all things considered i think driving is much safer than it ought to be, it is astonishing there are not way more car crashes, and i think it's because humans are slightly magic and we can just tell what the right thing to do is in traffic most of the time
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i drove 400 miles this weekend for the first time ever and there were a few times on the highway where i knew that a car was or was not in my blind spot and i don't know how i knew it, i just did the right thing and did not crash. mystifying
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i had a conversation with a group of rationalists once where someone used driving as an example of something you can do on autopilot and one person said "actually i can't drive or do anything else on autopilot, i have to think about everything i'm doing the whole time"
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i think its much much likelier that the person just doesnt perceive when theyre on autopilot. surely they dont breathe manually 24/7
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i mean not literally everything, i think in context it was about physical skills like sports etc. i bought it at the time, i still think it's plausible if they were like... sufficiently anxious? which is why i specified rationalists 😅