August 21, 2019

Meanwhile

Record Number of Fires Burning in Amazon Rainforest

UPS Has Been Secretly Using Self-Driving Trucks In Arizona

According to a study, 45% of [American men] have worn the same pair of underpants for two days or longer. The survey also found that men are almost 2.5 times more likely than women to wear their underwear for more than a week.

Between July and early August, some 60 beaches have been closed because of shark sightings around Cape Cod... At least 300 Great Whites — sometimes 15ft-long monsters in just 5ft of water — have been spotted around the Cape.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Re: Self Driving Trucks and AI etal.

If Adam Smith had seen this coming he would have committed suicide...

Anonymous said...

Self driving cars leave me feeling like humanity is at the start of a process that would end like a Star Trek episode of a highly advanced civilization relying on AI so heavily that eventually they cannot fix the devices they have become dependent on, or function without those machines.

Eventually self driving cars might be ready for in town driving, I would never want to rely on it, if my driving directions include "turn off the paved road".

I'm concerned that there hasn't been enough transparency from those developing self driving cars. While they blame the accidents on the human safety driver, is that actually fair? Did the car do anything like switch modes too slowly, respond differently from a regular car causing driver confusion, are the drivers given too long of shifts, or some other enabler of an accident? There is a real crisis with science that might make big profits, often having problems minimized or hidden away to keep stock prices high and investors happy.