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> A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision. It was true in 1979, it's true today. Blaming "coding"
by grues-dinner 2y ago
> A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision.
It was true in 1979, it's true today.
Blaming "coding" for this is an explicit admission that someone is shirking their accountability.
- e40 2y agoThese people are shameless and will lie at the drop of a hat to get out from under any responsibility.
- VMG 2y agoThe modern corollary is > ... therefore a computer must make all management decisions
- arkh 2y agoAt least they only got fired. Not prosecuted for fraud like the British postal service: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal > In all, between 1999 and 2015, over 900 subpostmasters were prosecuted and 236 went to prison.
- autoexec 2y agoThe more governments and corporations try to shove AI into everything the worse this problem is going to get. Blindly trusting computers was always a terrible idea, and now computers are getting even less reliable.
- arkh 2y agoThe main problem is the lack of responsibility all along the chain. 25 years and people who shifted blame and were OK with people going to prison so their bonus would not be impacted are still enjoying life out of jail. Seeing this lack of consequence how can you expect people to behave ethically?
- ndsipa_pomu 2y agoI still can't believe that no-one in the Post Office leadership has been prosecuted for perverting the course of justice or fraud. They "reclaimed" lots of money from the falsely accused postmasters, so I don't see why that isn't treated as fraud.
- const_cast 2y agoStealing from little people good, stealing from big people bad. It’s really that simple in modern western countries. Defrauding an organization? Baaaaad. Defrauding hundreds or thousands of employees all at the same time? Good!