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After some meditation, I don't find this line of inquiry to bear fruit: I don't recall any entity, nor the entities named (Uber / self-driving cars) talking ab
by refulgentis 3y ago
After some meditation, I don't find this line of inquiry to bear fruit:
I don't recall any entity, nor the entities named (Uber / self-driving cars) talking about the trolley problem - that's a well-known thought experiment in philosophy, but not something covered as a stark binary choice in self-driving cars planner systems.
I also don't recall traffic cones being a very difficult problem beyond Cruise + cones on windshield in SF. I have no love for Cruise. But its straightforward to pause if there's a large object on the windshield.
I don't think Corey's observation w/r/t A) loss-making companies over years B) focusing investors towards speculative advancements that would make their current business model profitable without changing applies here, OpenAI is _very_ successful.
After all that, I'm left at "Corey would take a bit of offense towards their thoughts on corporate responsibility via 'Uber is a predatory massively unprofitable company lying about odds they'll invent self-driving via talking about trolley problem' misshapen to critique a very profitable company funding fundamental research in the interest of safety that would be needed if their current rate of improvement continues.
- cma 3y ago> I also don't recall traffic cones being a very difficult problem beyond Cruise + cones on windshield in SF. I have no love for Cruise. But its straightforward to pause if there's a large object on the windshield. Waymo had a big mistake with cones where a lane was blocked off for construction and they thought it was the inverse and started driving down the blocked off side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4O9QfUE5uI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4O9QfUE5uI full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdKCQKBvH-A&t=12m24s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdKCQKBvH-A&t=12m24s In the statement before that timestamp they say some of it was caused by remote operator error. But it seems to have enough problems with cones to need an operator in the first place, and you can see the planner is wrong. I think Cruise would be using a human or at least summoning one to oversee in any situation with unexpected cones, based on what they have said about how often they use remote assistance too.