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What an idiot. It’s an airplane obviously it has to fly up into the air and then down again
Well the shortest path is a drilling submarine to go through two continents and the bottom of an ocean. Unfortunately it will take aproximately 87 years to get there this way.
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This reminds me of a Mad Magazine comic from the 1960s (or 70s I don’t remember) that had a secret agent or someone like that use a computer to ‘calculate the fastest route to his destination’ and it drives him through every building in the city since that would be a straight line…
Some shit doesn’t change.
Really shows the limits of AI. It’s orders of magnitude faster to go through the Earth.
So like the Hyperloop where every passenger sits in their own Tesla and rides along at low speeds? Like the log flume but incredibly stupid.
So they’re gonna build a tunnel through the earth the plane can fly through, to go in a straight line, right?
Maybe the plane could be on tracks for safety?
Air drag wastes so much fuel. Put the plane in a pipe under a near vacuum.
This is so wrong. The fastest route is going west from LA to Paris, because that will make you go back in time. By the time you land in Paris, it’s the previous day!!
Surely we should have AI pilots by now.
It would make all flights much faster…
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… because the plane would crash well before reaching the destination.
Can’t wait for some tech bro to create self-flying planes that are actually just a terrible version of the current autopilot that claims autonomy but crashes half the planes.
Then they will blame air traffic controllers for the crashes for not adapting to the self flying planes or some other bullshit.
I’d be impressed if they created anything close to flying. My money is on them making “ground planes” and it’s just a shittier train for the millionth time
Reminds me of that hyperloop dogshit…
But who will reinflate Otto if we get rid of the crew?
Actually automated starts, landing and flight are all pretty old tech. The reason planes are still piloted/supervised by humans is the same reason why the “autonomous taxis” are still remotely supervised and controlled by humans – there will be a situation the autopilot cannot handle.
Yeah, that’s another layer of the joke: tech bros trying to shove AI were there is already a working solution in place which is more reliable.
This path requires a plane with a drill head mounted on its nose.
Nah, the AI must have figured out how to shift the plane’s matter out of phase the the rest of the earth’s matter so it can slip straight through.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Phasing_cloaking_device
anyone have contacts at Delta?
My dear brother in Christ, there’s a reason that you don’t
please be a joke
AI is also flat earth dummy then
ceo at posthog
Now that’s a deep cut. I haven’t heard the posthog meme in forever.
Wow!
With AI you can be just as wrong as you are without it, but also destroy the earth and be told you’re a good boy by a souless mechanism… Yay
This is fucking awesome thanks for sharing
I feel like this is one of the things AI would actually understand. Since it a problem which is solved very frequently. AI would get tripped up by creative thinking.
This post is now in the training data.
(Generative) AI wouldn’t understand, because (generative) AI does not understand.
When is the next all life on Earth killing asteroid collision again?
Sorry man, meteor said “Fuck that” when he saw us
damn. imagine being so underwhelming a planet killing asteroid bails on you? like holy shit are we fucked
