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If humans were rational the human average would keep going up as anyone bellow average leaves it to robots, but instead it sounds like a lot of people with illu

If humans were rational the human average would keep going up as anyone bellow average leaves it to robots, but instead it sounds like a lot of people with illusory superiority will keep hurting themselves.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority

SirMaster 3y ago
So even though overall fatal traffic accidents would go down with self-driving cars for example. You personally wouldn't be upset at all if a loved one died to a bug in the software that caused the self-driving car to make an obvious mistake that the loved one would never in a million years have made themselves? I can see how people can have concerns at least, when control it taken away.
- fatfingerd 3y ago
  I think you should expect to die if you spend a lot of time on the road. Does it matter what bug the driver has that runs you down?
  - talldatethrow 3y ago
    Get over yourself. If you don't speed, don't drink and drive, and don't road rage, the odds of dying on the road are not that bad. Riding a motorcycle is 60x more dangerous than a car per mile. I have easily done over 100,000 miles on a sportsbike in California traffic. That's the equivalent of 6 Million miles in a car. I have had one close call in 10 years. Never even stubbed a toe on a motorcycle.
    - fatfingerd 3y ago
      > Get over yourself. I consider ceasing to interpret my own survivor bias as skill instead of luck, getting over myself.
      - talldatethrow 3y ago
        Are you denying that skill exists in the world? But beyond that, not speeding, not drinking and driving/riding, and not raging on the road are not exactly 'skills'. But honestly, I am a pretty skilled rider. I just don't have to use most of it on the road... I said myself I only had one close call in 10 years. Only that moment really involved skill.
1letterunixname 3y ago
It's called Dunning-Kruger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect The smart and the wise seek automation and others to multiply their effort. The lazy and the less molecular wedge-like instruments do things the hard way(tm) themselves. It doesn't take a particle physics PhD to be resourceful, improvisational, and productive.

SirMaster 3y ago

So even though overall fatal traffic accidents would go down with self-driving cars for example. You personally wouldn't be upset at all if a loved one died to a bug in the software that caused the self-driving car to make an obvious mistake that the loved one would never in a million years have made themselves? I can see how people can have concerns at least, when control it taken away.

fatfingerd 3y ago
I think you should expect to die if you spend a lot of time on the road. Does it matter what bug the driver has that runs you down?
- talldatethrow 3y ago
  Get over yourself. If you don't speed, don't drink and drive, and don't road rage, the odds of dying on the road are not that bad. Riding a motorcycle is 60x more dangerous than a car per mile. I have easily done over 100,000 miles on a sportsbike in California traffic. That's the equivalent of 6 Million miles in a car. I have had one close call in 10 years. Never even stubbed a toe on a motorcycle.
  - fatfingerd 3y ago
    > Get over yourself. I consider ceasing to interpret my own survivor bias as skill instead of luck, getting over myself.
    - talldatethrow 3y ago
      Are you denying that skill exists in the world? But beyond that, not speeding, not drinking and driving/riding, and not raging on the road are not exactly 'skills'. But honestly, I am a pretty skilled rider. I just don't have to use most of it on the road... I said myself I only had one close call in 10 years. Only that moment really involved skill.

1letterunixname 3y ago

It's called Dunning-Kruger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect The smart and the wise seek automation and others to multiply their effort. The lazy and the less molecular wedge-like instruments do things the hard way(tm) themselves. It doesn't take a particle physics PhD to be resourceful, improvisational, and productive.