Les OrchardI'm probably off by orders of magnitude, but sometimes I wonder if rather than all the money & effort spent on self-driving AI it wouldn't have been cheaper & easier to just run more rails everywhere
Dan HonDid you see the argument put forward that eg no investment should be made at all in high speed rail in California because of the imminent disruption by autonomous vehicles? @lmorchard
Michal Migurski 🍉@Danhon @lmorchard We should really be doing both. AVs may become a thing at some point in the future and it’d be wise to have that technical expertise here instead of elsewhere, while rails are a known-known that can help move actual people.
Mike, we should do neither. We’ve already demonstrated quantum teleportation of multi-bit state across kilometers, it’s only a matter of time until we have total quantum state matter transportation at the hot/wet scale and *that’s* the real disruption...
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