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but at the last second the loogie curved and landed on your shirt instead

This started as a reply to this good post and kind of grew to be only slightly related, so I'm making it its own post.

a few years ago someone made me notice the "hidden constraints" people have for solving problems and how most of the time we don't even notice they're there until someone points them out.

Alas, Capitalism

Cartoon with two techbros in the cab an old timey steam locomotive, shovelling stacks of cash into the furnace. One turns to the other "Quick, we're running out, go grab drinks with some more idiot vulture capitalists in the first class wagons!"

Like, I've seen both The Atlantic and disappointingly, Ars Technica write fawning "self-driving cars are so safe!" articles recently, and I feel like I'm seeing the ripples on the surface that indicate a monster PR campaign has begun swimming in the deep.

The main thing that both of them say that I HATE is "we have to give them access to public roads in order to improve, because these could be so much safer than human drivers", and first off, no we don't, we do not have any obligation to any private company to provide access to a public good so they can monetize it. We do not have to do that.

And second, this is a false binary. The choice is not exclusively between "human driven cars" and "robot driven cars". You are foreclosing so many better, more interesting futures by narrowing your imagination in that way. Please be mildly curious about things being Different.

ah, The Techbro Capitalists are at it again, buying that false normalisation of their bullshit to make more money