Honestly I haven’t seen a single article written by someone who actually understands the mathematics involved so I call a huge amount of HORSeSHIT on your headline.

Omg, a sustainable, repairable, and open source project costs the same as a closed source, non repairable, locked down option … Those are totally the same thing!

/S

There is an open source project to replace the innards:

https://sett.homes/

No it’s not.

It might be to you, but there are enormous numbers of elderly and disabled people who would benefit from more assistance.

I still wouldn’t trust a robot around them given how inherently dangerous a massive motorized contraption is, but we also shouldn’t be blind to accessibility and utility just because we don’t personally need it.

Honestly, Germany should be thanking this man for pushing their country forward.

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And your point is wrong because you keep boiling it down to simple black and white.

The Nobel prize is not purely political and is not devoid of merit.

The world is not full of binary systems. It’s made of multi variable systems where multiple influences can be true at the same time.

If you want to make a point about why accurately predicting the structure of hundreds of thousands of proteins doesn’t deserve the Nobel in chemistry then I’m all ears. Please tell us all exactly why you think their prize was political and not meritocratic, and why predicting protein structures automatically is not important?

Because if you can’t answer that very specific question, then you weren’t making a point relevant to the conversation, you were making a snide generalization to hear yourself speak.

Thank you for finally spewing out the point you wanted to make from the jump. It’s irrelevant in the context of the original discussion, but you got to hear yourself talk.

Lmao, it’s binary cause you say it’s binary.

Bro grow up. The world is not black and white. Literally not a single award on the planet is meritocratic if you insist on dealing in absolutes. Every award is awarded by some committee and there is some room left for human judgement, which leaves room for human bias, which makes it not perfectly meritocratic.

If you want to go an unhinged rant that no one wants to listen to then email the nobel association directly, don’t waste federated server time.

Lol if you rigidly define things binarily in a way that doesn’t reflect real world systems, then sure they’re binary.

This is false, it’s not a binary system. The prize is both.

Use this thing called empathy and try and imagine how a non-tech nerd thinks. If you lack the capability of empathy, then you’re never going to get a satisfying answer.v

You cant make anyone do anything, you can entice them over.

To do that they need to be simple and easy to use, what you’re describing is already more complicated than downloading signal or WhatsApp, signing up, and starting.

For start, search xmpp on the app store and notice how the first result is a paid app that costs $8 and isn’t clear whether or not it will connect you to your friends.

We’re all just different parts of the universe looking back at itself in different ways.

A lot of us sing like Michael Bolton.

You can’t understand why? Are you incapable of evaluating a user experience?

Because the most useful communication apps are the ones that you can reach people on. XMPP’s lack of user friendly UX or long term support and commitment make it DOA for most normal people, which in turn makes it DOA for everyone who might want to talk to one of those normal people who are turned off by it.

I’d argue, that it sometimes adds complexity to an already fragile system.

You don’t have to argue that, I think thats inarguably true. But more complexity doesn’t inherently mean worse.

Automatic braking and collision avoidance systems in cars add complexity, but they also objectively make cars safer. Same with controls on the steering wheel, they add complexity because you now often have two places for things to be controlled and increasingly have to rely on drive by wire systems, but HOTAS interfaces (Hands On Throttle And Stick) help to keep you focused on the road and make the overall system of driving safer. While semantic modelling and control systems absolutely can make things less safe, if done well they can also actually let a robot or machine act in more human ways (like detecting that they’re injuring someone and stopping for instance).

Direct control over systems without unreliable interfaces, semantic translation layer, computer vision dependancy etc serves the same tasks without additional risks and computational overheads.

But in this case, Waymo is still having to do that. They’re still running their sensor data through incredibly complex machine learning models that are somewhat black boxes and producing semantic understandings of the world around it, and then act on those models of the world. The primary difference with Waymo and Tesla isn’t about complexity or direct control of systems, but that Tesla is relying on camera data which is significantly worse than the human eye / brain, whereas Waymo and everyone else is supplementing their limited camera data with sensors like Lidar and Sonar that can see in ways and situations humans can’t and that lets them compensate.

That and that Waymo is actually a serious engineering company that takes responsibility seriously, takes far fewer risks, and is far more thorough about failure analysis, redundancy, etc.