Re:Tim O'Reilly: The Internet Is Being Scapegoated in a Lot ...
by tremon on Monday April 05, 2021 @06:43PM
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Slow government is like reducing the clock of your cpu in order to protect against security vulnerabilities
Step debugging is exactly that: slowing down the execution enough so that errors in the process become apparent before the program reaches its fatal state.
I disagree that it's a non-sequitur. What you want is for government to move slower than its observing processes, otherwise you can't prevent disasters, only correct them after-the-fact. Whether that means slowing down government or speeding up transparency (e.g. journalism/foia requests) is open for debate, but slow(ish) government is essential to the process of checks and balances.
Step debugging is exactly that: slowing down the execution enough so that errors in the process become apparent before the program reaches its fatal state.
I disagree that it's a non-sequitur. What you want is for government to move slower than its observing processes, otherwise you can't prevent disasters, only correct them after-the-fact. Whether that means slowing down government or speeding up transparency (e.g. journalism/foia requests) is open for debate, but slow(ish) government is essential to the process of checks and balances.