Bot traffic has surpassed humans on the Internet. The winners in the next infrastructure cycle are the companies building trust rails for machines: agent identity, intent verification, API-native content delivery.
Kind of like how our highways weren’t meant for hundreds of thousands of semi trailers on them every day, but we just keep jamming more fucking trucks on the road. Humans will just overdo something until there is a catastrophic failure, sometimes they keep doing it after that.
I think it’s a disturbing function of human group behavior. One human can be smart. Humans en masse seem to groupthink ourselves into self-affirming decisions
We thought the fauna of the plains of Africa were so plentiful they could never go extinct, until we drove a number of them to extinction
We thought the ocean was so vast that the solution to pollution was dilution, until we created garbage islands and watched corals die off
We thought we were too small to affect the global climate, until we started watching anthropogenic climate change.
Yeah I’m not sure exactly what the solution is since it’s obviously a problem that has plagued mankind since the beginning. We’ll figure it out some day, or not.
Funny, I’d rather have more trailers and leave the roads to them and make sure people have good transport like subways, rails, etc. you’re always going to have a last-mile issue you can’t solve with mass transit so that works better for me.
Yeah, I would rather that too honestly, it makes a lot more sense, but I suppose my main point was they should be on a separate system than commuters, whatever that may :)
Kind of like how our highways weren’t meant for hundreds of thousands of semi trailers on them every day, but we just keep jamming more fucking trucks on the road. Humans will just overdo something until there is a catastrophic failure, sometimes they keep doing it after that.
Tragedy of the commons.
I think it’s a disturbing function of human group behavior. One human can be smart. Humans en masse seem to groupthink ourselves into self-affirming decisions
We thought the fauna of the plains of Africa were so plentiful they could never go extinct, until we drove a number of them to extinction
We thought the ocean was so vast that the solution to pollution was dilution, until we created garbage islands and watched corals die off
We thought we were too small to affect the global climate, until we started watching anthropogenic climate change.
We just never fucking learn.
Yeah I’m not sure exactly what the solution is since it’s obviously a problem that has plagued mankind since the beginning. We’ll figure it out some day, or not.
Funny, I’d rather have more trailers and leave the roads to them and make sure people have good transport like subways, rails, etc. you’re always going to have a last-mile issue you can’t solve with mass transit so that works better for me.
I’d rather all the cargo moved by rail. Trains can be automated way better than a truck and the efficiency is enormous for longhaul.
And last mile how?
Progressively smaller gauge railways, until your Amazon parcel arrives via a 1-inch track on the regular 3.15pm service from the end of your street.
This is the way
Trebuchets.
Cake buddy!
Are you suggesting the entire long haul freight infrastructure should be designed around the “last mile”?
Ebikes
I just bought an e-scooter and it comes later this week. I am so stoked to be able to get around a little easier.
Exactly! The trucks aren’t the issue with the roads, it’s the amount of cars due to overpriced and underperforming public transport.
Yeah, I would rather that too honestly, it makes a lot more sense, but I suppose my main point was they should be on a separate system than commuters, whatever that may :)