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    1. Paul Lewis‏Verified account @PaulLewis 27 Mar 2019

      Paul Lewis Retweeted Paul Graham

      Actually wouldn’t it be better if drivers were discouraged from always looking at their phones?https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1110672251102416896 …

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      Paul GrahamVerified account @paulg
      Something I wish existed: a mobile app that dynamically calculates the probability you're about to crash your car, based on your speed, the history of the piece of road you're on, the weather, the time of day, accelerometer data, etc.
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    2. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 27 Mar 2019
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      Paul Graham Retweeted Paul Graham

      As the third tweet in the thread says,https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1110675396352188419 …

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      Obviously it would not display the probability as a number, but rather beep and/or glow red or something when it crossed a threshold.
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    3. Paul Lewis‏Verified account @PaulLewis 27 Mar 2019
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      My concern about this, and the general move toward reliance on semi-automation in vehicles, is drivers over time stop thinking for themselves. That’s my general concern, in fact, with Silicon Valley’s obsession with with outsourcing human cognitive capacity to smartphones.

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    4. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 27 Mar 2019
      Replying to @PaulLewis

      That has been the case with technology since long before phones or SV. As writing spread there must have been people who worried it would weaken our memories. As in fact it did. But it was worth it.

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    5. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 27 Mar 2019
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      So what you're saying, in effect, is that you have the concern people always have about new technology. Which is not to say that it's an invalid concern.

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    6. Paul Lewis‏Verified account @PaulLewis 27 Mar 2019
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      I’d question whether your historical comparison is justified. When else have we outsourced our capacity to remember, wake-up, navigate, communicate, entertain, socialize and fill our minds during moments of downtime to a single computer?

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    7. Paul Lewis‏Verified account @PaulLewis 27 Mar 2019
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      I mean: people these days swipe to work out what the weather outside is like rather than peel back the curtain and open the window. Brains are being decommissioned. Ps: I seem to recall you once telling me you don’t own an iPhone because of such concerns?

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      Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 27 Mar 2019
      Replying to @PaulLewis

      I have an iPhone but I don't carry it with me. Not because I'm worried about outsourcing my brain though, but because I worry about the addictiveness of always being connected. That, IMO, is like cigarettes, something bad that we'll eventually develop social antibodies to.

      7:17 AM - 27 Mar 2019
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