Stupid Questions September 2015

polymathwannabe

This thread is for asking any questions that might seem obvious, tangential, silly or what-have-you. Don't be shy, everyone has holes in their knowledge, though the fewer and the smaller we can make them, the better.

Please be respectful of other people's admitting ignorance and don't mock them for it, as they're doing a noble thing.

To any future monthly posters of SQ threads, please remember to add the "stupid_questions" tag.

Please be respectful of other people's admitting ignorance and don't mock them for it, as they're doing a noble thing.

To any future monthly posters of SQ threads, please remember to add the "stupid_questions" tag.

Why would you want to deskill yourself like that?

Reminds me of your enthusiasm for sexbots. Apparently in your version of the future with self-driving cars and sexbots, you will turn a whole lot of adolescent boys into adult men who don't know how to drive and who have no clue how to get into organic sexual relationships with women.

At least I know how to drive.

I suppose from a certain point of view all technology is a conspiracy to turn men into boys, and I'm not sure if that's a bad thing :-)

18ShardPhoenix11y

Not sure about the sexbots, but I predict that in my lifetime (ie maybe another 40 years) knowing how to drive will become about as relevant for most people as knowing how to ride a horse. I do think it's still a bit too soon to be thinking about buying a driverless car though.