Scott described how he was completely against the seatbelt laws when they were first implemented, and transitioned his opinion to being in complete support of it. He uses that example to explain how most of us will prefer autonomous vehicles in the future, especially when they have been demonstrated to be much more safe than a human driver. He goes on to say that we'll be uncomfortable with the idea of human drivers mixing in with our autonomous vehicles.
That sounds about right to me, though it might take the rest of my lifetime to reach that point.
I've been listening to Peter Zeihan, mostly stuff from a decade ago to see how well his predictions have held up (he got Russian invasion and Europe's energy dependency right).
In a recent slide deck, he showed that the cost of stuff has mostly stayed below overall inflation, while human labor related items have exceeded average inflation. He mostly blames a labor shortage on that; a problem that will increase over time.
He also has a slide showing things he believes will end soon.
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Originally Posted by freebeard
So....
Whadaya think? Should the Francophone portion of Canada be part of the next State?
I still remember when there were 48.  |
50 is a nice even number. Maybe if they merge with one of our puny states.