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There's a difference between accepting the costs of progress and actively wanting to be indirectly responsible for death.
by n4r9 6y ago
There's a difference between accepting the costs of progress and actively wanting to be indirectly responsible for death.
- WalterBright 6y ago>> The man believes manslaughter is the cost of doing business for innovation > There's a difference between accepting the costs of progress I'm not seeing the essential difference here. P.S. I know nothing about Levandowski, his beliefs, or his statements. Just commenting on what the parent wrote.
- n4r9 6y agoI'm also only commenting on what the parent wrote to be fair. My point is that being disappointed not to be involved in a death - as that comment suggests - is a level of callousness that goes well beyond accepting the cost of progress.
- WalterBright 6y agoSince I don't know the man, I prefer to be charitable and am willing to assume he was just being inept in his choice of phrasing rather than assuming he is evil. I worked on the stab trim gearbox design for the Boeing 757. That gearbox is "flight critical", meaning total failure of it means a crash. I'm very proud that the stab trim system has never caused an accident in the service history of the 757. (Of course, the design was an iteration on the highly successful 747 equivalent, not anything revolutionary.)
- n4r9 6y agoOk, it's fine to make different assumptions about the context. I think you could have made it clearer in your initial response that that's how you saw it.
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoHere's the context in question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25847994 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25847994
- WalterBright 6y ago"Levandowski denies saying this."
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoIf I had said it, and was currently being put on trial for a lot of my other behavior, I'd deny it too.