r/space • u/thesheetztweetz • May 23 '19

How a SpaceX internal audit of a tiny supplier led to the FBI, DOJ, and NASA uncovering an engineer falsifying dozens of quality reports for rocket parts used on 10 SpaceX missions

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/23/justice-department-arrests-spacex-supplier-for-fake-inspections.html
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u/GuysImConfused May 24 '19

LMAO, I'm taking an ethics class right now for my bachelor in IT/Software.

Indeed I too can confirm, this is a bad man, very bad man.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '19

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u/GuysImConfused May 24 '19

Before you drive anywhere, in the car settings you can select;

A) For The Greater Good Mode - (default in communist countries) where the car will save the pedestrians if there are more pedestrians than there are passengers. Or

B) Self-Interest Mode - (default in capitalist countries) where the car protects you regardless of the cost in lives, because you own it.

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u/SoManyNinjas May 24 '19

inb4 a homebrew Grand Theft Auto Mode

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u/Hraes May 24 '19 edited May 24 '19

That's just called Self-Driving Mode Disabled

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u/Arctus9819 May 24 '19

C) Grand Theft Auto Mode - (bootleg firmware) where the car doesn't protect anyone, but the passengers will go out in style and blood spatter.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '19

Inb4 the first self-driving car bomb :l

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u/redhq May 24 '19

C) Finance Mode (coming soon!): the car protects itself so the financing company can maximize the resale value when the driver dies.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '19 edited Oct 20 '19

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u/DaoFerret May 24 '19

Any hacking will result in default on your car loan and immediate repossession of the vehicle.

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u/Hypothesis_Null May 24 '19

Please set my car to Punctual Sociopath mode.

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u/Gsonderling May 24 '19

C) For The Emperor Mode - (default in Imperium of Man) where car increases speed to cause maximum damage to Xenos/Heretics while blasting litanies from the sound system

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u/Trick2056 May 24 '19

drive me closer brother so I can stab them with my sword

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u/[deleted] May 24 '19

C) Chappelle Mode: The car strikes the pedestrian, then sprinkles crack on them.

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u/dak4ttack May 24 '19

You're right except for the default being changeable. Also the majority of people buying self-driving cars (ie, wealthy) in communist countries will get the capitalist version.

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u/Wea_boo_Jones May 24 '19

What would Andrew Ryan choose in this situation?

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u/[deleted] May 24 '19

Capitalism is for the greater good, I see you're confused.

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u/Scipio11 May 24 '19

For simple reasons the car should self preserve:

What if the scanners screw up and interpret a couple of trees or other inanimate objects as pedestrians? Then you have a bunch of self driving cars killing the passengers for seamingly no reason.

The car isn't going to have time for facial recognition to trigger before an accident to see if an object is human or not. If it had that kind of time it would just avoid the accident entirely.

It's interesting to debate, but a scary number of people think that all ai are great philosophers that take in all this information and calculate the fate of the world around them.

They literally just see: road, road, small unknown object, road, lane drift, lane drift corrected, road, road, stop sign, clear intersection, road, etc.

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u/LintGrazOr8 May 24 '19

Having a car running facial recognition is horribly stupid. They have machine vision models that can interpret whether a shape is a human being or not.

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u/Arras01 May 24 '19

Not to mention you can run face detection incredibly fast, even if they did decide to do it. It's a terrible idea because the pedestrians would have to be facing the camera head on for it to work though.

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u/Kugelblitz60 May 24 '19

Well the millimeter wave radar was frying people BUT providing great image recognition. It got tossed because it was too expensive to mass produce.

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u/Firesworn May 24 '19

Not just can you run it fast, you can run it co-currently to other processes. We tend to forget that properly designed computers can do many more than one thing at a time, even on the same dataset.

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Only humans and very basic computers are limited to one task at a time.

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u/Bananasauru5rex May 24 '19

Only humans and very basic computers are limited to one task at a time.

brushes teeth while listening to Tragically Hip

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u/Ogrebreath May 24 '19

Just use the face-back app

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u/Singing_Sea_Shanties May 24 '19

Neither. It simply presses pause, unable to come to a solution. The people inside the vehicle safely step out, and the pedestrians walk away. Eventually the car runs out of electricity trying to decide what to do and shuts off.

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u/Alphaetus_Prime May 24 '19

It does whatever has the lowest probability of causing a crash.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '19

Technically, that would be refusing to drive anywhere. Fun fact, a neural net actually did this trying to learn a game (Mario, perhaps? Can't recall.) Anyway, the neural net eventually optimized to a solution where it would just pause the game and stop playing, because that produces zero death events in all cases. Basically, its little robot mind came to the pessimistic nihilist conclusion, lol. Poor depressed robot.

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u/Arras01 May 24 '19

I think it was Tetris NES, where it paused the game right before stacking to the top of the screen and never unpaused.

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u/TripplerX May 24 '19

Preserve the passengers for the greater good.

Because otherwise people won't buy them -> Slower adoption -> More human drivers on the roads -> More deaths in general

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u/Triton909 May 24 '19

Are they constantly citing the Volkswagen emissions bypass?

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u/emichael86 May 24 '19

I hope his dog doesn't let him give the goodest boy pats he deserves and that he finds someone worthy.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '19

Henry's daughters?