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sometimescanbefunny 25 points ago +25 / -0

I think most people wouldn't comprehend just how big of a deal "nearly five orders of magnitude is." For those of us who can grasp it abstractly, it's enough to make your head spin.

For the normies, you could try something along the lines of "the error rate was so high compared to the allowed rate, imagine that instead of driving 3 miles to Wal-Mart, you found yourself on the face of the moon. That's how bad the errors were compared to how bad they're allowed to be"

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magastrophysicist 13 points ago +13 / -0

Most excellent. Thank you for the great example!

Another one: if your wages increased from $50,000/year to 85062.5 times as much, you'd be making $4.25 BILLION/year.

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DiscoverAFire 11 points ago +11 / -0

Factcheck: 3*10^5 = 300,000miles.... lunar orbit is like 250,000 miles. You would actually have driven past the moon. Checkmate trumper!

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IthoughtIwalked 8 points ago +8 / -0

We need a Snopes novelty account exactly like this to "fact check" every claim made on this site lmao

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RexCollumSilvarum 3 points ago +3 / -0

If your brain cells malfunctioned 68% of the time instead of 0.00008%, you would have crashed the car into a tree before even getting out of your hometown.

(Gee, I wonder how many people the deep state will kill using 'allowable error rates' in their self-driving cars in the future!)