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> There are not uncountably many OP was obviously not using that term mathematically (i.e. the cardinality of the power set of natural numbers), and obviously
by routerl 4y ago
> There are not uncountably many
OP was obviously not using that term mathematically (i.e. the cardinality of the power set of natural numbers), and obviously meant something in the neighborhood of "effectively not countable". And, again, in all but the formal mathematical meaning of the word "countable", many things are not countable (e.g. no one will live long enough to count all the natural numbers).
In the real world, assigning an ordinal number to an object/event/thing has a nonzero time cost. And accounting for every situation in software has a much greater cost.
> If the rate for autonomous vehicles is already below that of humans, or rapidly headed there, that's far more important to note than to theorize about other corner-cases.
Okay, but dangerous human drivers get systematically removed from the streets. Are we doing the same for self-driving cars? In this context, does every Tesla count as the same "driver"?
Maybe all Teslas should have their autonomous driving centrally disabled every time one causes an accident, or breaks a law, until that specific issue is fixed. But it would be impossible to run a car company that way, so of course that takes priority over, say, keeping innocents alive, right? /S
- DennisP 4y ago> Are we doing the same for self-driving cars? Effectively we are, as long as their developers fix the problems that led to the crash. Change the software and you have a new driver.
- routerl 4y agoAnd just let them keep driving until that happens? What proof to we have that any of these issues have been solved? And self-driving is a combined hardware/software system, not just software. Certain problems aren't bugs, but limitations of the hardware.