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The Darwin Awards
2007 · Film · 94 min
Directed by Finn Taylor
After botching the capture of a notorious serial killer, idiosyncratic detective Michael Burrows loses his job with the San Francisco Police. He becomes an investigator for an insurance company and joins forces with a cynical field agent to probe suspicious and unusual deaths.
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The Darwin Awards - now an 8 part docu-series on YouTube Premium.
I think it was the movie "The Darwin Awards" that first introduced me to the concept of "micro-morts". The idea that there are activities that carry a small increase in the probability of death... Since then, I've seen other evidence of that idea.
I read a story about a nomadic tribe that will not sleep under dead trees as it is seen as bad luck. On any given night the chance that a dead tree will fall on you is very small, but if you sleep under dead trees every night, the chance that one will fall on you starts to add up, and it's likely to be your eventual cause of death.
A bad joke, but this somehow reminded me about: Darwin Awards movie, Autopilot Cruise Control scene. Afaik, Tesla Autopilot is an assistant, not an fully autonomous system. Which inherently means that it requires constant supervision. Using boats or planes autopilot won't either relieve you from monitoring where you're going to end up. Afaik, some of the news articles were titled with pure lies. 'Autonomous car', hmm, nope. Tesla isn't such. It's always important to acknowledge the true capability s of a system and not blindly trust it. This applies to any more or less automated system. People start blindly trusting it even if it really shouldn't be trusted. Let's say robot or AI stock investment bots. Luckily those are't going to kill anyone. I know, quite rude. It's sad that what happened happened. But in technological sense, we all knew it was going to happen sooner or later. We're going to see more and more things like this in future. - I've blogged several times about this same phenomenon, even before this case.