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If all the risky tesla owners use Autopilot, then you’d expect the remaining human piloted miles would be safer.
Tesla accidents are already better than the average, presumably more to do with the price of the car rather than the tech... but I’m curious to see a real analysis rather than my speculation.
Obviously the best computer tools offer both visual and textual ways of working. But if you have to pick one, bet on text.
I was about to add a caveat about pure visual tasks, like image composition, but advances like DALL-E are starting to put those tasks into question as well. If I were making a photo editor today, I would bet on text.
This is not a new phenomenon in human communication.
But we’re all just blobs of meat, that’s true. Maybe one day Apple will better tailor their marketing to sentient Bitcoin algorithms.
Really really successful people have handlers that say no to everything.
https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2016/12/18/506036420/a-pla...
This quote was pretty good: “Never before has a geological force become aware of its own influence.”
Conway just referred to it as a monster while corresponding with Fischer and the name stuck.
Also metaphors make weak arguments.
“Trolling on-line forums as described above is actually analogous to the fishing technique of “trolling”, where colorful baits and lures are pulled behind a slow moving boat.”