All it takes is one ultra-rich individual to say, "I'm having my bots build a bot-building factory and giving them to everyone who wants a bot. For free (after all, bots are doing all the work!) Or a hundred bots, who cares. They're free, bots are doing all the work anyway."

> If the average person does not know what an autopilot does

The average person does know what an autopilot does, they're just wrong.

I think the example you provided supports that.

A billion years of kludges.

> I don’t understand what the current crop of political leaders >thinks<

There's your problem.

One could say even that they are trying to hasten the fall of one empire to avoid a protracted period of wars for dominance before the next one rises.

For news about things that are going right, I suggest https://fixthenews.com/. You can get a free weekly email about progress in energy and the environment, national economies, health and medicine, crime etc (or pay for a longer weekly email).

If they have a family.

So: half (1+5) of them made it at least 50 days without cancer, and the other half made it at least 50 days with a smaller tumor? This sounds excellent to me. I agree that the sentence you quoted is overselling, though.

Humans aren't 100% perfect drivers. The question is not, "When will FSD reach 100%," it's "When (if ever) will FSD be better than humans."

And apparently that is perpetually five years from now.

You should definitely demand your money back.

I found that a weekly meeting for a language-learning group worked great. Your family and even your friends learn, "Oh Wednesday evening, D-Coder's busy."