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I can defer decision making to a computer but I cannot defer liability. Computers have the final say on anything to do with computers, if I transfer money at m

I can defer decision making to a computer but I cannot defer liability. Computers have the final say on anything to do with computers, if I transfer money at my bank, a computer bug could send that money to the wrong account due to a solar ray. The bank has accepted that risk, and on some (significantly less liable but still liable) level, so have I. Interestingly, there are cases where I have not accepted any liability - records (birth certificate, SSN) held about me by my government, for example.

kps 2y ago
> … but I cannot defer liability. For that, you need a corporation.
Terr_ 2y ago
> a computer bug could send that money to the wrong account due to a solar ray I think the original quote captures that with the qualifier "a management decision", which given that it was 1979 implies it's separate from other kinds of decisions being made by non-manager employees following a checklist, or the machines that were slowly replacing them. So a cosmic-ray bit-flip changing an account number would be analogous to an employee hitting the wrong key on a typewriter.
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