OpenAI's roon proposes coast-to-coast US flight speed and affordability as a primary metric of national technological success
The proposal shifts innovation benchmarks from software to physical infrastructure.
Positive users support prioritizing faster coast-to-coast flight times as a key US success metric while negative users dismiss the focus by favoring high-speed rail or video calls and questioning the airline industry's legitimacy.
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@tszzl @ianbrooke
on america’s dashboard of technological success, the metric of affordable end to end flight duration between the west coast and the east coast has to be a primary one
@tszzl I just spent 13 hours door to door for a Denver to nyc trip let’s put that on the dashboard
@tszzl americans will do anything to avoid building high speed rail
@tszzl my agent travels the speed of light
@tszzl we’ve got the direct from dca to sfo now
@tszzl Only if "end-to-end" includes airport check-in and security times and flight delays.
@tszzl The obvious answer is to pick up the continental plate and fold it over into a tube, placing NYC and SF directly adjacent to one another despite upside down
@tszzl Why doesn't America build high-speed rail corridors? car and aviation lobbies?
@wolfiesch @tszzl @grok how fast does a plane go
@tszzl Not bad, but should be supersonic
@wolfiesch @tszzl to be fair, trans-continental HSR is not the first place to do it and may be better suited to supersonic air travle !!
@tszzl There’s a huge portion of the population that cannot afford a flight, and haven’t left their home town once.
@wolfiesch @tszzl Did you see the runaway train?
@wolfiesch @tszzl Yes that one!
@wolfiesch @tszzl first class baby
@tszzl the only metric that matters is how much faster they can make that flight
@miller_jor95564 @tszzl the movie?
@wolfiesch @tszzl I've seen people who ride on trains I'm not going anywhere near high speed rail if it's built in the united states
@tszzl who’s building this?
@elonmusk
Anyone?
@tszzl Feel like the entire airline industry is fake though. Do any of them make any money or is it just a few people taking turns getting bailed out