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I wonder what calculus decided automated systems built by humans are going to be better than humans themselves. Obviously computers have a lot of advantages, a
by awakeasleep 9y ago
I wonder what calculus decided automated systems built by humans are going to be better than humans themselves.
Obviously computers have a lot of advantages, and machines can be precise. But that only applies to certain domains, and I can't imagine anything that provides certainty about which.
- bryondowd 9y agoI'd imagine computers are more consistent. If the situation is one the automation can handle, it will handle it pretty much every time, assuming it's in good maintenance. Whereas a human's capability varies widely based on a multitude of factors from fatigue to distractions to medical issues to plain old overconfidence. Ultimately, it's probably easier to quantify the likelihood of an failure in automation than it is to quantify the likelihood of a human error.
- jonsen 9y agoThere must be considerable unscertainty in calculating the human error rate after eight months of interplanetary travel.
- irl_zebra 9y agoThe same calculus that lets me deploy thousands of servers with terraform and puppet without a mistake. Sure there are problems, but you fix them once (in dev hopefully) and never have to worry about them again. Humans otoh have the potential to make the same mistakes over and over.
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- 7952 9y agoComputers can integrate data from numerous sources and sensors and respond very rapidly. Humans are optimised for a limited set of sensory inputs. When those senses can be utilized a person can be ridiculously effective. But space ships do not readily conform to this.