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It sounds like the problem is in the people or procress then if they cut corners and aren’t thorough. I didn’t see the computer or data failing in my hastey re
by sosuke 8y ago
It sounds like the problem is in the people or procress then if they cut corners and aren’t thorough.
I didn’t see the computer or data failing in my hastey read through of the piece. It always contained what data the people entered.
- skywhopper 8y agoPeople make mistakes in communication all the time. Other humans can notice and interpret around those mistakes, but computers can't. Humans can infer things that are missing or implicit in the data. Computers can't. So if we build a computer system on top of data that we _know_ will be poor, incomplete, and sloppy, and if we force reliance on that system, then that's a major problem. It's silly to assert "the computer didn't do anything wrong". The computer has no agency or will. It doesn't matter if we run perfect software against a bad dataset, or if we run perfect data through bad software. The only thing that matters are the results. The computer and the people are all parts of the same system.