Pre-car safety review thought experiment: maybe the singularity won't be so bad
bradneuberg · x · 2026-11-10
Quoted thread by Andrew McCalip imagines running a safety review for cars before cars existed: operators texting and eating McDonald's at 70 mph, 25 gallons of flammable liquid on board, training just enough to pass a short test at 16, nothing but paint separating you from oncoming traffic — "anyway, it mostly works." His takeaway: hardly anything ends up as bad as imagined, so maybe the singularity won't be as bad as it could be. Brad Neuberg shared it with "never doom / have faith."
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