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Paradoxically, they say we want people because they're accountable. At the same time the show that parole judges are consistently making wrong decisions. But th

Paradoxically, they say we want people because they're accountable. At the same time the show that parole judges are consistently making wrong decisions. But they're presumably not being held accountable. Sure we feel nice imagining there's accountability, but in some professions it's only an illusion. The same goes for doctors in some countries. They can get away with carelessly killing a patient. There isn't real accountability there. Even when there genuinely is accountability like drivers and pilots who pay for their mistakes with their lives, it doesn't stop them making careless mistakes. I seem to remember that pilot error is the cause of the majority of plane crashes. It certainly is for car crashes too.

x5n1 11y ago
Ideas are easy. Reality is hard. Doctors and pilots are often too stressed out to perform properly, if you are working 20 hour days you're probably out of it at hour 16. Careless mistakes often happen because people are expected to be machines. Humans were not made to do any of this. We're apes that have in a few thousands years decided we rather be machines. Not really decided, more like been coerced into being machines. And we don't know how to shut the system which tells us these things, which are lies, off. Just because you can do something, doesn't mean that you should. Human beings don't understand this concept. Just because you can do something, and someone wants you to, you absolutely should is the current human way of looking at the world.