{"id":25,"date":"2008-10-08T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T20:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heartwoodcollective.com\/infolantern\/2008\/10\/08\/trusting-computer-generated-advice\/"},"modified":"2008-10-08T20:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T20:52:00","slug":"trusting-computer-generated-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heartwoodcollective.com\/infolantern\/2008\/10\/08\/trusting-computer-generated-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Trusting Computer Generated Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was getting directions to go to a thing.<br \/>Went to Google Maps.<br \/>was goin&#8217; from Ann Arbor, MI to 2600 S Telegraph Rd # 100, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302<br \/>It gave me this:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=d&amp;saddr=ann+arbor,+mi&amp;daddr=2600+S+Telegraph+Rd+%23+100,+Bloomfield+Hills,+MI+48302+(Organic+Inc)&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=%3BCegMWrPO4qkQFRAKigIdFR0J-yGO8O5dZawXAw&amp;mra=pe&amp;mrcr=0&amp;sll=42.443162,-83.475755&amp;sspn=0.808711,1.785278&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=h&amp;ll=42.43934,-83.5174&amp;spn=0.32384,0.46214&amp;output=embed&amp;s=AARTsJpCs6Cf5-esJMxOqcPLK9NSU8qNhg\"><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=d&amp;saddr=ann+arbor,+mi&amp;daddr=2600+S+Telegraph+Rd+%23+100,+Bloomfield+Hills,+MI+48302+(Organic+Inc)&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=%3BCegMWrPO4qkQFRAKigIdFR0J-yGO8O5dZawXAw&amp;mra=pe&amp;mrcr=0&amp;sll=42.443162,-83.475755&amp;sspn=0.808711,1.785278&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=h&amp;ll=42.43934,-83.5174&amp;spn=0.32384,0.46214&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Now, if I was doing w\/o the benefit of this sufficiently complex magic mapping tool, I would have taken 23 to 14 to 275 to 696 to Telegraph.  Sounds simple, compared to what they suggested.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out the path they sent me on was probably a bit faster, wasn&#8217;t very complex, and had nice scenery.<\/p>\n<p>I had the distinct impression that this was the route <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">a person local to my destination<\/span> would have suggested.  It even had us coming up to the driveway to the building from behind the building, so we didn&#8217;t see the business sign &#8211; just trusted the directions given.<\/p>\n<p>I was impressed by this.  And I wasn&#8217;t alone.  A couple other people had a similar experience &#8211; taking the same route suggested by The Goog.  My favorite comment came from <a href=\"http:\/\/decafbad.com\/blog\/lifestream\">Les Orchard<\/a> who said &#8220;I feel like I just gained experience points.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was freaky.  A revealing of what would have otherwise been &#8220;localized knowledge&#8221;.  I like benefiting from that.  But it does make me feel drawn in, and this triggered some defenses.  Do I trust somewhat wacky directions in the future?  When I get this information from a human who lives where I&#8217;m headed, I trust.  When it comes from a data crunching machine, what then?  Trust?  <\/p>\n<p>All these roads we drive on are connected (other than some closed, corporate road correlate to the &#8220;dark web&#8221;), so it makes sense using that assumption that one should be able to just find the shortest path based on knowing the localized rules.  So, I guess trust of certain advice coming from computers is bound to increase as it improves.  Slippery road, trusting computer advice.  Thar be dragons.  (&#8230;but dragons give good experience points, hmmm&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was getting directions to go to a thing.Went to Google Maps.was goin&#8217; from Ann Arbor, MI to 2600 S Telegraph Rd # 100, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302It gave me this:View Larger Map Now, if I was doing w\/o the benefit of this sufficiently complex magic mapping tool, I would have taken 23 to 14 to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/heartwoodcollective.com\/infolantern\/2008\/10\/08\/trusting-computer-generated-advice\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trusting Computer Generated Advice<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75BYE-p","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":58,"url":"https:\/\/heartwoodcollective.com\/infolantern\/2007\/11\/29\/tiki-lounge\/","url_meta":{"origin":25,"position":0},"title":"Tiki Lounge","date":"November 29, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Worth the drive, me thinks.MAI KAI LOUNGE- Tecumseh MI(found off Jim Rees' Flickr photo)","rel":"","context":"With 2 comments","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartwoodcollective.com\/infolantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartwoodcollective.com\/infolantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartwoodcollective.com\/infolantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartwoodcollective.com\/infolantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartwoodcollective.com\/infolantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heartwoodcollective.com\/infolantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartwoodcollective.com\/infolantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartwoodcollective.com\/infolantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartwoodcollective.com\/infolantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}