No GPS. I hadn’t had offline downloaded maps but just downloaded them. Thanks for the idea!
Hm, so you’re saying that maps are useful for situations where you’re trying to escape. A few things here.
Personally I don’t have a car. I suppose maybe I’d somehow gain access to one, or be in a car with someone else and need to go somewhere though.
Maps only seem useful if there’s a specific location I’d need to get to. If it’s just generally that I need to “get away”, following the roads and winging it seem good enough. And even if it is a specific location, if it’s local enough I very well might be able to figure it out without a map.
There’d be people around who I can ask for directions. Yes, things would be hectic and crazy, but I dunno, if everyone needs to evacuate to some area, I feel like people would be relaying messages amongst each other.
A local map is even more useful then, as it opens up paths that aren’t available to people with cars. Though mainly you’d want to use it to get away from your current place to one that is safer. That usually is higher ground, though in the case of earthquakes maybe it’s open spaces? Earthquakes aren’t really a thing here, so I haven’t checked them
Following the roads and winging it is probably what most people would do. If you have a map, you can take non intuitive paths which lead to better places. I’m guessing if you’re trying to escape, you care more about “a safe place”, “a place with water/food”, “a friendly place” as opposed to a specific address. A map lets you locate multiple such locations, which otherwise you would have no idea exist.
That assumes they know where to go. I’d expect most people to be in the same boat
Feels pretty meh. For higher ground I know my area well enough to know where that is. Same with open space. And if I didn’t I don’t think a map would be of much help.
Hm, maybe. I have this map of my city printed out and it does list places like schools and hospitals.
Yeah but my model is that if, say, out of 100 people 5 know where they’re going, those 5 will tell another 5, and then those 10 will relay to another 10, until the group as a whole has enough of a sense. Do you not expect something like that to happen?
I’m not sure that modeling people as rational agents in this kind of situation is correct. I’d assume that for every 5 people who know, there are 5 who are certain they know but are incorrect, 5 who have no idea but sound authoritative and another 20 who heard something from someone and are pretty sure it was over there, maybe? It should sort itself out after a while, but depending on the circumstances the sooner you have accurate information, the better.
The ideal approach, of course, is to just ask Claude to come up with some example situations and then research where to go (with backups) - spend 10min on it once every now and then, to make sure you’re up to date, and just have the places marked somewhere.
No GPS. I hadn’t had offline downloaded maps but just downloaded them. Thanks for the idea!
Hm, so you’re saying that maps are useful for situations where you’re trying to escape. A few things here.
Personally I don’t have a car. I suppose maybe I’d somehow gain access to one, or be in a car with someone else and need to go somewhere though.
Maps only seem useful if there’s a specific location I’d need to get to. If it’s just generally that I need to “get away”, following the roads and winging it seem good enough. And even if it is a specific location, if it’s local enough I very well might be able to figure it out without a map.
There’d be people around who I can ask for directions. Yes, things would be hectic and crazy, but I dunno, if everyone needs to evacuate to some area, I feel like people would be relaying messages amongst each other.
What do you think?
A local map is even more useful then, as it opens up paths that aren’t available to people with cars. Though mainly you’d want to use it to get away from your current place to one that is safer. That usually is higher ground, though in the case of earthquakes maybe it’s open spaces? Earthquakes aren’t really a thing here, so I haven’t checked them
Following the roads and winging it is probably what most people would do. If you have a map, you can take non intuitive paths which lead to better places. I’m guessing if you’re trying to escape, you care more about “a safe place”, “a place with water/food”, “a friendly place” as opposed to a specific address. A map lets you locate multiple such locations, which otherwise you would have no idea exist.
That assumes they know where to go. I’d expect most people to be in the same boat
Feels pretty meh. For higher ground I know my area well enough to know where that is. Same with open space. And if I didn’t I don’t think a map would be of much help.
Hm, maybe. I have this map of my city printed out and it does list places like schools and hospitals.
Yeah but my model is that if, say, out of 100 people 5 know where they’re going, those 5 will tell another 5, and then those 10 will relay to another 10, until the group as a whole has enough of a sense. Do you not expect something like that to happen?
I’m not sure that modeling people as rational agents in this kind of situation is correct. I’d assume that for every 5 people who know, there are 5 who are certain they know but are incorrect, 5 who have no idea but sound authoritative and another 20 who heard something from someone and are pretty sure it was over there, maybe? It should sort itself out after a while, but depending on the circumstances the sooner you have accurate information, the better.
The ideal approach, of course, is to just ask Claude to come up with some example situations and then research where to go (with backups) - spend 10min on it once every now and then, to make sure you’re up to date, and just have the places marked somewhere.