I’m guessing they did at least a minimal assessment of that. :)

Oh yeah, that could be pretty amazing. It would really be strictly superior to actually owning a scooter since you wouldn’t have to worry about having a parking space and stuff. This is also a great illustration of the direct benefits of collective ownership.

From what I’ve seen the driving culture in China does seem to be a lot more relaxed than in western countries. I’ve seen lots of videos of people driving scooters on sidewalks and so on. The legal responsibility is a good question, I would assume the company making the scooter would be responsible since they’re making the self driving system for it.

If this tech works well I can see it making things incredibly convenient. You could just leave your scooter somewhere, and then have it come find you, or you could even share a scooter with a friend this way.

I’m simply amazed by your amazing and well argued counterpoint. Bravo champ.

So, the whole anti-AI movement is deeply reactionary as I explain in detail here https://lemmy.ml/post/29190434

I very much agree, the platforms have to be qualitatively different in nature to make it worth moving.

coming full circle given that German nazis used US as their model

I mean once you switch off from key things like email, calendar, and cloud storage, then it’s a lot easier to move over to a different device.

lol

Getting off US services is probably the more important part.

Given the sheer scale of state investment, that seems all but inevitable https://www.reuters.com/technology/china-seen-leading-chipmaking-investment-again-2025-semi-group-says-2025-03-26/

Oh yeah, I completely agree that AI is a convenient excuse to do layoffs companies were doing anyways.

Of course, the long-term goal of automation is to reduce labor, but current AI is nowhere near replacing human workers. Right now, it’s just a tool that speeds up certain tasks with, as the article notes, very mixed results. That said, we’ve seen steady increase in automation since the Industrial Revolution without mass unemployment. Instead of work disappearing, it is merely transformed. Portrait painters fade out, camera operators emerge. The jobs shift, but the need for human labor persists, just in new forms.

Sure, but these companies just serve as a warning to others, and the hype is already is already dying down. This happens every time new technology appears. There is no structural shift happening with AI meaningfully replacing human labor.

The article talks about a study analyzing the impact of AI on jobs. And what they find is that AI in its current form is not capable of replacing human labor.

The anxiety over job loss actually seems like one of the main reasons. Another big reason seems to be that people are feeling threatened by machines doing things that were thought to be inherently human, which means there’s nothing magical about human cognition.

Once China achieves the capability to produce chips comparable to the latest cutting-edge designs domestically, it will be a watershed moment. As the world’s largest chip market, China’s self-sufficiency would immediately deprive Western firms of a large chunk of their revenue stream. Worse still, China would begin exporting competitively priced chips to global markets, as it did in sectors like electric vehicles, solar panels, and other technologies where it has leveraged scale and state-backed innovation to outpace rivals.

It will be an extinction level event for the Western chip industry, potentially eroding decades of technological leadership and market share in a matter of years. The chip industry operates on razor-thin margins, and companies rely on high-volume sales of new chips to justify the immense capital investments required for their development. A sharp decline in demand would inevitably stall innovation and R&D progress, as firms grappling with eroding profit margins will be under pressure to prioritize short-term survival over long-term technological investment.

This is a great article explaining how the industry works https://compactmag.com/article/fighting-a-chip-war-on-the-cheap

I would totally watch this.

this comment reminds me of how people were talking about Chinese EVs a few years ago, and here you go https://www.trendforce.com/news/2025/03/10/news-chinas-homegrown-euv-machines-rumored-for-q3-trial-production-spelling-trouble-for-asml/

OpenAI is going to have no problems maintaining Chromium. I’m talking about maintenance of community forks of Chromium.

Same, it seems like there needs to be a new foundation that’s specifically focused on Firefox and nothing else. The problem with Mozilla is that they keep trying to do all kinds of stuff instead of just focusing on making a good browser.

I very much agree, I think Firefox is a far better platform to build on.

These are products maintained by companies with a lot of funding behind them. I’m talking about a community effort to continue developing Chromium if it continues to become shittier.

edit: I’m referring to community forks of Chromium here

Naturally, but if OpenAI takes Chrome in an even worse direction than Google, it’s going to be a huge challenge to make a sustainable fork of it that’s governed by the community.

I was referring to people trying to fork Chromium as open source.

Of course, that’s the only proper way to track this.

Chromium is a gigantic codebase that requires a team of experts to maintain, tests, and add features to. It’s far more complicated than just forking it. If this was easy, then people would’ve done this a long time ago.

You’d also have to count all the oil and gas that Canada exports to be burned around the world. Whether it’s used domestically or not doesn’t really make a difference.

When it comes to China, you really have to look at latest numbers because how much renewable installations there change year to year. China hit an inflection point in 2023 where fossil fuel usage started to shrink:

China installed more solar in 2023 than the rest of the world combined, with the majority of it coming online in the country’s sparsely populated west and north.

That same year, its renewable capacity grew faster than its overall demand for electricity — meaning its fossil fuel usage actually went backwards.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-18/survey-of-the-worlds-solar-shows-global-boom/104006096

Then, in 2024 China continued to massively expand renewable usage (including solar)

China has achieved another year of remarkable growth in renewable energy, with the addition of 277 GW of solar and 79 GW of wind capacity in 2024. This surge has brought the cumulative solar and wind capacity to a staggering 1,407 GW. China contributed 15% of the world’s installed solar capacity in 2024 alone.

https://www.spglobal.com/commodity-insights/en/news-research/latest-news/012425-infographic-china-solar-capacity-coal-electricity-renewable-energy-hydro-wind

China hit new record of solar and wind power capacity additions in 2024 https://climateenergyfinance.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/MONTHLY-CHINA-ENERGY-UPDATE-Feb-2025.pdf

China was at nearly 50% of the world’s solar capacity in 2024 according to IEA https://reglobal.org/snapshot-of-global-pv-markets-2024/

China’s new PV installations forecast to reach up to 255GW in 2025 https://www.pv-tech.org/chinas-new-pv-installations-forecast-to-reach-up-to-255gw-in-2025/

The pace of transition to renewables in China is on a completely different scale from the rest of the world.

Per capita production makes no sense actually, per capita consumption makes sense, and that’s double of that in China in Australia.

Clearly not in China, Vietnam, DPRK, Cuba, or Russia, or most of ASEAN. All of them have their shit together.

Like every technological advancement before it, AI under capitalism will inevitably become a tool for human exploitation. The issue was never the technology itself, it’s the rotten social and economic system that determines its use. The West’s profit-driven relations guarantee even our brightest innovations will be weaponized against workers.