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Frank Zappa, on a different topic that many people consider evidence of "moral failure", said, A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The pr
by pdkl95 11y ago
Frank Zappa, on a different topic that many people consider evidence of "moral failure", said,
A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound.
The problem comes in when people who take drugs
treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.
Well, before anybody starts accusing the machines of having similar problems, I suggest they remember this paraphrasing of Zappa:
A robot is not bad. A robot is merely Turing-machine controlled automation.
The problem comes in when the people programming the automation
treat their tools like a license to bypass annoying requirements
or replace locally-controlled decisions with inflexible heuristics.
- wutbrodo 11y agoI think the problem is that, even for those who have the right intentions and rigor in mind, there may be decisions that seem clearly handle-able by rules that don't seem overly simplified. There's always the possibility (inevitability?) that even the most careful and conscious of designers will overlook an unintended consequence. This is hardly a revolutionary idea: it essentially boils down to "code has bugs". That's what this kind of research is designed to do: come up with a framework for understanding when "locally-controlled decisions" are required as opposed to codified rules.
- aaron695 11y agoGuns don't kill people, people kill people. This line of argument is strawperson. What you are saying might be true but pointless to the issues at hand.