tgb comments on The autopilot problem: driving without experience - Less Wrong

23 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 13 May 2013 12:42PM

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Comment author: tgb 13 May 2013 05:53:48PM 4 points [-]

Only the cruise control link is an actual comparison of automation+overseer versus just humans. The rest given are examples of automation+overseer failing but there are of course examples of just humans failing just as badly. Is there any further evidence of this phenomenon? In particular, is there evidence that the total success rate decreases as the success rate of the automation increases?

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 13 May 2013 09:47:52PM -1 points [-]

Well, if you're willing to extend automation to cover automatic pricing from a specific set of equations, then we have the recent financial crisis...