If you’ve ever lived in Jersey you’ll get it.
Turnpike
Parkway
Expressway
78
80
287
195
295
Bumpers locked tighter than NASCAR but turns in both directions. Don’t blink. Don’t brake.
Here’s a survival tip…
Draft a semi. Find a skilled pro and shadow him. He will run interference through traffic because he is higher than you, can see farther than you. And he stops much slower than you — so if things pile up you’ve got an offensive lineman.
How do you know he’s skilled?
Owner/operator with a clean truck. Consistently above the speed limit. When he passes he glues the driver side wheels to the left lane line and moves decisively, never lingering alongside another semi.
“Brilliant.
Like a guitar version of the German group Harmonia.”
(DavidH via YouTube)
Earth’s entire existence, the only form of autonomous decision making has been carbon-based. Every life form, every sentient organism, has always been carbon-based.
The ladybug (Hippodamia convergens) exploring my laptop screen, the eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) gathering acorns near my porch, the oak tree blowing in the remnants of Hurricane Melissa, the turkey vultures (Cathartes aura) also enjoying the winds in the blue October sky above, my dog curled peacefully on her bed in the next room — carbon-based.
I am carbon-based.
You are carbon-based.
Every extinct species was carbon-based.
Flora & fauna, together we carbon-based life forms create a complex system with all of us making decisions based on the simple will to survive. Because we seek to live, our patterns are predictable enough that each species finds a niche within this beautiful blue Darwinian organic recycling system slinging through space.
Will a silicon-based autonomous decision-maker value carbon-based life?