Comment by nonethewiser
14 hours ago
It's a double edged sword. If it can lead the uninformed down the wrong path faster, it can lead the informed down the right path faster. It's not only fast in one direction.
14 hours ago
It's a double edged sword. If it can lead the uninformed down the wrong path faster, it can lead the informed down the right path faster. It's not only fast in one direction.
I believe the author of gas town is very informed, having been a professional software developer for some time. And the premise of the above comment is that he did, despite this, go down the wrong path.
The informed and uninformed are not mutually exclusive groups. Everyone is one and then the other depending on the time. To varying degrees of course.
The difference between light-up arrows pointing the way "forward" for a car turning onto the expressway the wrong way, and doing so with the possibility humans might see and attempt to flag them down before they're too far to turn around.
People will make mistakes, and AI holding their hand and guiding them while they do it can have disastrous consequences.
But it's nice that the arrows will appear to also guide people going the right way I guess.