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Russians' dislike for complicated systems sounds very good but I hope it will have humans watching over it too. There were already many close calls and accident
by FRex 9y ago
Russians' dislike for complicated systems sounds very good but I hope it will have humans watching over it too. There were already many close calls and accidents (some fatal) due to computer and programming errors in both civilian and military systems.
Case in point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alar...
if it wasn't for Stanislav Petrov the world might have ended back then.