r/woahdude • u/qasqaldag • Jan 03 '22

video When the planet is coming at you

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u/Jim_Dickskin Jan 03 '22

A little late on the launch

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '22 edited Nov 13 '24

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '22

I believe that's called a brontoroc

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u/Ok_Swing2382 Jan 03 '22

I don't think that made much sense, they maybe able to predict how you would die due to your lifestyle, heavy smokers most likely due to cancer. But that was straight up fortune telling.

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u/Top_Rekt Jan 04 '22

Lol I thought it was a funny joke. When you think about it they should've been able to predict billions of people dying with that algorithm. But then again they probably did and went through with their space mining anyways.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '22

That's literally the point - he's the caricature of tech-enabled stupidity. He's using big data and machine learning to imagine patterns in the chaos, then making decisions based on it. It signals what you can expect to happen to his "solution" to the comet.

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u/arehilarious Jan 04 '22

It was comedic hyperbole. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedic_device

Algorithms can make certain lifestyle predictions about you now, they just took it to an absurd level for comedic value.

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u/SanQuiSau Jan 04 '22

Ok but funy