thomblake comments on Individual Rationality Is a Matter of Life and Death - Less Wrong

24 Post author: patrissimo 21 March 2009 07:22PM

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Comment author: thomblake 02 April 2009 01:23:10PM 1 point [-]

Yes, but humans also have all sorts of weird failure modes. We're not looking for perfection here, just better than humans.

Comment author: ciphergoth 02 April 2009 01:44:18PM 2 points [-]

In this instance "weird failure mode" means "incident causing many deaths at once, probable enough to be a significant risk factor but rare enough that it takes a lot more autonomous miles in much more realistic circumstances to measure who the safer driver is".

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 April 2009 01:57:26PM 3 points [-]

Yup, humans have weird failure modes but they don't occur all over the country simultaneously at 3:27pm on Wednesday.