[llmslave]

The wright brothers first plane was also dangerous

[paojans]

This is more titan submersible than first plane.

It’s dumb, everyone knows it’s dumb, and people do it anyways. The unsolved root problem isn’t new but people just moved ahead. At least with the sub the guy had some skin in the game. Openclaw dev is making out like a bandit while saying “tee hee the readme says this isn’t safe”.

[advisedwang]

And universally across the globe societies have decided that flying them requires:

* Pilots to have a license and follow strict proceedure

* Every plane to have a government registration which is clearly painted on the side

* ATC to coordinate

* Manufacturers to meet regulations

* Accident review boards with the power to mandate changes to designs and procedures

* Airlines to follow regulations

Not to mention the cost barrier-to-entry resulting in fundamentally different calculation on how they are used.

[mikkupikku]

In America, any rando can build and fly an ultralight, no pilot license needed, no medical, no mandatory inspection of the ultralight or anything like that. I guess the idea is that 250 lbs (plus pilot) falling from the sky can't do that much damage.

[birdsongs]

Flight / aerospace is probably one of the worst analogies to use here!

As you say, it is one of the most regulated industries on earth. Versus whatever AI is now - regulated by vibes? Made mass accessible with zero safety or accountability?

[jstummbillig]

> And universally across the globe societies have decided

No. Nobody decided anything of the sort about the wright brothers first plane. If they had, planes would not exist.

[lambda]

But we didn't have thousands of people suddenly flying in their planes a few months from their first flight.

Now, the risks with OpenClaw are lower, you're not likely to die if something goes wrong, but still real. A lot of folks are going to have a lot of accounts hijacked, lose cryptocurrency and money from banks, etc.

[bogzz]

Wow what an amazing analogy, you're absolutely right!

[oxag3n]

To continue the false equivalence - alchemists believed Magnum Opus will lead one day to Philosopher's Stone.

[SpicyLemonZest]

Because the Wright brothers knew their first plane was dangerous, they took care to test it (and its successor, and its successor's successor) only in empty fields where the consequences of failure would be extremely limited.

[SlightlyLeftPad]

The big difference is that we didn’t incentivize or coerce the entire global population to ride on it.

[browningstreet]

Years and years ago I went to a "Museum of Flight" near San Diego (I think, but not the one in Balboa Park). I joked, after going through the whole thing, that it was more a "Museum of those who died in the earliest days of flying".

[myspy]

What the fuck is wrong with you people? You are glaring over the technology, defending it as the coming of christ and have no sense for security? Are you serious?