Current media and institutions already try to control the conversation and how people think, and I can see futures where AI could be used by those in power to do this more effectively.

You don’t think that’s already happening considering how Sam Altman and Peter Thiel have ties?

Yeah dude at one point there was no languages and no songs. You can get into "what counts as a language" but at one point there was none. Same with songs.

Language specifically was pretty unlikely to be an individual effort, but at one point people grunting at each other became something else entirely.

Your whole "there is nothing new under the sun" way of thinking is just an artifact of the era you were born in.

Haha wtf are you talking about. You have no idea what generation I am, you don't know how old I am and I never said there is nothing new under the sun.

I think the self driving is likely to be safer in the most boring scenarios, the sort of situations where a human driver can get complacent because things have been going so well for the past hour of freeway driving. The self driving is kind of dumb, but it's at least consistently paying attention, and literally has eyes in the back of it's head.

However, there's so much data about how it fails in stupidly obvious ways that it shouldn't, so you still need the human attention to cover the more anomalous scenarios that foul self driving.

I'm summarizing your shitty argument and viewpoint. I never said it was a direct quote.

Though, at one point even that tired ass quote and your whole way of thinking was put into words by someone for the first time.

Anomalous scenarios like a giant flashing school bus?

Well you are doing a poor job of it and are bringing an unnecessary amount of heat to an otherwise civil discussion

much less? I'm pretty sure our brains need food and food requires lots of other stuff that need transportation or energy themselves to produce.

At least in my car, the lane following (not keeping system) is handy because the steering wheel naturally tends to go where it should and less often am I "fighting" the tendency to center. The keeping system is at least for me largely nothing. If I turn signal, it ignores me crossing a lane. If circumstances demand an evasive maneuver that crosses a line, it's resistance isn't enough to cause an issue. At least mine has fared surprisingly well in areas where the lane markings are all kind of jacked up due to temporary changes for construction. If it is off, then my arms are just having to generally assert more effort to be in the same place I was going to be with the system. Generally no passenger notices when the system engages/disengages in the car except for the chiming it does when it switches over to unaided operation.

So at least my experience has been a positive one, but it hits things just right with intervention versus human attention, including monitoring gaze to make sure I am looking where I should. However there are people who test "how long can I keep my hands off the steering wheel", which is a more dangerous mode of thinking.

And yes, having cameras everywhere makes fine maneuvering so much nicer, even with the limited visualization possible in the synthesized 'overhead' view of your car.

i dont have anything else going on, man

And they made the programs you seem to trust so much.