@dwallacewells It might also be informative to show monthly deaths by automobile accident alongside 9/11 and COVID-19 deaths, on a per-capita scale.
@rnd It seems to me that's actually long-term sensible behavior. If they can stop inflating the bubble, maybe it can deflate more slowly and less catastrophically.
Also, Amodei's argument seems based on legitimate concerns rather than "the AI Singularity is nigh -- repent all ye non-investors!" or something.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@axios/117258624508320078
I think it's safe to say he's not wrong.
@brooke I think I stopped there for gas a couple of times in the late 1980s. (It does exist! Really!)
@JulieSqveakaroo This stuff is too old to be internet-aware, so I know at least it isn't that. ...I think. :blobcatupsidedown:
@samuteki This feels very plausible to me -- and not at all distant from my own thoughts on the matter.
@Cdespinosa To me, "they hate our freedom" was always obvious BS. I'm disappointed in how many people bought it (and especially the ones who still do).
@vfrmedia Yeah, legislation needs to balance security against reuse -- where necessary -- and, ideally, come up with legislation that protects both.
The manufacturers, of course, would generally prefer to protect only security, which probably explains a lot of why things are the way they are.
@uastronomer Yeah, we;ve even had one or two of those stolen. I've never even come across one of those radios having a PIN on it, but I always bought lower-end models.
...and yeah, this is the newer integrated design -- which I hate because I can't easily upgrade it. (The current unit can't play from a USB stick and is limited to 500 tracks.)
@rnd @LottieVixen I guess the question in my mind now is: if the PIN is keyed to the serial number on the DVD-ROM reader for the nav system (which is located under the driver's seat), what happens if you plug in a different player? Does the PIN then follow that serial number, or is is hard-wired to match the player it was sold with?
In the former case, then you can always get the PIN from the hardware you hook up to it. In the latter case, the thief just has to remember to take a photo of the DVD's serial-number plate (which is what I did).
@rnd @LottieVixen I can understand something like that in one of the 90s-style modular ("DIN", I think?) radios, but these whole-console things are a beast -- I can't think there'd be a lot of cross-compatibility. I'm not even sure how to get any part of it out, else I'd have probably upgraded long ago (to one that can read a USB stick and handle more than 500 songs on a volume).
@LottieVixen Looking at the wiki page I did about this, I'm reminded that it's worse than CarMax not knowing the number. They actually gave me a card claiming to have the relevant numbers -- and they are all completely wrong. I hypothesize that someone else also bought an Odyssey from them, and received the card with our PINs on it...
@gekitsu I'm picturing a scenario where some executive gave underlings a requirement that "features must be protected by PIN", so they could make it a selling-point on a brochure or something, and the underlings were like "this is stupid, but boss says..." and did the absolute minimum to meet that directive.
I would find this even more believable if it turns out that the dashboard systems were designed by a 3rd party, and not Honda; I'd like to think better than that of Honda.
@LottieVixen To be clear, if you don't enter the PINs you can still use the car just fine -- including the HVAC.
@LottieVixen Well, CarMax sold it to me just fine without knowing the PINs, so... :blobcatupsidedown:
(And if I can figure them out, so can a thief. If they were settable that would at least make a little more sense, but they are absolutely immutable.)
So, our 2010 Honda Odyssey has this weird feature(?) wherein anytime the battery gets disconnected, you have to enter a PIN for the nav system and another one for the radio.
CarMax didn't know what the numbers were when I bought it.
I took it to our local Honda dealer, and they reset them for me but wouldn't tell me what they are.
I figured out on my own that they're based on serial numbers -- I found the numbers and was able to derive the correct PINs, and we now have them both stuck on the dashboard for easy reference.
(Once you enter them, they're both unlocked until the next time the battery gets disconnected or discharged. You don't have to enter them whenever you start the car, even many days later.)
What I really want to know, though, is this: WHO EVEN THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA???