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NYC Mayor Eric Adams greenlights self-driving cars. Now considering the theory that Adams is an LLM gone rogue. (gazette.com)

submitted 8 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] kautau@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He’s not wrong though. Tech isn’t being developed to improve people’s lives. It’s being developed to deepen pockets. There is a very low chance of a future in which NY becomes some “old school holdout championing people’s rights against the tyranny of self driving cars,” so better to work on regulation, adoption, and putting systems in place now to provide the best public benefit rather than either banning it outright until market forces overwhelm that, or ignoring regulation and letting market forces dictate what rules would be in place there (hint: none). Hate capitalism, not the Mayor that is trying to plan ahead for the city

[–] 200fifty@awful.systems 12 points 8 months ago

I mean, you say this as though Banning Self Driving Cars is some controversial policy action, rather than just literally the current state of the law in most areas. The point is that it's weird to legalize them when they're not ready for prime time just because you figure "the future is coming," because usually we make laws around technology based on how the technology works in the real world, not how we figure it'll probably work in the hypothetical inevitable magic techno-future.