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> It’s actual literal point is to make a lot of people a lot of money. Indeed. "The purpose of a system is what it does"
by djrobstep 5y ago
> It’s actual literal point is to make a lot of people a lot of money.
Indeed. "The purpose of a system is what it does"
- perl4ever 5y agoThat's not a useful definition. It makes me think of when people say that there's no sense in debating if a supreme court decision was correct, because the supreme court is the highest legal authority. If they are correct by definition, then what are they doing to decide cases?
- xref 5y agoAlso the SC regularly overturns its own precedents. Similar concept to Papal Infallibility https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_infallibility https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_infallibility
- djrobstep 5y agoI'm not sure how that connects at all - "the purpose of a system is what it does" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_what_it_does https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...) isn't making any claims about correctness.
- perl4ever 5y agoI would say that the purpose of something is what is proper or correct for it to do. I think the slogan should not be taken literally and means more like "don't let the (possibly many-faceted and disputed) purpose of a system blind you to what it does".