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Comment by lixtra | Hacker News Reader

One side of me agrees, the other thinks of the Wright brothers. Oh wait, they got someone killed.

I am genuinely interested, do you think that the Wright Brothers should not have developed the technology that they did because of the risk that someone would get killed? I am having trouble imagining any way (at least at the time, but probably today as well) of inventing manned flight without anybody dying in the process.

Inventing manned flight without anybody dying would have been completely possible. Use more caution, pay more attention to safety. But that's not the right hypothetical. This is inventing manned flight without endangering or killing innocent bystanders.

I don’t think anything is possible risk free. So it comes down to your/societies risk tolerance how save, expensive and slow or risky, cheap and fast progress should be. Ideally the risk is taken by conscious and free individuals. But yes, bystanders will be hit as well.

For manned flight it was totally worth the risk.

He did? Wow, I have never heard this story:

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-first-fatal-airplane-crash-177...

..he killed an Army Lt during a demonstration, and took some pretty bad injuries to himself.

Ye, it is cool.

How ever, I feel there's a huge difference between pioneering flying and risking the general public's lives to feed your proprietary machine learning model. Because Hortz hasen't released that part of the software right? Last time I checked it was still closed source.

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