Post #1620394

2026-03-18 03:48 UTC

LOL this is the problem with relying on AI tools, as well... "...His core argument: Tesla is asking humans to supervise a system that is specifically designed to make supervision feel pointless. As he puts it, an unreliable machine keeps you alert, and a perfect machine needs no oversight, but one that works almost perfectly creates a trap where drivers trust it just enough to stop paying attention. The research backs this up. Psychologists call it the “vigilance decrement”, monitoring a nearly perfect system is boring, boredom leads to mind-wandering, and drivers need 5 to 8 seconds to mentally reengage after an automated system hands control back. But emergencies unfold faster than that...." #AI

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@SuperMoosie@mastodon.au 2026-03-18 03:58

@ai6yr Snap! https://mastodon.au/@SuperMoosie/116246839548001282

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@whybird@aus.social 2026-03-18 04:14

@ai6yr It’s the exact opposite of the Tullock's spike thought experiment. “…in which Tullock suggested that if governments were serious about reducing road casualties, they should mandate that a sharp spike be installed in the center of each car's steering wheel, to increase the probability that an accident would be fatal to the driver. Tullock's idea was that the normal process of risk compensation would then lead to safer driving by the affected drivers, thereby actually reducing driving fatalities.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Tullock?wprov=sfti1#Tullock's_spike

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@johannab@cosocial.ca 2026-03-18 04:20

@ai6yr every time This publication comes to mind: https://how.complexsystems.fail As does a Human Factors lecture I attended last century (ugh) on the amount of money spent on psychological research to make fighter plane cockpits human-goof-proof, ON TOP of the extended, intense, and repeated training pilots go through. One of the points in the early 90's was cars were becoming too complex for mere untrained humans to cope with, with next to no thought about the human-tech interface required.

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