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The fact that non-software has the capacity to end more lives than software is inherent in one being less plugged into the real-world? Perhaps I should wire you
by Apocryphon 5y ago
The fact that non-software has the capacity to end more lives than software is inherent in one being less plugged into the real-world? Perhaps I should wire you $10k straightaway out of the gratitude that we do not exist in the world where Stanislav Petrov dutifully followed the erroneous computer readings from Soviet early detection systems, sparking global thermonuclear war. Would that be a sufficient kill count to your liking?
Besides, few pieces of non-engineering is responsible for massive data breaches that lead to massive indirect consequences, such as Equifax. Perhaps your obsession with death overlooks other consequences of poor software engineering like financial ones, such as Black Monday, 1987. Perhaps bad software kills fewer people because less software engineering is involved with real-world systems- though requiescat in pace to those lost to Tesla Autopilot accidents, or the unfortunate biker in Arizona struck by a self-driving Uber.
I am transparently moving the goalposts here because your presumption that fatalities are the only consequence of shoddy software engineering was fallacious to begin with. Pray I do not move them any further.