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monocle_layton on 17 August 2017
Flilix said:
monocle_layton said:
Also, it's nice to to see this thread not turn into a bashfest or a war. Granted, the toxic users haven't commented yet, but I still feel relieved a bit to see this be an actual discussion

Most political threads start calm and civil, with people reacting to the topic. But after a while, it either dies or turns into a endless discussion.

Issue is that (insert group of people everyone knows I'm talking about) are usually the ones starting issues. 

Whenever anyone says some dumbass comment like "lol religion of peace" or anything obnoxious, they always ruin the conversation. It's flaming/baiting in my eyes, but unfortunately the issue won't stop until it's given attention. 

New users who see people like that probably get turned off and avoid the place. I don't want that happening.



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Dallinor on 17 August 2017
TallSilhouette said:
Dallinor said:

Whoa, I like the idea, but that would have so many problems.

Imagine a person walking on to a motorway in that scenario.

Or people learning the break distance and simply walking across roads at anytime/point potenially causing a litany of other accidents.

An outside influence that can force stop a tonne of fast moving metal is not nessecarily going to make things safer.

Many luxury vehicles already have this feature (Teslas, for example). They're not perfect, but they haven't been a problem yet and have saved several lives.

Sure, but the fraction of cars with this feature is currently tiny. I'm envisoning a scenario with a huge number of these vehicles on roads, and how pedestrians will co-exist. Don't underestimate human stupidity and a willingness to mess with new technology.

There's already plenty of documented cases of human drivers deliberately driving in front of tesla vehicles aware of the knowledge that they will have to emergency force break. 

I think it will work well the more advanced AI becomes (20 years from now maybe) but, I can definitely imagine some teething pains.



 

TallSilhouette on 17 August 2017
Dallinor said:
TallSilhouette said:

Many luxury vehicles already have this feature (Teslas, for example). They're not perfect, but they haven't been a problem yet and have saved several lives.

Sure, but the fraction of cars with this feature is currently tiny. I'm envisoning a scenario with a huge number of these vehicles on roads, and how pedestrians will co-exist. Don't underestimate human stupidity and a willingness to mess with new technology.

There's already plenty of documented cases of human drivers deliberately driving in front of tesla vehicles aware of the knowledge that they will have to emergency force break. 

I think it will work well the more advanced AI becomes (20 years from now maybe) but, I can definitely imagine some teething pains.

Then you really enforce jaywalking penalties. ;)



Locknuts on 17 August 2017

Religion of peace?



ratuscafoarterea on 17 August 2017
Locknuts said:
Religion of peace?

Well, ISIS is celebrating ….. so yes, the “religion of peace”

Btw, bro, why are you so toxic? You know, put on the blinkers and fallow the crowd ….

 



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ArchangelMadzz on 17 August 2017
JRPGfan said:
mZuzek said:

I wouldn't call this a wonderful era. Maybe it's because I was younger and more oblivious to stuff in general, but I feel like the world was a much safer and more peaceful place 10-15 years ago (well, at least the city where I live it definitely was). I'm happy with my own life and honestly 2017 has been probably the best year for me as it brought with it a good bunch of awesome games and movies (and is still bringing them), but outside of the artistic world it has been shit for sure.

^ so much this.

Back in the 90-00's, movies didnt have as much violence, kids people didnt curse as much, and there wherent all these crazy muslims running around attacking people.

To be fair statistically the world is the safest it's ever been. Terrorism has risen but overal safety and threat is way way down. 



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monocle_layton on 17 August 2017
Mar1217 said:
monocle_layton said:

Issue is that (insert group of people everyone knows I'm talking about) are usually the ones starting issues. 

Whenever anyone says some dumbass comment like "lol religion of peace" or anything obnoxious, they always ruin the conversation. It's flaming/baiting in my eyes, but unfortunately the issue won't stop until it's given attention. 

New users who see people like that probably get turned off and avoid the place. I don't want that happening.

Perfect, I'm gonna call Nato and Soundwave :P

No need - they have already arrived.

Time to 'nope' out of here.



Flilix on 17 August 2017

monocle_layton said:

 Whenever anyone says some dumbass comment like "lol religion of peace" or anything obnoxious, they always ruin the conversation.
Locknuts said:
Religion of peace?



ratuscafoarterea on 17 August 2017
Flilix said:

monocle_layton said:

 Whenever anyone says some dumbass comment like "lol religion of peace" or anything obnoxious, they always ruin the conversation.
Locknuts said:
Religion of peace?

:p

I agree, resorting to name-calling while expecting to have a civilized conversation, it’s a little bit of nonsense.  



monocle_layton on 17 August 2017
ratuscafoarterea said:
Flilix said:

:p

I agree, resorting to name-calling while expecting to have a civilized conversation, it’s a little bit of nonsense.  

 

I'm sure they won't mind. After all, they're always fine with calling me a 'weak' sjw liberal. Weren't they the ones who say words shouldn't offend others?