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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it" seems apt here regarding both Karpathy and Elon. You can call me skeptical, but when there are millions and billions of dollars on the line for the two respectively, I don't know if I believe in Karpathy's expertise (which is in AI, not self-driving per se) and personal integrity sufficiently to believe he is doing what he considers to be the right thing vs. putting profit ahead of human lives.


Do you have any expertise on self driving, remote sensing, computer vision, navigation systems or anything else on this topic? Do you have a Tesla with the FSD package and participate in the beta program?

From what I've heard firsthand Autopilot still steadily improves, irrespective of what people say about their favourite sensing modalities...




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