It was just a matter of time before we had to deal with the reality that self-driving will be safer on average, but will still randomly kill people in a more noticeable way than the human error killing us every day. Get out your trolley cars and switches, folks. It's ethics timehttps://twitter.com/typesfaster/status/980856376195825664 …
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Replying to @Austen @AustenAllred
Philosophy: so sometimes it goes haywire & ends up- Me: do the thing that kills fewer people Philosophy: but it's very salient th- Me: do the thing that kills fewer people Philosophy: but the human element of control is- Me: do the thing Me: that kills Me: fewer people
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Do you know what kills fewer people? How do you know? Future is uncertain, are you sure?
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1) Self-driving cars 2) Data 3) I'm not & literally never have been
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All your data is from the past. You're making an implicit assumption that the future is going to be like the past which is only partially true. Figuring out the degree to which the data from the past is relevant for the future can be very tricky.
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