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I own a 2022 Tesla Model Y. Or rather, my powerhouse wife does. Regardless, I’ve driven approximately 10,000 miles in one, and have formed a long list of opinions.

The Good

• The performance
• The cold / icy driving experience is fantastic. It’s the easiest to drive in slippery conditions that I’ve owned except my old toyota 4x4 SUV, but that’s a high bar.
• The adaptive cruise control eliminates 90% of the annoyances from highway driving (though the industry has caught up)
• The 360 cameras and 360 range sensors make driving in tight confines very easy.
• The incident reports. This is the video replay of any person or vehicle approaching or touching your car. I’ve already seen it save an insurance report and aid in accident reporting.
• The appearance
• The superchargers are awesome. It’s absolutely never been a problem to visit one the 3 to 6 times per year we have to use them. We charge at home overnight, and have not set foot in a gas station except to pick up Diet Coke since we bought the Tesla. It seems crazy we don’t all do this, honestly. I can’t wait for gasoline to be a speciality product.

The Bad

Entering the car

Someday there will be a zombie movie where a minor character is running from zombies, turns the corner to see their pristine Tesla, thank god, and will sadly be eaten while they fumble with the app, key cards, and door locking mechanisms (see next section).

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This post is a work in progress…

We have enough AI to explain conscioiusness now, and therefore to create an AI that feels “General”.

• AI can generate words from sounds
• GPT is well known to generate narratives and conversations given rough priors
• Something like Dall E to generate mental imagery around those narratives, when required
• Constantly retrained by feeding what we hear (verbally) and what we see (after “object detection”) in a feedback loop, with all of our “story” as well.

The complication is the starting conditions. We are meant to believe that we are magic “conscious” creatures, even though centuries of contemplatives dispute this.

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