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Freston: Political Attacks on DEI Are Racism Without the Dog Whistle
“It's racism without the dog whistle.”
Russell: Tesla's vision system fails to stop for child crash dummies
“Like, literally, if you put, like, a, you know, a crash dummy right in front of the car like a child pedestrian crash dummy, like, it doesn't come to a safe stop, like, at a reasonable speed.”
Elon Musk falsely brands assisted driving systems as fully autonomous
“I think a lot of the friction of why it's been so controversial in terms of what he's saying is because he's calling an assisted driving system and autonomous driving system.”
Nocera: Comparing lockdown and non-lockdown country data shows no difference
“They don't work. If you look at countries that locked down versus countries that didn't lock down, you don't, you can't tell which is which. You absolutely can't.”
Nocera: Great Barrington Declaration approach was the right pandemic response
“The heroes of our book, they're the guys who wrote the Great Barrington Declaration, and their view was, you protect the elderly and the immunocompromised, and you let everybody else live their life. When you get down to little kids, I mean, very, very few lit…”
Hoffman: Elon Musk's AI Pause Petition Was Intellectually Dishonest
“Well, Elon's in particular was signing this six month pause letter while trying to hire people and buy as much compute and get going as fast as possible. Everyone else slow down so I can catch up. That's not intellectually honest.”