When I was a kid, I was a huge asshole without realizing it because I thought all the other kids weren’t trying or were specifically being coy with me. I thought they weren’t trying their best like I was. I would get really mean about it. Turns out they were trying their best maybe.
As far as I’ve seen, so many people don’t think their way through things but imitate their impression of those things instead.
We once had this girl about a year younger than I was over at the house and we were gonna have her drive my go-kart. Everything seemed fine until she blasted off into the corn field and we had to chase her down and get her out of there. She just pressed the gas and the brakes at the same time(breaks were a one tire friction band POS) and wiggled the steering wheel back and forth because that’s what she thought driving was. She had absolutely no idea that she was supposed to be directing the go-kart’s functions.
It completely shattered my impression of other people. I had no idea anyone could be so absurdly stupid. She basically thought of vehicles as magic and I suspect many people navigate through life thinking the same.
This is part of why I worry about self driving cars and the kids who are growing up without seeing the incremental progress of stuff like computing and AI.
When I was a kid, I was a huge asshole without realizing it because I thought all the other kids weren’t trying or were specifically being coy with me. I thought they weren’t trying their best like I was. I would get really mean about it. Turns out they were trying their best maybe.
As far as I’ve seen, so many people don’t think their way through things but imitate their impression of those things instead.
We once had this girl about a year younger than I was over at the house and we were gonna have her drive my go-kart. Everything seemed fine until she blasted off into the corn field and we had to chase her down and get her out of there. She just pressed the gas and the brakes at the same time(breaks were a one tire friction band POS) and wiggled the steering wheel back and forth because that’s what she thought driving was. She had absolutely no idea that she was supposed to be directing the go-kart’s functions.
It completely shattered my impression of other people. I had no idea anyone could be so absurdly stupid. She basically thought of vehicles as magic and I suspect many people navigate through life thinking the same.
This is part of why I worry about self driving cars and the kids who are growing up without seeing the incremental progress of stuff like computing and AI.