[FRIAM] OpenAI and the fight between Elon and Sam

[steve smith]

> Steve,
>
> I really like your reply. There’s a lot I could comment on and maybe 
> add a different perspective—not as a competing argument, but just 
> another view. But for now, I’ll focus on this part:
>
> */_It seems possible, for example, that Tesla's dominance in the EV 
> market is past..._/*
>
> I wouldn’t be so sure.

I'm definitely not "sure", just noting that things have their eras and 
timings.   Many very innovative and (for a moment) powerful vehicle 
manufacturers have come and gone for many reasons.  I don't know how 
much of the Tesla innovations can be reverse-engineered or mimicked 
and/or leap-frogged.   Or made completely obselete the way the Steam 
Autos of the turn of 1900 were in spite of amazing multiple innovations 
to make them possible/viable).

Private automobiles (and maybe even rideshare/robotaxi) may be on their 
last decade or so anyway (see PubCrawl thread with Glen).

Or maybe everyone Jacked on Synthetic Testosterone will flee to Mars and 
leave this lousy Blue Green Ball of Dirt for us dirty hippies to wallow 
on while they all become hyperCyborgs and we wait for Ma Nature to clean 
up our messes?

Contrary to this:  I just had my second hip replaced and have a brand 
new  (Hypershell via Kickstarter <https://hypershell.tech/en-us>) 
lower-body exoskeleton I hope to be sporting for recovery-enhancement 
soon). I'm waiting for XR/AR glasses to jump one more generation and 
I'll then probably wandering around the countryside talking twith them 
while they identify every plant, animal, rock and cloud formation for me 
and chat me up with all the absurd possible implications of all that?  
After all their LLM backing will have read every book I have and many I 
have not and *I* will be giving it access to the human bipedal 
equivalent of "FSD data gathering" while likely being it's "Meat Puppet"?

Maybe some other real people/humans will start dropping by my house more 
often to teach me GO strategy and talk about "Cabbages and Kings and 
Sealing Wax" before I go full transhuman/cyborg/meat-puppet in spite of 
my Luddite tendencies? Maybe cook a meal together (or just shake up a 
flask of Huel/Soylent?).  Maybe let me show them how to fire a classic 
blacksmith's forge with low-sulfur coal and beat a leaf spring into a 
plowshare or something?  Or pet a chicken whilst stealing her egg.  
Nostalgic eh?  So mid-2020s of me.

I can't wait for what late 2025 will bring, if we survive that long?  If 
I were 20 years younger I'd be digging a bomb shelter with 
microfiltration (against th enext pandemic) and stocking staples and 
trade goods... but I'm not and ready to go down in the blaze of 
self-glory along with everyone else (except Larry Ellison and a few 
others who own their own islands in the middle of the Pacific?)

For this dystopic perspective I recommend Doctorow's 2018 "_Masque of 
the Red Death_" which shows the folly of such wankBillionaires...

    /a wealthy prepper named Martin Mars, who has built a high-tech
    survival bunker called "Fort Doom" in anticipation of societal
    collapse. As the world falls apart due to pandemics, climate
    disasters, and economic collapse, Martin believes his careful
    planning and resources will keep him and his chosen elite safe.
    However, things don’t go as planned, and the story critiques the
    flawed logic of billionaire survivalists who think they can escape
    the consequences of global catastrophe/.

grumble,

   - Steve


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