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Re:People Staring at Computers by trompetenaccoun on Monday July 12, 2021 @05:29AM (#27808547)
I don't understand it either. What's that quote supposed to mean? Systems can and do have unintended consequences, surely.
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Re:People Staring at Computers by marcosdumay on Monday July 12, 2021 @10:57AM (#27810927)
It's really recommended that anybody not getting it to read the article. You won't get a good TLDR.

But yeah, systems can not have unintended consequences because systems do not have intentions. It's people who have intentions, and those are not additive properties. (And, well, you can't simply add additive properties into system ones either.)

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