(hereās a Verge article about the Waymo car getting burned during a Chinese New Year celebration)
a self-driving car got destroyed (to a round of applause from the crowd) in San Francisco! will the robot car fans on the orange site take this opportunity to explore why the tech seems to be extremely unpopular among the populations of the cities where itās deployed?
of course the fuck not, time to spin the wheel of racist dog whistles and see which one we land on! a note to the roving orange site fans (hi, fuck off), these replies are either heavily upvoted or have broad agreement in the thread (or Iām posting them here cause I want to laugh at some stupid shit, you donāt dictate the terms of my enjoyment)
This isnāt a revolt against AI. SF attracts anarchist mobs and theyāll vandalize buses, trains, police cars, bikes, whatever is around.
weāre off to a strong start with some bullshit straight from muskās twitter (which he stole from the fever dreams of the conservatives on his platform)
Alternatively: this is San Francisco where on a good day the locals donāt need much excuse to set fire to a car (although I usually associate it with the Giants winning a World Series) and this poor dumb stupid driverless Waymo drove into a celebratory and by the looks of it somewhat drunken crowd on the Streets of Chinatown during the Chinese New Year where in following its prime directive to do no harm, it got itself stuck up the creek without a paddle so to speak. Waymo probably should have accounted for that ahead of time and told their cars not to go near Chinatown this evening.
remember that no matter what, the robot car is the victim here. thereās no chance Waymo was doing anything dangerous or assholeish in the area; much like robocop, the car is an innocent victim of its fucking prime directives??? and you wouldnāt set fire to robocop, would you?
This is a hilarious take. A few youths went bonkers and defaced private property. Has nothing to do with philosophical beliefs or a Big Tech agenda. You should debate the finer points of the Big Tech agenda with them while they run up to you in a maddened rage.
yeah! I canāt wait until these angry mobs set fire to your robot car body! then youāll see!
Arguments about driverless cars aside, the youth in this country are seriously lost. It only takes one generation of poor parenting and poor civic policies to ruin a culture.
this one is downvoted, but this reply isnāt:
Sounds like they were right. The youth at that point was lost, and are now raising people who will literally burn down a waymo for fun, or because of some horrifically ignorant idea about fairness.
oh you poor woke kids donāt like when shitty dangerous robot cars are on the streets? are you gonna start crying about how itās āunfairā theyāre covering up pedestrian injuries and traffic accidents now? your grandpa would never stand for this
Iām here kinda often - looks like orange site is yc. Never seen the hostility displayed by OP towards it here though. In fact the only time I see links there tend to be via the mirroring bots.
A lot of tech brains hold tech bro opinions, and that means blindly accepting that the current state of capitalism is āgood for everyone if you just were more drivenā and also includes latent racism which the speaker may not even be aware of
STEMlords (takes one to know one) are often shave a bit too close with Occamās razor, without considering that the absolute simplest solution often leaves out WAY more factors than theyāve even realized. And that leads to some pretty gross opinions. Like, Tim Pool level shit, sometimes.
But bad opinions are everywhere. This is just humanity.
I donāt think weāre hostile towards the orange cite as some philosophical concept.
It is a splendid source of some extremely choice bad takes, though.
youāre āhere kinda oftenā and havenāt ever seen us post about the orange site? fuck off with that
Extreme orange blindness is known to the attorney-general to be one hell of a mask off indicator
It seems like they are talking about being on lemmy often, which is where they are reading this post. Iāve seen HN mirror links pretty often while browsing āAllā and this is the first time Iāve noticed this community. Many people browsing All have likely never interacted with your content before.
oh cool, so they wandered into a sub theyāve never interacted with before, ignored all of its prior content and customs, didnāt even remotely try to address why one would be hostile towards racist posts on a site with a reputation for racism, and then immediately tone policed one of our admins?
I wish I could ban them twice
TBF, never heard of this sub either, just showed up in my feed.
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