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Zero mistakes is something a machine can be built to fulfill. Re the hyperbole of horse and buggy: What if your pacemaker decides to go to 200 beats per minute

• freedomben 4y ago
  > Zero mistakes is something a machine can be built to fulfill. Even the lunar lander and other NASA software that received mountains of testing/review has had errors. I don't think it's possible (for a human at least) to design perfect error-free software. And that's before considering hardware faults/failures that do happen in the real world. > Re the hyperbole of horse and buggy: What if your pacemaker decides to go to 200 beats per minute late at night. I would hate that of course, but I'd rather have the option to get a pacemaker knowing that in rare cases it might kill me. Without the pacemaker option a lot of people would be dead anyway. > The cult of ship fast and fix it based on feedback is taking us further from ethical behavior. I couldn't agree with you more on that one.