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> Are you saying you don't understand why unexpected behavior causes anxiety? It's a pretty well documented effect, from rats to humans. I'm saying that your l
by adwn 3y ago
> Are you saying you don't understand why unexpected behavior causes anxiety? It's a pretty well documented effect, from rats to humans.
I'm saying that your leap from "the car in front is behaving unexpectedly because you don't have all the information it has" to "a bunch of mentally ill drivers" is such a complete non-sequitur that it's deserving of a Wat [1].
[1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
- bumby 3y agoI understand how you could miss it, but the sequiter is "unexpected behavior". Why do mentally ill people cause some people anxiety? Because they may behave erratically.* In other words, we have a lot more difficulty ascertaining what they are thinking, and by extension, predicting their behavior. The same can be said for the general public sentiment towards AVs. * I also understand "mental illness" is a blanket category and I'm not using it as a stigmatizing term. It may be stretching the analogy too much, but it's simply a proxy for "I have a hard time predicting what's going through this persons mind"