• exanime@lemmy.today
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    6 months ago

    Hmmm I get you point but you seem to be taken the cavalier position of one who’d never be affected.

    Let’s proposed this alternative scenario: AI is 50% safer and would reduce death from 40k to 20k a year if adopted. However, the 20k left will include your family and, unfortunately , there is no accountability therefore, nobody will pay to help raise your orphan nephew or help grandma now that your grandpa died ran over by a Tesla… Would you approve AI driving going forward?

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      6 months ago

      Yes, unless you mean I need to literally sacrifice my family. But if my family was randomly part of the 20k, I’d defend self-driving cars if they are proven to be safer.

      I’m very much a statistics-based person, so I’ll defend the statistically better option. In fact, me being part of that 20k gives me a larger than usual platform to discuss it.

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        6 months ago

        No, I do mean literally your family. Not because I’m trying to be mean to you, I’m just trying to highlight you’d agree with a contract when you think the price does not apply to you… But in reality the price will apply to someone, whether they agree with the contract and enjoy the benefits or not

        It’s the exact same situation with real life with the plane manufacturers. They lobby the government to allow recalls not to be done immediately but instead on the regular maintenance of the planes. This is to save money but it literally means that some planes are put there with known defects that will not be addressed for months (or years, depending on the maintenance needed)

        Literally, people who’d never have a loved one in one of those flights decided that was acceptable to save money. They agreed, it’s ok to put your life at risk, statistically, because they want more money

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          6 months ago

          If there are 20k deaths vs 40k, my family is literally twice as safe on the road, why wouldn’t I take that deal?

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              6 months ago

              The proposition is stupid. If you told me that ALL future accidents will be prevented if I agree to kill my family, I would still not do it, that’s just a bad faith trolley problem. Let’s alone just recuding it by half.

              I reduced it to a more realistic experiment, where my family migth be killed, with the same probability as any other.

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                6 months ago

                The proposition is stupid.

                Oh the depth of reasoning in social media

                If you told me that ALL future accidents will be prevented if I agree to kill my family, I would still not do it

                That is exactly the point… Anyone would be 100% happy taking any proposition as long as they don’t have to pay the cost. I was just trying to highlight that

                In this case, it was all about liability… We have not even come close to prove the current driverless tech is actually better than people’s skills… We all know that automated driving should be safer but we have no clue if we are even taking the right steps.to get there

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                  6 months ago

                  But I am paying the cost. I accept that my family might be killed in an accident, with the same probability as anyone else.

                  If that’s your point, that a stupid point, and you should do better.

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                    6 months ago

                    Again if you are not willing to engage in a discussion where there is more nuance than black vs one, move along