not reporting his exchanges with foreign entities

Is this true?

Not all swarms have been intentional. IIRC, the agents in the Hugging Face incident formed their own swarm. They weren’t even supposed to be “aware” that there were other agents.

Did any of them mention why?

New products take a long time to plan, develop, and launch at large companies like Microsoft. Laying off 60k employees is quite a bump in quarterly profits.

Doesn’t seem any closer today than, say, 2 years ago.

Have you seen what small, open-weight models from Chinese labs are capable of doing on consumer-grade hardware? They’re much more advanced than any flagship LLM running on VERY expensive hardware, 2 years ago.

I have no idea how close we might (or might not) be to the bubble bursting, but surely it’s closer than 2 years ago.

🤔 what’s the logic here?

Well they’ve been making e-CVTs since the '90s. It seems like the other CVTs entered the market and ruined things.

Yep, I had similar criteria in mind: Reliability, low maintenance, and within budget (no loans/debt). Mine’s not a Prius, but I’ve noticed that used Toyotas in general tend to be pricier than other comparable cars.

I was actually in the market for an EV, initially. I assumed EVs would be more reliable due to simpler powertrains, fewer moving parts, fluids, etc. Sadly, my assumption was wrong. The EV category ranked lower than traditional gas cars, in terms of reliability.

IIRC, the rankings are:

1. Hybrid (not the plug-in kind)
2. Gasoline-only
3. EV
4. Plug-in hybrid

(I might be able to dig up sources for this later, if it’s still in my browser history.)

Of course, these are broad generalizations, and there are some exceptions at each level.

Oh I have no issues with OPD. I think it’s pretty cool. I was just trying to explain why the Toyota’s brakes surprised me. They feel just like friction brakes, despite the actual breaking being mostly done with regen.

It’s probably nothing special to most people, but I think it’s interesting

I used to think hybrids must be more complex because they’re gas + EV. And more complex usually means less reliable.

I just learned very recently that that’s not the case — for Toyota, anyway. Their hybrids are actually generally considered more reliable than their traditional gas cars, these days.

They deleted the starter and alternator. And the transmission, an e-CVT (which is nothing like the shitty CVTs that many people are familiar with), is dead simple and more reliable than even a manual transmission.

Also, I find brake pedal very interesting, because it actually feels completely normal and UNinteresting.

My only experience with regenerative breaking before was when I drove someone’s Tesla. Letting my foot off the “gas” pedal felt like braking, and the brake pedal was only needed for hard, emergency braking.

In Toyota hybrids, the gas and brake pedals feel absolutely normal and familiar, despite most of the braking actually being regenerative 🤯.

There’s probably more cool engineering that I have yet to discover. I just bought my Toyota like 2 weeks ago 🙂

(Note: Many manufacturers make hybrids differently, and there are plenty of shitty ones. Also, plug-in hybrids are pretty different, and generally less reliable.)

If I had to take a wild guess: Government bailouts