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This shows an important concept: programs with well thought out rules systems are very useful and safe. Hypercomplex mathematical black boxes can produce outcom

This shows an important concept: programs with well thought out rules systems are very useful and safe. Hypercomplex mathematical black boxes can produce outcomes that are absurd, or dangerous. There are the obvious ones of prejudice in making decisions based on black box decisions, but also--- who would want to be in a plane where _anything_ was controlled by something this easy to game and unknowable to anticipate?

feoren 4y ago
> programs with well thought out rules systems are very useful and safe No, it's easy to come up with well-thought-out rules systems that are still chaotic and absurd. Conway's Game of Life is Turing Complete! It's extremely easy to accidentally make a system Turing Complete.