<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 23 Dec 2025 at 01:09, <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">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.<br>
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That Waymo failure is important.  I was within hours of looking into how to invest in Waymo pre-IPO.<br>

Now, I am holding onto my money.<br>

spike<br><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">-------------------------------</span></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default">Updates are going out from Waymo now.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default"><<a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/24/waymo_updates_power_outages/" target="_blank">https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/24/waymo_updates_power_outages/</a>></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default">Quote:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default">In <a href="https://waymo.com/blog/2025/12/autonomously-navigating-the-real-world" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">announcing</a>
 the fleet tweaks, the Alphabet-owned company said its cars successfully
 navigated more than 7,000 dark traffic signals on Saturday, December 
20.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default">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.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default">------------------------------</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default">No word on hiring a therapist for traumatised Waymos.  ;)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default">BillK</div></div></div>
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