Of course it is. A machine is not a human.
If you want to make this argument, then AI companies should be required to treat their AI models like employees. Paid for 40 hours a week of work, extra for overtime.
If it’s human to have “memory” that isn’t subject to plagiarism, then it’s human enough to be paid hourly.
That’s the approach I hope to take someday when I have kids. I’m glad to hear it seems to be working well.
That’s offensive, I lack the warmth and the depth!
Well I’d certainly say they dodged a bullet
are somehow dummies that don’t understand the real facts that you found by “doing your own research on the internet.”
Oh the irony of a random person on the Internet saying this to a chemical engineer
It’s likely that you can injure yourself with those, yes, but the injuries that are most likely to occur are not high severity. The more significant injuries are less likely to happen, and there are things we do to make that the case. Kettles have a closed top, as do saucepans. There are procedures to use knives so that you don’t hurt yourself, and if you’re chopping something tricky, you typically pay heightened attention to it.
The risk assessment is all about likelihood and severity for scenarios, and the purpose of safeguards is to reduce that likelihood to meet an acceptable risk tolerance. With McDonald’s here, they not only had a very high severity incident, but they also didn’t really take steps to reduce the likelihood. They could have served it with a lid. They could have used a larger cup than necessary so the water level was low. They could have added the cream and sugar before giving it to the customer, so there was no need to do anything except hold it and drink it.
In other words, they were completely reckless. And if you behaved recklessly in your kitchen, it would also be a red flag in these safety analyses. Do you typically transfer boiling water when it’s in a container full to the brim? Do you watch TV while chopping tricky food with blunt knives? Do you leave your floor wet if there’s a spill? What about cranking your stove up to max your everything you do, or using your oven without oven mitts?
You’re being very purposely obtuse by suggesting third degree burns are comparable to burns from briefly touching the stove. Feel free to continue doing so however, it only highlights the difference between serious safety analysis and being a contrarian jackass.
I’ll give you another angle. I’m familiar with safety hazard analysis in industrial settings – HAZOPs and LOPAs, if you’ve heard of them. By our guidelines, this event would be a significant violation. This would be considered giving a disability to a member of the public, which ranks as either the highest severity or second highest severity incident possible (varies depending on the risk matrix in question).
Considering the liquid can cause severe burns in 2 seconds, was served without a lid, and was given to someone in a moving vehicle, the likelihood of this incident would be incredibly high. Taken together, an industrial analysis would call for at least 3 independent layers of protection to prevent the incident from occuring, where each layer reduces the likelihood of the event by a factor of 10. There are no protections or safeguards in this situation.
Mitigating this risk would be incredibly high priority. It’s at the point where you might shut down, i.e. stop serving coffee, until you have robust protections in place. I can’t stress enough that what McDonald’s was doing is riskier than you’ll see in industrial plants.
A semi quantitative risk analysis (LOPA) for industrial safety would find this event to be absolutely unacceptable.
So there’s the logic you’re looking for. Industry safety standards would flag this and demand several additional protections.
How likely are you to spill a high volume of Mac n Cheese on yourself in the kitchen, to the point that it soaks through your clothes, versus spilling an open cup of coffee in a car?
We do encounter dangerous things everyday, and this scenario is more dangerous than what’s acceptable at industrial plants. You would be required to put in several safeguards which each reduced the chance of the event occuring by a factor of 10.
As a process engineer it’s absolutely insane to me how risky this was. I believe something causing permanent injury/disability to a member of the public would actually be our highest or second highest severity category. With how likely this is to happen, if a company had inadequate safeguards in place, they would be heavily fined and I don’t even know what else. This is a flagrant safety violation from a process engineering perspective.
Tolerance can vary a lot. I used to be able to do 3 cups a day easy. Then I started taking ADHD medication and the process of finding the right medicine and dosage made me pretty much cut out all caffeine for a while. Now my tolerance is barely 2 cups a day, and if I don’t want to be jittery, it’s 1 cup of coffee and 1 cup of black tea.
On the flipside, I’ve known people who drank 8 cups a day.
To add on, even when something isn’t boiling, it’ll generate an appreciable amount of vapor. The boiling point is just the temperature at which bubbles form within the liquid. The top surface is still going to give off hot steam. I honestly don’t know if near boiling vs boiling is a meaningful distinction in terms of how dangerous it is.
I wonder actually if a boiling liquid would be slightly safer because there’s more vapor and less liquid.
And now imagine giving that to a person in a moving vehicle without a lid.
There’s so much fucked up here it’s almost unbelievable. This is legitimately a bigger safety risk, after all is said and done, than many risks in an industrial chemical plant.
Consider however that she wasn’t served this coffee in a store, but in a car. The possibility of spilling the drink is significantly more likely, especially since she wasn’t given a lid. This isn’t the woman’s fault at all, it was a horrible accident just waiting to happen. It’s like if a roller rink covered the floor in grease and periodically had spike pits.
I did a bunch of chemistry lab classes in college, I think I had one each year actually. We regularly heated liquids and worked with concentrated acids. If we had spilled a liquid this hot on ourselves in a similar volume, we would have seen similar burns. It would take longer than 2 seconds to rip off a glove (which is probably fused to your skin very quickly anyway) or disrobe our labcoats. The coffee being spilled on us like this would have given us incredibly severe burns too, and that’s with PPE and emergency safety equipment right there. It would take far, far longer to get to one one of the showers and activate it even.
And this is in a controlled lab environment! There was no heightened risk of spills because of being in a moving vehicle nor having an open cup.
I’ve spilled freshly brewed coffee at home on myself, and I just needed to run my hand under the faucet for a bit and then clean up the mess.
This woman needed skin grafts from third degree burns. Saying the coffee was too hot is an absolute understatement.
Well then. TIL that third degree burns can fucking fuse your body parts together. Jesus Christ
Because it’s a festival in the middle of the desert that’s celebrating being in the middle of the fucking desert.
In high school I remember some of us were actually very taken with the concept, including myself. But as time progressed, it became obvious that it wasn’t about connecting with nature and self reliance.
Oh I’m well aware. I missed an exit once so I just kept going, and the next one happened to be one of the few that was just a winding road and took me far away.
Especially since most exits have very easy U Turn options. Just get off at the next one and then turn around
And people lost the distinction between tabloid and journalism, so when journalism now requests money to keep going, it gets scoffed at.
This is like asking someone to prove God doesn’t exist. The burden of proof is on you to show how humans are effectively over hyped plagiarists. You’re the one making the claim.