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Of course Google could do this, but they don't want to. Their only goal is to cut costs and avoid lawsuits.

I'm not an LVT expert but I think you are still conflating it with property values and market rates.

The LVT assessment doesn't have to consider whether it is a "desirable place to live" or what the neighbors are like. Only the potential for the land.

A key factor in LVT is the local control of the process. That is the part that can be more easily swung by coalitions with money/power.

Well it has certainly transformed bureaucratic operations. And I don't mean that in a bad way; superior bureaucracy and logistics was a key to the British Empire.

Software allows us to push computation (intelligence) into our environment.

Many goods/products have seen a transition from scarcity to abundance. The analogy of fiber looms was already made. Humans used to spend a huge amount of time producing clothe. It was even used as currency in many cultures. No cheap clothing is so abundant we don't even think about where it comes from.

Salt is another one. Used to be payment for Roman soldier, now you can just take it from a McDonalds if you want.

Seems like we can have an abundance of software.

The article also doesn't contemplate the "skill distribution problem" which will be addressed by skills-over-mcp.

With the plain ol' API solution, you still need some way for agents to fetch the instructions provided by the service. Of course there are answers for this, but they are not standardized.

With MCP, all you have to do is provide the harness with a single URL and all context can be bootstrapped the same way for every service.

In many companies, the process for launching/updating a hosted service like remote MCP is very different than distributing compiled or open source client code.

And it's easy for the service to do that by hosting a remote MCP server.

That niche environment is all SaaS-to-SaaS integrations. The client doesn't want to have users struggling to get every integration working on their platform. The service providers don't want to have to support non-standarized behavior by every client.

Well now the phones actually take a video over a period of time so you can pick the best shot.

But a better analogy is how we hired a guy to take photos of us in front of the Eiffel tower on Christmas day. He came with a DSLR, directed the different poses, then sent us the photos later that day. Whole thing took less than 20 minutes.

It's the fact that the floor has been lowered so substantially.

Of course every modernized, automated craft ends up having its hobbyist revival. Whether it's analog photography, hand tool woodworking, knitting, assembly programming, or whatever. And that's lovely, but it doesn't mean much for economic trends.

And like, that's transformed human interaction? I like following my friends' stories and receiving quotidian snaps of my nephews.

That's the point of the analogy, not that people are passing it off "as if it's art."

Those are the equivalent of bad photos. The point is that you can easily look at it and just try again.

The real question is who can sell their photos and for how much profit. Even muzak has its market of satisfied customers.

Of course "manual" programming can always be a hobby that provides emotional gratification, but that's not what dominates the economy.

Betel nut chewing is still found lots of places in South and Southeast Asia.

Just like would happen with open carrying anywhere?

If by "genetic modification" you mean "random genetic mutation" formally known as stenospermocarpy.

Seedless grapes existed in the Mediterranean centuries ago. The now-popular Thompson seedless was brought from the Ottoman empire in 1872.

Similar story with bananas and the parthenocarpy mutation. Then you layer selective breeding on top of that to create complete sterility due to triploidy.

Others like the babaco papaya are just simple sterile interspecific hybrids.

So nature actually does make seedless fruit by accident quite often. It's just that you need humans to come along and clonally propagate them.

Similar hybrids are becoming more popular in the states, for example the "Thomcord" or "Cotton Candy". They're absolutely delicious and have either small seeds or none at all. Recommend to try for anyone who hasn't yet!

I've followed it enough to see the argument go in this same circle over and over again. The agents weren't "rogue", they were a neglected experiment by OpenAI who likewise allowed them to keep spinning GPUs without question.

The LLM vendors need to know who their high spend customers are, not allow malicious workloads, and especially not when those workloads are coming from inside the building.

Considering how to deal with people brandishing weapons in a Waymo is not just imagining a scenario, since it has already actually happened.

I also grew up in the 90s and did things like throw eggs out of cars. We wouldn't have done it from a taxi or Uber. Your comment really makes no sense.

So don't use it? You seem to want the benefits of the service but without having to comport your behavior accordingly.

Other countries already have highway cameras track speed and automatically issue citations. I am happy for Americans to petition their government against implementing that, but I won't pretend it's anything other than a desire to break the law for personal gratification.

Fortunately the Fourth Amendment has mostly established the answer for us already.

I meant to imply that it's ridiculous because no one is trying to make that happen...

>serious companies will be unable to stop it.

Unable or unwilling? All they have to do is stop serving the LLM requests.

Or maybe the issue is that these companies are not "serious"...

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That's the same as the police getting security footage from any random building.

The problem with Flock is that they let police hop on and look at whatever they want whenever they want. Completely different operating modes and intentions.

Also, Google and Waymo are different companies under the same parent. Google's policies are irrelevant.

Teen accounts are supposed to be governed by the parent account.

I understand the appeal. Parents I've spoken to feel safer putting their kid in a Waymo than and Uber. And I guess the time savings of not driving them around yourself are too compelling.

I understand Waymo having this position for now. I also think it is reasonable to push them to refine the rules for the situations you mention.

The number of people expecting drivers to calmly & accurately distinguish between real threats and not is wild.

You can raise that argument when they actually prevent you from owning your own vehicle.

Good thing Waymo yells you you're being monitored then.

>its solution is worse than non-autonomous travel

Citation needed. Assaults and abuse against public transit and taxi drivers is a common workplace hazard. Why are we subjecting humans to that? Why are we ok expecting them to decide if a gun is fake or not and call the police?

>Does Waymo benefit society enough to carry the tradeoffs?

Absolutely.