Andy

Gaza has collapsed. It is beset by famine and starvation. Widespread unavailability of fuel is exacerbating the collapse of infrastructure and systems essential to preserve life. Gaza is in large parts no longer habitable.

I’m so sick of articles saying it’s on “the edge of collapse” or “teetering on famine” or “soon to be uninhabitable”.

It happened. It’s a killing field. All life in Gaza is now persisting in spite of efforts to extinguish it. Nursing mothers cannot produce milk. The elderly die for lack of basic 20th century medicines. No food can grow and what water there is is tainted and unsafe to drink. Hospitals are barely more thanpiles of rubble at which the doctors who’ve not yet been assassinated tearfully go to provide insufficient care to the dying on sites that were once known as houses of modern medicine.

We are watching a ruthless genocide and no humanitarian need can be fulfilled without ending the brutal blockade intended to kill all living on this land. And this is not a “looming” or “imminent” risk, it’s reality.

Also, not only do they rely on “just vision”, crucially they rely on real-time processing without any memory or persistent mapping.

This, more than anything else is what bewilders me most.

They could map an area, and when observing a construction hazard save that data and share it with other vehicles so they know when route setting or anticipate the object. Not they don’t. If it drives past a hazard and goes around the block it has to figure out how to navigate the hazard again with no familiarity. That’s so foolish.

Oof.

This month is really feeling like one gut punch after another.

This is a genuine concern that we should recognize.

I’m about 99% confident it isn’t, but considering it is the kind of caution we should all be exercising these days.