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.
Fuck it's on my phone now, how do I delete it!? I'm so sorry I didn't mean to steal it I swear!!!
I have traced your internet IP protocol address back to your IP home address, using AI.
Expect a letter from my lawyer soon!
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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!!
please be a joke
AI does not believe in the round Earth hoax. 🤷♀️
AI is also flat earth dummy then
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.
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
But who will reinflate Otto if we get rid of the crew?
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
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?
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/
ceo at posthog
Now that's a deep cut. I haven't heard the posthog meme in forever.
anyone have contacts at Delta?
My dear brother in Christ, there's a reason that you don't
This is a joke from Cobra Kai
All you need is to dig a straight-line tunnel through Earth for the planes to fly through.
Elon is already on it.
It took me a minute too long to realize that the white parts of the map were land and the grey ones were water.
I need my morning tea before I keep scrolling...
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.
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