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There's a pretty large class of problems where the computer could be aware of failure, and not able to do anything about it. Just because you know that a senso
by randallsquared 17y ago
There's a pretty large class of problems where the computer could be aware of failure, and not able to do anything about it. Just because you know that a sensor is failing doesn't mean that you can fix it in software; the best you can do force a human to acknowledge the failure before they continue. I think a bigger problem than humans relying on things that don't fail is humans getting used to ignoring failure because the failures typically don't matter.
- ars 17y agoBut are there problems where the computer is aware of failure and requires the human to do something about it? I think that's pretty rare. Usually if it fails, it can handle that on it's own. (For example stop the train.) How often would you have a failure where the human must intervene, and the computer can do nothing? That's what I meant by don't fail, have the computer handle the problem. If you handled it, it's not a failure (from a global perspective). The real problem is where the computer does not know it failed.