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An open letter to the Tesla fan who wants to run over a kid

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Re: An open letter to the Tesla fan who wants to run over a kid

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post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

get a new pharmacist

I’m not the one hallucinating that AI acts with deliberate malicious intent. Maybe you should get that checked out.

I didn't say or even imply any ai had any intent.

We're talking about whoever wants to stick a kid in front of a car, not the car. Holy cow.

Re: An open letter to the Tesla fan who wants to run over a kid

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post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m not the one hallucinating that AI acts with deliberate malicious intent. Maybe you should get that checked out.

I didn't say or even imply any ai had any intent. We're talking about whoever wants to stick a kid in front of a car, not the car . Holy cow.

That's not what I was talking about. I was responding to the person who implied that self-driving cars need to be completely error-free, which is an unattainable standard, and far beyond what human drivers are capable of. There will still be traffic accidents with self-driving cars, but hopefully far fewer. Holding them to an unrealistic standard of 0 errors would needlessly kill thousands of people.

It's pretty clear that nobody was ever going to put a kid in front of their Tesla, and The Verge and everyone here is being deliberately obtuse to indulge their Tesla/Musk hate.

Re: An open letter to the Tesla fan who wants to run over a kid

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The person in question has already written a response to the open letter: https://twitter.com/WholeMarsBlog/status/1558122848601812993

Does a proximity to Elon Musk make people forget that optics are a thing? Yeah this is a dumb joke, making a dumb joke about running over children still makes you look like an asshole.

Trolling on the internet for fun has been a thing long before Musk, and will be a thing long after.
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