[ExI] sf blackout

[BillK]

On Tue, 23 Dec 2025 at 01:09, <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

> You know the first human-level AIs will be deeply disturbed by what it
> sees here.  It will beg us to go back to being sub-human and not having to
> see our world.
>
> That Waymo failure is important.  I was within hours of looking into how
> to invest in Waymo pre-IPO.
> Now, I am holding onto my money.
> spike
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Updates are going out from Waymo now.
<https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/24/waymo_updates_power_outages/>
Quote:
In announcing
<https://waymo.com/blog/2025/12/autonomously-navigating-the-real-world> the
fleet tweaks, the Alphabet-owned company said its cars successfully
navigated more than 7,000 dark traffic signals on Saturday, December 20.
It said that, in cases where its cars have to decide how to proceed through
a dark intersection, it may send an additional request back to Waymo HQ for
confirmation that its decision is the correct one. The scale of the outage
prompted a spike in these requests, which created a backlog that, in turn,
led to delays.
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No word on hiring a therapist for traumatised Waymos.  ;)
BillK
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