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Heh, is this a Therac 25 joke?
by zachthewf 4y ago
Heh, is this a Therac 25 joke?
- auggierose 4y agoI really hope it is a joke.
- ihatepython 4y agoYes
- andreasley 4y agoPlease don't do this here. The topic deserves serious discussion.
- flangola7 4y ago[flagged]
- acadapter 4y agoHumor is a very sophisticated form of communication. Think of how much was said in so few words, by just poking at shared common knowledge.
- zikduruqe 4y agoTragedy is for those that feel and comedy is for those that think.
- smolder 4y agoLots of comedy more or less proves it needn't be thoughtful as opposed to emotional. Laugh tracks, or the particular speaking style of a standup comic, are riding on the feelings they invoke. Being surrounded by real laughter also makes things "feel" funnier. Laughter is contagious. Fart jokes and home-video genital injuries get laughs with no real "thinking" component.
- _a_a_a_ 4y agoPerhaps you're making a point (that eludes me, BTW) by writing clever sounding twaddle. I hope so.
- archgoon 4y ago[dead]
- cutemonster 4y agoAt least we can conclude: Dark humor is for those who both feel and think
- andreasley 4y agoHumor is fine, but when several readers don't recognize it as such, the joke obviously isn't based on shared common knowledge. Some people walk away with wrong information, and that isn't helpful.
- stronglikedan 4y agoSerious discussion deserves sparse contextual humor.
- carapace 4y agoTherac 25 is so serious that jokes are one of the very few ways to discuss it at all, eh?
- d23 4y agoAI? Or medical equipment malfunctions?
- xwdv 4y agoThis joke is how you separate people who know what they’re talking about from the hopeless optimistic crowd. People who just take that joke as serious clearly haven’t thought through the consequences of using code you don’t completely understand and has no real author. Therac 25 is often a key topic in any rigorous computer science education.
- andreasley 4y agoExactly, but is it a good thing to separate people into groups? How does that help?
- fasterik 4y agoSometimes satire is the most effective way to make a serious point.
- Aeolun 4y agoI cannot step in one of those machines without wondering if there is a hardware cutoff.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- eloff 4y agoI went with a mechanic in a chair lift once. He was very nervous, saying he knows the kind of people who maintain these things, and he knows the kinds of things that can go wrong. I feel the same way about automation, whether it be self driving cars or an X-ray machine. I know the kind of people that program them, and the vast number of ways things can go wrong.
- htrp 4y agoHow many CV engineers own a self driving car becomes the AI equivalent question?
- HeyLaughingBoy 4y agoI work in the medical device field. Funny you should say that because just yesterday I was looking at some really crappy (but still safe, mind you!) code and wondering how I'd feel if I were being wheeled into the OR, knowing "how the sausage is made."
- Sakos 4y agoDo we at least still use hardware interlocks? I hope we still use hardware interlocks.
- HeyLaughingBoy 4y agoHardware "interlocks" are used when the risk cannot be reduced to an acceptable level by software alone.
- Turing_Machine 4y ago
- weatherlite 4y agoDidn't know this story. Wow that sucks.