have for an absolutely innocent victim and their family, who must know one of the worst trauma that can be inflicted to a person.

    I wish we could turn that into a more constructive anger.

    I supremely hate harm made to children, it makes me despair of humanity. I hate the people who did this and I hope this nightmare will end soon. I hope the little things we do daily will help improve the situation, though I’m not naive. What a shit world.


  • I used to be on the engineering team that worked on the development of a similar camera. For what it’s worth, at the time: there was no AI involved, we only used good old image processing algorithms. And the camera (all cameras, lidars, or radars on the car BTW) does not record anything. It treats images as they come. There’s almost no storage space on the car for all the image data generated.

    All this might have changed since then (especially the AI part) but I’m still relatively confident that car systems don’t have the storage for all this data.

    Additionally, since this is a European brand, I think it would be quite difficult to legally retain personal information like that. It was already difficult during the development phase.

    I’m not saying they wouldn’t be above ominous shenanigans, but it would be difficult.
















  • While Nim was in New York, Terrace believed he was learning sign language. But in reviewing the data, Terrace came to a conclusion that surprised almost everyone involved: Nim, he said, was not using language at all. Terrace said that he changed his mind when watching videotapes of Nim (in his classroom). Language requires the use of sentences, and Nim didn’t use sentences. Though Nim recognized and used signs, Terrace said he did not initiate conversation. When Nim combined signs, they tended to be highly repetitive and filled with “wild cards”—words like ME, HUG, NIM, and MORE. For example, Nim’s longest utterance, 16 signs, was: “Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you.” The videotapes, Terrace argued, proved that Nim mimicked his teachers and used signs strictly to get a reward, not unlike a dog or horse.