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From the article: "The first rule of riding in Google's self-driving car, says Dmitri Dolgov, is not to compliment Google's self-driving car. (...) I have just
by Holbein 12y ago
From the article: "The first rule of riding in Google's self-driving car, says Dmitri Dolgov, is not to compliment Google's self-driving car. (...) I have just announced that so far the trip has been "amazingly smooth." "The car knows," says Dolgov."
I'd say considering remarkably complex work, compliments are absolutely justified. Why shouldn't we compliment a creator of a for a job well done anymore? What's wrong with these people?
- minimax 12y agoThe point is not to jinx it. It's not about about not giving credit where credit is due.
- epi8 12y agoIt's just a superstition. I give demos all the time, and I hate it when I do a test run and people tell me how awesome it's working. Tell me afterwards, you'll jinx it if you tell me before. It doesn't actually work that way, but hot damn it feels like it does. And the demos I give don't put anyone's lives at risk!
- kristiandupont 12y agoI read that to mean that the car knows and handles compliments poorly, i.e. an obvious joke.