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This is why I always try to brake early and long. Nothing annoys me more than drivers leaving it to the very last second, giving the person behind them as little time to react as possible.
This is also why I don't like to engine brake on the freeway.
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My point was in how we frame these things--the human relationship to technology. Specifically, it's about how we can raise the important point that humans can be made safer by technology, without it being a value statement about the human race.
I don't know how one can relate how good humans are at a task with how good a state-of-the-art machine is at a task without making some sort of value statement about the human race. Either way there is a huge difference between "I'm fine with hurting people's feelings" and "I'm fine with killing people"
Those aren't the choices.
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People also create computers. In any case, your argument would be extremely effective--if my argument was that people are infallible.
Who cares? SJW identity politics is not an argument, it's a trolling opinion.
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Because certain types of technical advancement requires an element of devaluing people. "Calculator" used to be a job performed exclusively by humans. Moving to mechanical & digital calculators didn't only require gains in efficiency, but also a recognition that this was a job humans were simply worse at than machines, so it was irresponsible to task a human with it. Similarly self-driving cars can't simply be a nice…
People tend to hate on anything which threatens their job/identity, even if it rationalizes not addressing preventable causes of million of injuries and deaths. That is the definition of a SJW.