"Nevertheless, it’s fundamentally a stupid idea because off-road trails are the places in America least likely to have a charging station nearby, and part of being off-road is that you can’t really be exact as to your schedule or timing." Exactly. Which is why I bought a JGC PHEV and not a Rivian, etc. I've been places where I worried that the 400 mile gas range would not be enough to get to the nearest gas station. EV charging station? LOL Can AAA bring a bucket of electrons to you if you run out of charge?
Hmmm, someone needs to invent a charge siphon. Drive up to a trail head, connect a cord from your EV to another EV, and suck the charge out of their battery, then drive off all energized. Maybe we can get an AI bot to invent this very useful device.
Re: the Rivian, if I have to hear one more person glaze the Rivian for off-road prowess when it doesn’t even include a spare fucking tire I’m going to explode. No spare is criminally negligent in a purported “off roader”. The R1T has one I guess but the R1S and R2 are *optional* space savers. Off roader my ass.
When people joke about the DMV I just think, not here in Ohio, but in 1963 on the other hand — all registrations were handled in a one or two month period, cash only. Any you got brand new plates, no stickers yet. Sorry I couldn't read the Hyundai article yesterday....
And that photo of the Recon is just stupid. If one is carrying bikes, presumably one is going to go for a ride. Are you going to leave the vehicle with the doors off, so critters or vagrants can have access to the inside? Or if the doors are storable in the back (maybe, but I doubt it) where do you then put the front bike wheels, and gear, and whatnot? In the back seat where it can fall out? Morons.
I will believe all the AI people’s warnings if in the same posts they say they are also leaving the Democrat party and registering as Republicans since the threat to humanity from the Democrats is much greater than that from AI.
I just did a Gemini prompt on what are the prediction market odds that AI wipes out the human race. It came back with .38% by 2100 on the low end and ~5%-13% by 2030 on the high end.
I have a neighbor who works as an engineer for Stelantis, I have seen the Recon, it looks very much like a jeep, just no tail pipe…
Terminator was a documentary…. Only half kidding.
I might drop my CDL so that I never have to visit dmv again, it didn’t use to be that bad, anymore it sucks in Michigan, and next year they want to do a pilot study on charging an additional 200 bucks for ten thousand miles, glad I am retired and can control how much I drive.
1. The "Payout Flaw": Real-money prediction markets rarely host high-volume "end of humanity" bets because if humanity goes extinct, there is no platform left to payout the winnings. This creates a structural bias toward "NO" bets or forces traders to treat short-term derivative questions as proxies.
2. Specialist vs. Crowd Variance: While general prediction markets hover under 5–15%, surveys of top machine learning researchers and AI safety figures often yield higher median estimates (commonly referred to as \bm{P(\text{doom})}) in the 5% to 20% range.
As for number one I wanted to say “Duh”. How do you get paid if it happens?
God, a friend of mine just got a 95 NA with that deep blue exterior and the tan interior. Put a wooden Nardi wheel it and it just looks so so good.
Always fun watching Lewis eat shit.
The Anthropic thing is even dumber than normal Silicon Valley idiocy, because if _anyone actually thought that_, they would be full on Linda-Hamilton-in-T2 mode. Everyone is going on about low probability / high impact scenarios, but if they really believed there was a TEN PERCENT chance of civilization ending, they should be doing NOTHING besides bombing the frontier labs. That they’re not shows how much bullshit they’re wading in.
Mazda has a paint color problem with the Miata, just like all car manufacturers do with their gray scale colors. But the Miata is so cool its primer paint colors are especially tragic.
I’m guessing the classic green paint with tan interior is seen as a Boomer old man thing so it will be rare going forward, since all the marketing departments are full of youngsters. Maybe there’s a chance with the Japanese.
"Nevertheless, it’s fundamentally a stupid idea because off-road trails are the places in America least likely to have a charging station nearby, and part of being off-road is that you can’t really be exact as to your schedule or timing." Exactly. Which is why I bought a JGC PHEV and not a Rivian, etc. I've been places where I worried that the 400 mile gas range would not be enough to get to the nearest gas station. EV charging station? LOL Can AAA bring a bucket of electrons to you if you run out of charge?
You can always siphon some. :) Not that I’ve ever siphoned fuel before.
Hmmm, someone needs to invent a charge siphon. Drive up to a trail head, connect a cord from your EV to another EV, and suck the charge out of their battery, then drive off all energized. Maybe we can get an AI bot to invent this very useful device.
Best Beavis and Butthead voice, “eh, eh, he said suck and EV in the same sentence…eh, eh”
Steve, well well said, EV off-road vehicles are for posers not for real wilderness adventures.
This comment is trail rated.
Wes Siler isn’t going to like reading this.
Too. Freaking. Bad.
Re: the Rivian, if I have to hear one more person glaze the Rivian for off-road prowess when it doesn’t even include a spare fucking tire I’m going to explode. No spare is criminally negligent in a purported “off roader”. The R1T has one I guess but the R1S and R2 are *optional* space savers. Off roader my ass.
