The post tries to use this to make an analogy about self-driving cars. I think this analogy is deeply misplaced. It's both easier and a qualitatively different

The post tries to use this to make an analogy about self-driving cars. I think this analogy is deeply misplaced. It's both easier and a qualitatively different problem to bootstrap a neural network with a known good automated method like chess-playing than to solve a novel problem like car-driving in the real world (Which is not just much quantifiably harder, but also nebulously harder in some big "unknown unknowns" kinda ways) A cursory glance through my posts would imply that maybe I just like big buts, and, I cannot lie, I often find myself having to play a contrarian in the credulous world of tech. However, the but is necessary here. We gotta stop giving that dude and people like him more money for just spewing grift. He's already captured enough of the world's infrastructure to make unilateral decisions that win or lose battles on distant warfronts on a whim