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I was imagining the human would write it

Optimist: if anyone can generate a movie with a snap of the fingers, the best-written ones will emerge on top and we’ll have a glut of amazingly-written movies.

More likely: it’s all going to be slop.

Tariffs causing price increase would be good for me politically

This is actually an easy thing to do – usually. But you might get unlucky with the wrong hardware, as perhaps OP did.

I don’t know anything about how autonomous vehicles work. As far as humans doing unusual things, well assuming the human driver only steers the wheel and controls the gas and breaks, it should be possible with existing technology to avoid crashing into them at least as well as any human can. So that leaves really unusual things, like the human hopping out of their car in the middle of an intersection, as the high-hanging fruit to model. I would imagine for most of these really strange cases, even if the autonomous vehicle can’t understand what’s happening, they can at least realize that something strange is happening and then pull over.

Obviously there will be truly unusual situations that cause fatal collisions. So long as that is at a lower rate, then what’s the safety concern?

Safety is a red herring IMO, as better code can fix it. There are much worse potential problems that autonomous vehicles will cause than rare collisions. NotJustBikes has a lot of points I’d never considered before in the second half of this video. (The first half, though, I found aggravating; it’s just about solvable safety risks.)

Ah. Sorry. There are some truly braindead takes on autonomous vehicles so I couldn’t tell that apart from what some people have said earnestly. My bad. 👍

Okay, I’m sorry. Let me clarify how it’s easy to account for the kind of bias you’re talking about. Simply divide by the population count. So, they divided the waymo crash count by the number of waymos, and the human crash count by the number of humans. This gives the waymo crash rate and the human crash rate. (In reality, it’s a bit more complicated, since the human crash rate is calculated independently each year.)

They accounted for that in this report. I believe you are a troll.

it’s hard to change humans. It’s easy to roll out a firmware update.

I don’t see why that is necessary, as different posts could be hosted on different instances. Either way, the choice of instance is of little concern for me as an end user, so it should be de-emphasized.

I think we might be talking past each other. I understand that not every instance is federated with every other instance, and that there are differences between the instances.

Each instance is one piece in a larger mosaic – but looking for niche interests inside one particular instance is a bad venn diagram. The choice of instance should be of secondary consideration when it comes to niche interests. I barely care from what instance someone hails if they’re giving me cooking advice. This is why we have federation in the first place – it just needs to be a smoother experience.

When I want to post about metroid, I want to reach everyone on lemmy who is interested in metroid. I understand that people are not homogenous. On reddit, I expect a range of opinions. Different instances perhaps serve to adjust the distribution from a smooth continuum to something more lumpy. Perhaps there is value in that, but I think it’s outweighed by the value in reaching a larger portion of lemmy.

I’m not asking that we centralize communites to be hosted on a single instance. I’m asking that communities with the same name on multiple instances appear to the user to be merged. In this way, a community can grow and benefit from network effects, but no one instance controls the community.

Federation should be the point. I didn’t join Lemmy to join yet another reddit-like service but with far fewer users. I joined it because I want to be on something like reddit but which no one group controls. Otherwise I’d use threads, bluesky, etc.

It’s a good question. Perhaps nobody needs to control it. Users of c/foo post on their own instance (or choose an instance to post on). Mods are responsible for posts on their own instances (as before). The difference is that when viewing c/foo, you see posts from all federated instances.

For news, politics, etc, which might cause trouble if combined, here’s a solution: Perhaps if your instance’s c/foo community has the “keep separated” flag enabled, then users on your instance browsing c/foo won’t see posts from other instances, and users on federated instances won’t see your instance’s c/foo posts when browsing c/foo.

Right, so, in some circumstances it wouldn’t necessarily be a good idea to join identically-named communities.

Maybe it should be more like the multireddit idea – people have to manually set up the links between the communities.

I think the benefit of federation is that nobody controls the whole ecosystem. The downside of federation is splintering.

Look, this is just my take – I think this is bad UX. I’m not saying federation isn’t a good idea – on the contrary, I like the idea that many different posts in the same community are all hosted on different instances. Sure, for a community like news it doesn’t make as much sense – fixes for this would be that some communities don’t have the behaviour I’m suggesting, or the convention is to call it sao_luis_news or something.