Use this tool to make an azimuthal projection from your location. It's really trippy. It helps you better make sense of routes like these. https://ns6t.net/azimuth/
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AI is also flat earth dummy then
When is the next all life on Earth killing asteroid collision again?
Sorry man, meteor said "Fuck that" when he saw us
This is a joke from Cobra Kai
please be a joke
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.
ceo at posthog
Now that's a deep cut. I haven't heard the posthog meme in forever.
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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for anybody wondering why airlines use curvy flight paths: it’s because most flight paths were made before AI
I propose a new formula for calculating them:
flight path + AI
new_flight_path = length_of_flight - (AI * 2)
Just a little snippet of what can be done with ai....
This code is PROTECTED and I WILL SUE. This is NOT under a public license.
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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.
Surprised how many people don’t realize this is satire
The bar is too low, hard to tell now
Poe's law is in full force in this age of "AI".
Yeah, it's hard for us fluent in sarcasm to actually understand those that struggle with it - like wdym you can't tell? Even the sentences are set up as a joke.
I've learned to add "/s" at the end but it icks me every time.
We live in a post-truth era, with confidently-incorrect people all around. Too many people without a care for reason, facts, and how reality works have ideas that are able to gain traction in public.
Look at anti-vaxxers. Look at flat-earthers. Look at Trump winning a second time.
Although I pegged this post as sarcasm at the start (the guy’s job title gives it away), I’ve heard equally ridiculous statements from real people before. Sadly, I can’t fault people for assuming honest stupidity if that’s what they’re accustomed to encountering.
you severely underestimate how many people say the stupidest shit and mean it completely sincerely lmao
Poe's law. People aren't dumb, they just know that there are dumb people out there
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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!!
Really shows the limits of AI. It’s orders of magnitude faster to go through the Earth.
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Surely we should have AI pilots by now.
It would make all flights much faster...
spoiler
... because the plane would crash well before reaching the destination.
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.
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
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No way this isn't a joke, right?
Yes it's a joke. His page is full of satirical AI-themed shitposts
Every time I think that, I'm wrong. So at this point I'm just going to assume it's legit and be pleasantly surprised if proven otherwise.
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Techbrah! Techbruh...
The earth is round and other things besides efficiency influence the decision of flight paths for example active warzones and malicious countries
And flying over less water in case of mechanical failure.
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.
(Generative) AI wouldn't understand, because (generative) AI does not understand.
This post is now in the training data.
AI does not believe in the round Earth hoax. 🤷♀️
I think you'd be surprised how many people can't comprehend this without showing them a globe lol.
I think you'd be surprised how many people can't comprehend this even with a globe
anyone have contacts at Delta?
My dear brother in Christ, there's a reason that you don't
Pilot here. This man is a fucking idiot.
Normally I'd think this was satirical, but these days nothing surprises me.
This is clearly Ryanair, notice how they don't actually arrive at the correct destination?
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