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Poll: Who do you trust less, humans or computers?
Alternatively: Computers programmed by Humans, or Humans programmed by computers?
- rrwo 4y agoI trust humans telling me to trust their computers less than I trust humans or computers by themselves. Computers are human artifacts that amplify human biases.
- simonblack 4y agoComputers are nothing but fast morons. They have no knowledge other than what humans have permitted them to have or compute with. There is the old acronym: GIGO. "Garbage In, Garbage Out". Put in false information, you only get false information out. But which humans have put that false information into the computer? "On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." - Charles Babbage (1791-1871), inventor of the Analytical Engine.