• affiliate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    147·
    3 days ago

    for anybody wondering why airlines use curvy flight paths: it’s because most flight paths were made before AI

    • Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      3 days ago

      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.

    • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      394·
      3 days ago

      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.

      • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        3 days ago

        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.

      • JandroDelSol@lemmy.worldEnglish
        19·
        3 days ago

        you severely underestimate how many people say the stupidest shit and mean it completely sincerely lmao

    • QuantumStorm@lemmy.worldEnglish
      141·
      3 days ago

      If I had read his titles under the name I would have gotten it, but I’ve seen way to many Ai bros on linked in posting dumb shit like this and being serious.

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      713·
      3 days ago

      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.

    • Caketaco@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      371·
      3 days ago

      Nope, it’s real, the hedge honcho himself is going to revolutionize the flight industry with these new Elelems. It’s the future, and he’s hedging it.

    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
      66·
      3 days ago

      People openly admitting to using ai to draw a straight line are not exactly what one would call intellectually adventurous.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
        9·
        3 days ago

        Which is precisely why I’m pretty confident it’s a joke. Anyone stupid enough to actually think of this wouldn’t need an AI to do it they’d have drawn a straight line themselves.

  • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.onlineEnglish
    45·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
    37·
    3 days ago

    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!!

    • crank0271@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      3 days ago

      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.