3 ms·

At least this is actual CNC software using math and geometry that somebody can find the bugs in. What terrifies me is “software” that is really just black boxes

by wrs 2y ago

At least this is actual CNC software using math and geometry that somebody can find the bugs in. What terrifies me is “software” that is really just black boxes filled with floating point numbers and no one knows how it works, or when it won’t.

inglor_cz 2y ago
IDK. Logically you are right, but humans are emotional. Just a day or so ago, here on HN, full of IT guys, there was a discussion about some Tesla autopilot crash. People were absolutely livid and demanded the impossible. Now - generic Musk hate might have something to do with it, but I suspect that it is not just Musk. We really react very unfavorably to machines wreaking havoc, while our tolerance for humans fessing up is somewhat higher.
- Sohcahtoa82 2y ago
  > We really react very unfavorably to machines wreaking havoc, while our tolerance for humans fessing up is somewhat higher. Yup. Over 100 people die in car crashes in the USA every day. When a fatal car crash happens, it MIGHT make it to the local news. But a single car crashes while driving autonomously and it's national news for MONTHS. Now, I'll acknowledge that there will be statistical bias here. There percentage of cars driving autonomously at any given moment is likely less than 1%. But autonomous cars make different kinds of mistakes. They'll fail to identify the lines in the road correctly, or fail to recognize an obstacle. Meanwhile, humans will drive drunk, drive distracted, or have massive egos and drive dangerously because they think they own the road and everyone else is just in their way, or just simply be bad drivers that don't even look around themselves before changing lanes.
- Rinzler89 2y ago
  Because we feel better when those humans can go to jail as a form of Justice since now that person gets to suffer in exchange for the suffering caused. Meanwhile we don't feel anything if the robot that killed someone gets decommissioned because machines Don't suffer.

by wrs 2y ago

inglor_cz 2y ago

IDK. Logically you are right, but humans are emotional. Just a day or so ago, here on HN, full of IT guys, there was a discussion about some Tesla autopilot crash. People were absolutely livid and demanded the impossible. Now - generic Musk hate might have something to do with it, but I suspect that it is not just Musk. We really react very unfavorably to machines wreaking havoc, while our tolerance for humans fessing up is somewhat higher.

Sohcahtoa82 2y ago
> We really react very unfavorably to machines wreaking havoc, while our tolerance for humans fessing up is somewhat higher. Yup. Over 100 people die in car crashes in the USA every day. When a fatal car crash happens, it MIGHT make it to the local news. But a single car crashes while driving autonomously and it's national news for MONTHS. Now, I'll acknowledge that there will be statistical bias here. There percentage of cars driving autonomously at any given moment is likely less than 1%. But autonomous cars make different kinds of mistakes. They'll fail to identify the lines in the road correctly, or fail to recognize an obstacle. Meanwhile, humans will drive drunk, drive distracted, or have massive egos and drive dangerously because they think they own the road and everyone else is just in their way, or just simply be bad drivers that don't even look around themselves before changing lanes.
Rinzler89 2y ago
Because we feel better when those humans can go to jail as a form of Justice since now that person gets to suffer in exchange for the suffering caused. Meanwhile we don't feel anything if the robot that killed someone gets decommissioned because machines Don't suffer.