# The Miselucidation of Whack-a-Mole

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
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**Created:** [December 30, 2023, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-miselucidation-of-whack-a-mole/995332 "2023-12-30T05:32:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2023, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-miselucidation-of-whack-a-mole/995332/22 "2023-12-30T14:12:07Z")

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Huh? How was it a question if your own making? The discussion was about speed and acceleration of magpods, and you volunteered

> [@Hyperloop : pie in the sky or is it time?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyperloop-pie-in-the-sky-or-is-it-time/666116/295):
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> > [@Hyperloop : pie in the sky or is it time?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyperloop-pie-in-the-sky-or-is-it-time/666116/286):
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> > Simple physics suggests that the potential speed cannot be realized in an urban area, it takes too long a distance to reach airline speeds unless acceleration is drastic.
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> At 1g of acceleration it would take 500 seconds (8.3 minutes) to reach 500 mph and about 75.5 miles to achieve. Doesn’t seem terrible and, I assume, it could accelerate faster comfortably.
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> But yeah, nitpick, Hyperloop has so many other problems (many you noted).

Which seems like you are attempting to answer other people, not posing your own question.

Gotta be honest, that’s a calculation i would have expected Bard to get right. But it didn’t. The moral is that you really can’t rely on current gen AI to do even simple problems unless you know enough to check it.

So yeah, your “crime” (and come on, this isn’t a crime, it’s a stupid stumble on your part) was to post crap. And you did it because you trusted AI to be something it isn’t. At least, not yet.

If you’d just posted that, by itself, and not admitted to using AI, you would still have posted misleading crap. And if you refused to admit your mistake, you’d be taking worse heat than you are. There would have been an immediate pit link about you (confidently posting crap and refusing to admit he’s wrong) not a link to a thread bitching about generative AI. And the only reason you ended up in the pit is because you stood up for AI doing something it isn’t good for. That is, you are in the pit for posting a different type of crap and sticking to it.

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