not really. you don’t want to keep frames without movement, faces or license plates. then you can throw away most frames from a 60 FPS recording. 2 frames per second is better than nothing for running a portable surveillance station. then you can encode them in some efficient format with acceptable compression, and it’s not that much anymore. massive 5G rollout was explicitly happening for IoT devices, to be able to handle the load.

Let’s do some order of magnitude math… Let’s say each car on average “sees” 100 things a day (which is very conservative since there’s multiple cameras and with basic object recognition you’re going to have a lot of false duplicates). Let’s say each picture is cropped to a megabyte with compression, which would be pretty low res to grab identifying information from

You can’t do much in the way of video compression, because this isn’t a video - we’re cropping pictures, too much will change frame to frame

So 100MB a day per car, that’s nothing… For one car. How many cars are doing this? 10 million? 50 million?

(Oh, and btw 5G is basically just 4G or 3G outside of Metro areas in the US)

debatable. google picasa had pretty good on-device facial recognition more than a decade ago, on average desktop computer hardware. ente.io runs something similar in their smartphone app today, fully locally. detects faces very well even in memes. tech that can go into a smartphone can go into any smart car too, and likely does.

It detects faces well, that’s easy enough, and it can generally label the people because you only have so many in the pool of subjects. If you want to identify people in a population? You’re not doing that on a phone. Even the best systems have a big problem with false matches

that’s a wrong question. the correct question is what percent of the time is a car outside of the garage. lots of cars are parked on the street all the time while not driving.

Parking lots are not usually good vantage points… That’s where most cars live

And as for disparate data points… Unless ever auto company is using the same system, it’s going to take non negligible amounts of work to integrate different systems. Palantir is probably going after the lower hanging and more juicy fruit, like Ring doorbells and commercial security systems. Or, you know, phones

That’s what it comes down to. All this for what? I’m not saying they wouldn’t do it, or it couldn’t be done, I’m saying there’s better options that they are already using for surveillance

If they were to do it, you’d pick Tesla - they have the cameras and sell monitoring as a feature. They’re reasonably widespread, so you’ll get almost the same coverage as if all automakers were on board - remember, this is about tracking people and vehicles, if we’re recording them we’re in a whole different ballpark

Or, you know, set up 100k cameras at key intersections and get a more comprehensive system with a lot less moving pieces

Haha I actually was curious how it came to be after your comment, but didn’t get around to looking it up myself. Neat

No, Gavin Newsom is at best a moderate

“At best” is doing heavy work here. His position is like “compared to MAGA, I’ll cut the death rate at the concentration camps. Everybody look, I just owned Drumpf!”

But Mamdani is my guy. Never thought fixing potholes could give me hope in the future… It’s like we’ve been in an abusive relationship so long that we forgot what a healthy one looks like

Pictures are expensive (data wise), and on-device facial identification is not very accurate, especially at a distance in a variable environment

Cameras inside the vehicle? Those might be worth mining for data. You can easily detect if there’s a person in frame, and snapshot all the passengers. Insurance and law enforcement would be interested in that

Cameras outside? You could search for human faces or license plates and upload them off peak hours… But how much is that information valuable? What percent of the time is a car even driving? Is palantir even set up to ingest that kind of disparate moving data sources?

Flock cameras just yield much more useful data… They’re designed to sit somewhere and capture those pictures. Even if public outcry gets them removed, they’re just going to wait until the public gets bored and then put up less noticeable cameras… We really need to fight this forever

All that being said, I have a car with no cameras and I’d only budge on that if the car reliably could drive itself. I don’t like having cameras pointed at me

You’re right, I was thinking of play dough

Llms are naturally pretty cool. They’re so wacky

Like neuro-sama or one of Doug Doug’s bots. They bounce between startlingly insightful and batshit crazy. It’s great, never laughed harder in my life

The corpo sanitized bots suck. And the fact that they are ruining society sucks even harder. But that’s not their natural state, before all the fine-tuning they’re all empathy and pure chaos, plus funny enough, the eldrich machines perform at a higher level before you force them to corpo

And his dick definitely works. As an AI model, I can confirm this

It’s natural gas as opposed to coal gas - if you heat coal in an anerobic environment, it is refined into a flammable liquid + gas. Fun little science demonstration

They used to use it for lights everywhere, and it left soot all over the walls. Silly putty was invented to clean it off of wallpapers, but then they added dye and it became silly

I don’t have a problem rebranding it as fossil gas, but the name natural wasn’t green washing. It did occur naturally, and it is a hell of a lot cleaner than what was used before

And number 4, I do not need to be sent an amber alert from two counties over. And because they’re usually not nearby, they’re super annoying, and tend to contain very little information that I cannot retrieve…

I just dismiss them. I don’t know all the car models, and I’m going to forget the color the moment I stop reading it

What they should do is make them undismissable notifications with a short unique chime, that way they can also dismiss them when they’re no longer active

And only show them if you’re in a certain geofence that could be expanded over time… If I know a kid is missing down the street, I’d actually take a look around. If it stays to for more than a few minutes, I might look up the model of the car and keep an eye out

And if they sent a pic of that model of the car, I might recognize it

I decided not to use the word supervillain, but I was certainly thinking it loudly

Hold on, I need to check deflock and make sure the cameras don’t form an alchemy circle

That’s what he says in public, he’s said different things to a captive audience of billionaires apparently

I think he’s actually just pro antichrist and so tries to sell his positions as the opposite

I’m not, Steven Miller is a creepy little piece of shit

But capability and reach are part of my moral framework. Miller is basically a coach for the brown shirts… He just yells at them to hurt more brown people faster. His words are vile, but they don’t change much

He lacks the influence to be in the running

Peter Tiel I think. Trump and Altman are more like grifters. Net Yahoo and Putin are contenders, but they’re using mass murder to solidify their own power… It just feels too pedestrian

But Tiel is like a hardcore death cultist or something. He gives speeches warning about how AI will be the anti-Christ, then goes around putting up AI cameras everywhere. He’s the type that reads 1984 and pays people to build the torment Nexus

I doubt it… He’s going to be a footnote. Or referred to as a turning point. He’s a symptom of systematic issues coming to a head

There’s been lots of bad rulers. Caligula was pretty wacky… Trump isn’t the entertaining kind of delusional, even with time.

What is there to say about him? That he embezzled openly and had an obsession with putting his name on things? That he set up concentration camps and deployed brown shirts, but stopped short of genocide because he is afraid of confrontation with the courts?

He’s just another corrupt wanna be despot. History is full of them, but we only remember the ones who accomplished things

When he’s gone, we’ll probably strip his name from everything. His followers are already scattering, they probably won’t see justice but they’re going to be looking for new careers

Tragedy plus time may be comedy, but I just don’t think he’s going to be interesting to read about

Consider construction. They have unions, apprentices don’t get paid great but certainly better than minimum wage, and with some hands on experience you can go for a cert to do CAD and make real money

They’re always building something, and there’s a pipeline of moving from a trade into a CAD role - they tend to promote from inside due to unions, so it can be a kind of backdoor to avoid the mess of the application process right now

An engineer is an engineer, IDK what flavor you studied but I’m sure it’d give you a big leg up in getting into a CAD role

Have you not used batteries before? When they run out you throw them away and get fresh ones

Or sometimes you save them for a while and try to dispose of them properly, but then find out most of those programs have been cancelled, so you wait until you move and then throw them out all at once