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ikt @aussie.zone 1mo ago
Thanks for mentioning Japan and Korea
https://files.ikt.id.au/y0q8ls.webp
Japan, South Korea and North Korea would all fit into a space the size of our second smallest state Victoria but that state has a population of 8 million, the combined Korea's and Japan would be 200 million
Speaking of large population sizes:
We are nearly as big as China but with 1.4 billion, if you took their desert which has fuck all trains and transposed that onto Australia we're actually pretty close in terms of trains and public transport
But regardless:
One in Four Japanese Households Do Not Own A Car
https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h00416/auto-appeal-fades-one-in-four-japanese-households-do-not-own-a-car.html
Which leaves 3 in 4 who do own a car, so much for skill issue right :)

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ikt @aussie.zone 1mo ago

The only reason cars are good right now is because countries like US and AU went 100% all in on cars

Not 100%, Melbourne kept its trams around and Victoria still has massive car use

We're just a huge massive low density country so it's hard to compare to inner western europe

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Mark Zuckerberg Is Selflessly Building Yet Another Horrible Product Nobody Asked For

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ikt @aussie.zone 1mo ago

Yes, the industry as a whole I'd say was stagnating before AI came along, Windows 11 was full of garbage and cramming ads and games into the start menu and that was released a year before ChatGPT3.5

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ikt @aussie.zone 1mo ago

I mean if you are only going around the city sure but even in not just bikes favourite country the limitations are obvious

With a total road network of 139,000 km, including 3,530 km of expressways,[2] the Netherlands has one of the densest road networks in the world; much denser than Germany and France, though not as dense as Belgium.[3]

On the roads it has grown continuously since the 1950s and now exceeds 200 billion km travelled per year,[8] three quarters of which are done by car.[9] Around half of all trips in the Netherlands are made by car, 25% by bicycle, 20% walking, and 5% by public transport.[9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_the_Netherlands

But that’s a tiny country country that is extremely flat

As soon as you get out into a real world the problems are obvious

Is A High-Speed Rail Possible In Australia? | Utopia

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8av3knflbQo

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ikt @aussie.zone 1mo ago

Have you?

sadly yes

https://translink.com.au/service-updates/june-july-26

and as mentioned I need my car to get there:

Trains especially so, my local train would be a 20-30 minute walk away and it goes far south and to the city, if i don’t want to go to either of those I’m in for a 5 hour marathon of a trip at best

1mo ago

AI companies are learning an ironic lesson as the people they pay to improve their chatbots are just feeding AI slop into them

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ikt @aussie.zone 1mo ago

What’s going to happen is that OpenAI and Anthropic will ultimately fold because they can’t be profitable

OpenAI maybe because it has a consumer focus and most of their users aren't paying, more likely they'll restrict free use and increase pop ups to get people to sign up

Anthropic is already profitable if you take out the enormous spend they have on training, which if the bubble bursts would leave them as the number 1 ai provider, it's also insanely in demand and has trouble keeping up with its current product, they also have several products mythos etc lined up

That will have devastating ripple effects throughout the economy

I doubt it, I think it'd be closer to liberation day tariff's or the oil crisis, it'll go down for a bit, many articles will be written about how this is the worst thing ever then 6 months later it'll be back up again

As said all the major players in this game are super profitable major companies, that won't change

Despite Lemmy doomer posting about AI every 2.8 nanoseconds it is getting better:

We propose measuring AI performance in terms of the length of tasks AI agents can complete. We show that this metric has been consistently exponentially increasing over the past 6 years, with a doubling time of around 7 months. Extrapolating this trend predicts that, in under a decade, we will see AI agents that can independently complete a large fraction of software tasks that currently take humans days or weeks.

https://metr.org/blog/2025-03-19-measuring-ai-ability-to-complete-long-tasks/

The only thing that worries me is that:

Economists warn that without AI-driven investment, the U.S. may already be in a recession, raising concerns about economic dependency.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/ai-infrastructure-boom-masks-potential-us-recession-analyst-warns.html

The US economy might already be in the shitter and AI is just hiding it

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AI companies are learning an ironic lesson as the people they pay to improve their chatbots are just feeding AI slop into them

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ikt @aussie.zone 1mo ago

the bubble won’t burst dot com style like you’re all hoping btw, it’s not a bunch of tiny companies over valued, the biggest companies invested in ai are the biggest companies in the world

they’re not about to go broke, if anything the ai bubble popping would make them return to regular super insane profitability

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AI companies are learning an ironic lesson as the people they pay to improve their chatbots are just feeding AI slop into them

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ikt @aussie.zone 1mo ago

oh man it had been 3.4 nanoseconds since the last ai slop post here on lemmy, thanks for posting!

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ikt @aussie.zone 1mo ago

yeah tbh i was being a bit hyperbolic, i don’t mind my train trip to work despite it being slow af

but it would take an insane public transport network to service south east queensland, until we find an infinite money glitch it’s only going to be used for a minimum viable amount of very popular trips, eg between brisbane and the gold coast and soon the sunshine coast

but for example if you want to go to crows nest from brisbane there will never be a train that goes that way because of low numbers

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ikt @aussie.zone 1mo ago

can you name all these European cities combining well functioning train, bus and cycle infrastructure outside of the netherlands? (where the average person/household does not have a car as they don’t need it)

1mo ago

All the money flooding into AI is a giant warning sign — When companies as a group turn into sellers, it’s a reasonable sign that stocks are very overpriced

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ikt @aussie.zone 1mo ago

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ikt @aussie.zone 1mo ago

We are talking about an equivalent 'pod/train car', not a car but I'll bite anyway

Have you ever been on a train? It sucks, a bus 10000% more, buses fuckin suck so much, I'm sorry for you to hear this in the echo chamber which features 'fuck cars'.

Like I said, trains and buses have 2 big negatives:

limited availability and is extremely restrictive in where it can go

Trains especially so, my local train would be a 20-30 minute walk away and it goes far south and to the city, if i don't want to go to either of those I'm in for a 5 hour marathon of a trip at best

But we should invest more in trains you might be saying, and again the question goes back to, why would a train be better than a pod/car that can roll around on train tracks

This whole thread took the original meaning and warped it into a circle jerk about trains which is not what the OP was saying

1mo ago

[Swedish] Mullvad CEO donates to Swedish party that believes in "remigration"

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ikt @aussie.zone 1mo ago

It is a human right to leave your environment for something better

You know human rights are imaginary as well?

It is not my belief, it is other people’s belief in imaginary lines

When you say "other people's" you make it sound like what you're saying isn't insane, you're part of like 0.001% of people who want an endless planet with no borders or countries, that's insane to most people.

Humans migrated for a millennia

Humans have fought over land for a millennia

it is other people’s belief in imaginary lines that make up countries that cause this immigration problem

At no point in history has a tribe or group of people ever welcomed endless migration with open arms because there are obvious issues that come with this that are realised sooner or later.

We are in the or later part.

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ikt @aussie.zone 1mo ago

why would an individual car “train” that can go anywhere (eg. train tracks on all roads for self driving cars) be shitter than a train that has limited availability and is extremely restrictive in where it can go?

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[Swedish] Mullvad CEO donates to Swedish party that believes in "remigration"

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ikt @aussie.zone 1mo ago

just be warned you are arguing sensible policies on the fediverse and even worse on piefed.social, if you get banned do not be surprised, these guys are used to the echo chamber so they cannot debate only screech and ban