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(lemmy.blahaj.zone)
No way this isn't a joke, right?
Every time I think that, I'm wrong. So at this point I'm just going to assume it's legit and be pleasantly surprised if proven otherwise.
Yes it's a joke. His page is full of satirical AI-themed shitposts
Nope, itβs real, the hedge honcho himself is going to revolutionize the flight industry with these new Elelems. Itβs the future, and heβs hedging it.
No, it is not not a joke
People openly admitting to using ai to draw a straight line are not exactly what one would call intellectually adventurous.
AI does not believe in the round Earth hoax. π€·ββοΈ
Just for reference: https://www.greatcirclemap.com/?routes=LAX-CDG
Madrid to Auckland Vs Lisbon to Auckland is a fun one
Near-antipodal cities are all like that.
- Christchurch (New Zealand) β A Coruna (Spain)
- Madrid (Spain) β Weber (New Zealand)
- Wellington (New Zealand) β Alaejos (Spain)
- Hong Kong (China) β La Quiaca (Argentina)
- Nelson (New Zealand) β Mogadouro (Portugal)
- Whangarei (New Zealand) β Tangier (Morocco)
- Tauranga (New Zealand) β Jaen (Spain)
- Hamilton (New Zealand) β Cordoba (Spain)
- Junin (Argentina) β Lianyungang (China)
- Ulan Ude (Russia) β Puerto Natales (Chile)
- Masterton (New Zealand) β Segovia (Spain)
- Palembang (Indonesia) β Neiva (Colombia)
- Wuhai (China) β Valdivia (Chile)
- Padang (Indonesia) β Esmeraldas (Ecuador)
- Rafaela (Argentina) β Wuhu (China)
- Galvez (Argentina) β Nanjing (China)
That's pretty cool. I wish I could just intuitively understand the routing, but I suppose that would take some of the fun out of it. Buenos Aires to Perth did not go how I was expecting.
I suggest a better map projection.
Globe. Or interactively rotating orthographic (aka digital globe). Sorry, there is no flat solution. You either have to do a ridiculous amount of slicing (Dymaxion, Waterman Butterfly) or just end up with a projection that distorts other parts of the world and isn't much better than Mercator with arbitrary poles. Yes, some preserve scale better than Mercator but none do great circles consistently well.
An AI was needed to draw a straight line? Like, map projection and curvature aside - he didn't do this himself with a map and pencil? Same revelation either way but this one was lazier.
He's joking about how stupid AI "solutions" and the people who stan them are.
would be funny to make a map projection that made the great circle a straight line.
It's like every so often people get this "revolutionary" idea of straight flight paths.
It took me a minute too long to realize that the white parts of the map were land and the grey ones were water.
I need my morning tea before I keep scrolling...
I think you'd be surprised how many people can't comprehend this without showing them a globe lol.
I think you'd be surprised how many people can't comprehend this even with a globe
for anybody wondering why airlines use curvy flight paths: itβs because most flight paths were made before AI
I propose a new formula for calculating them:
flight path + AI
new_flight_path = length_of_flight - (AI * 2)
Just a little snippet of what can be done with ai....
This code is PROTECTED and I WILL SUE. This is NOT under a public license.
Fuck it's on my phone now, how do I delete it!? I'm so sorry I didn't mean to steal it I swear!!!
I have traced your internet IP protocol address back to your IP home address, using AI.
Expect a letter from my lawyer soon!
This is superb.
No it's not, it's terrible! They took away AI! Twice!
Surprised how many people donβt realize this is satire
Yeah, it's hard for us fluent in sarcasm to actually understand those that struggle with it - like wdym you can't tell? Even the sentences are set up as a joke.
I've learned to add "/s" at the end but it icks me every time.
The bar is too low, hard to tell now
Poe's law is in full force in this age of "AI".
What an idiot. It's an airplane obviously it has to fly up into the air and then down again
Well the shortest path is a drilling submarine to go through two continents and the bottom of an ocean. Unfortunately it will take aproximately 87 years to get there this way.
So they're gonna build a tunnel through the earth the plane can fly through, to go in a straight line, right?
Maybe the plane could be on tracks for safety?
Really shows the limits of AI. Itβs orders of magnitude faster to go through the Earth.
This is so wrong. The fastest route is going west from LA to Paris, because that will make you go back in time. By the time you land in Paris, it's the previous day!!
this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2025
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