When people joke about the DMV I just think, not here in Ohio, but in 1963 on the other hand — all registrations were handled in a one or two month period, cash only. Any you got brand new plates, no stickers yet. Sorry I couldn't read the Hyundai article yesterday....
I’m sitting in the drive through line in my Wrangler with the doors off and I’m 100% squeak free. FWIW.
And that photo of the Recon is just stupid. If one is carrying bikes, presumably one is going to go for a ride. Are you going to leave the vehicle with the doors off, so critters or vagrants can have access to the inside? Or if the doors are storable in the back (maybe, but I doubt it) where do you then put the front bike wheels, and gear, and whatnot? In the back seat where it can fall out? Morons.
2011 Miata owner here. Would kill for a BRG on tan. Or Competition Yellow. Or 90s teal....
More real colors is the one thing every Miata owner has been clamouring for years now...but nope, it's one nice red, and then fifty shades of lame.
What, not a fan of (checks notes) Baby Poop Green?
Does anyone know the prediction market odds of AI wiping out the human race? I’m not interested enough to check.
I will believe all the AI people’s warnings if in the same posts they say they are also leaving the Democrat party and registering as Republicans since the threat to humanity from the Democrats is much greater than that from AI.
You’re welcome.
The only thing saving us is that the Dems are mostly incompetent.
And they’re neck and neck with their fellow Unipartians.
Jacob Coxon's post has 119.3M views in 22hrs.
Sydney Sweeney could only dream of that
He is clearly being boosted by a well funded campaign
We need to ask: do we want the US government to merge with Anthropic and OpenAI and ban all other AI's?
They have totally lobotomized Claude, so I would say fuck no.
I just did a Gemini prompt on what are the prediction market odds that AI wipes out the human race. It came back with .38% by 2100 on the low end and ~5%-13% by 2030 on the high end.
I have a neighbor who works as an engineer for Stelantis, I have seen the Recon, it looks very much like a jeep, just no tail pipe…
Terminator was a documentary…. Only half kidding.
I might drop my CDL so that I never have to visit dmv again, it didn’t use to be that bad, anymore it sucks in Michigan, and next year they want to do a pilot study on charging an additional 200 bucks for ten thousand miles, glad I am retired and can control how much I drive.
It also came back with this.
Market Incentives & Biases
1. The "Payout Flaw": Real-money prediction markets rarely host high-volume "end of humanity" bets because if humanity goes extinct, there is no platform left to payout the winnings. This creates a structural bias toward "NO" bets or forces traders to treat short-term derivative questions as proxies.
2. Specialist vs. Crowd Variance: While general prediction markets hover under 5–15%, surveys of top machine learning researchers and AI safety figures often yield higher median estimates (commonly referred to as \bm{P(\text{doom})}) in the 5% to 20% range.
As for number one I wanted to say “Duh”. How do you get paid if it happens?
God, a friend of mine just got a 95 NA with that deep blue exterior and the tan interior. Put a wooden Nardi wheel it and it just looks so so good.
Always fun watching Lewis eat shit.
The Anthropic thing is even dumber than normal Silicon Valley idiocy, because if _anyone actually thought that_, they would be full on Linda-Hamilton-in-T2 mode. Everyone is going on about low probability / high impact scenarios, but if they really believed there was a TEN PERCENT chance of civilization ending, they should be doing NOTHING besides bombing the frontier labs. That they’re not shows how much bullshit they’re wading in.
That's the second best color combo, after BRG / tan.
OT - who is going to be the first here to rush out and buy the new folding iPhone, which costs ONLY $1999 to $3200 ?
Not me. I finally got around to activating the S25 ultra i bought last year!
I had a Galaxy fold for a while and it was useful but not life changing. I’d rather have something more like the Flip.
(Also, iOS is hot garbage. There, I said it)
Mazda announced that it is bringing out a green color for the 2027 ND, but it has turned out to be another grey:
https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a71460279/nd-mazda-mx-5-miata-finally-adds-green-paint/
BSG edition.
(Baby shit green.)
SIG
Sinus Infection Green.
What did R&T do to their website? That’s terrible.
"... 𝙞𝙩 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙣𝙫𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙠𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙝𝙞𝙢 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙤𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙢 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙙𝙧𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙢𝙥𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙧."
I'm not sure even that would stop it.
Mazda has a paint color problem with the Miata, just like all car manufacturers do with their gray scale colors. But the Miata is so cool its primer paint colors are especially tragic.
I’m guessing the classic green paint with tan interior is seen as a Boomer old man thing so it will be rare going forward, since all the marketing departments are full of youngsters. Maybe there’s a chance with the Japanese.
If I ever buy a Nissan Z I’m going to get it in black and have custom gold stripes added to emulate the 1978 Lotus Esprit JPS. I had AI make a rendering with gold wheels and it looked smashing! Here’s the Esprit. https://silodrome.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/A-Brief-History-of-the-Lotus-Esprit-16.jpg