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by jancsika
1106 days ago
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> FSD is arguably better than both cohorts, considering number of deaths caused. I'm skeptical of any digital technology use case where the analogies/comparisons tend to be: a) to non-digital things, when there are perfectly decent digital comparisons to be made (e.g., autopilot in the airline industry) b) to conspicuous non-digital things, here drunk or inattentive humans c) more or less a $small-human-scale-X improvement on the performance/efficiency/safety of the non-digital thing, often implying a future $unspecified-X improvement that, say, Moore's law would suggest (not saying you're doing the latter here, btw) Those last two especially. I'm just imagining someone hawking a newfangled realtime audio system, claiming that it outperforms hand-punching a player-piano score. It's a silly example for sure; but on a regular basis on HN I read how Bitcoin is no worse than fiat in terms of global energy use, how crypto scam rates are roughly equivalent to wildcat banks in the old west (and hey, we eventually improved on those, so...), and how many more humans cause car deaths than these intractable systems which are "arguably" better than drunks. |
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