‘I’m Old, Not an Idiot.’ One Man’s Protest Gets Attention of Spanish Banks

Re:‘I’m Old, Not an Idiot.’ One Man’s Protest Gets Attention... by akhmatova on Friday March 25, 2022 @10:43AM (#30802750)

Sigh, it does have to do with the digital world actually (in that everyone now seems to think that everyone is on their platform. Further, it has been been observed that digital systems promote cognitive fatigue and empathy depletion across the board). There's no need to be so dismissive. Sigh.

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Re:‘I’m Old, Not an Idiot.’ One Man’s Protest Gets Attention... by 52-6F-62 on Friday March 25, 2022 @11:38AM (#30803443)

Indeed. There are many things computers are amazing at doing (that's why I find them fascinating and enjoy working on them from time to time)—but human empathy isn't one of them.

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Re:‘I’m Old, Not an Idiot.’ One Man’s Protest Gets Attention... by joshstrange on Friday March 25, 2022 @11:50AM (#30803616)

Computers didn't choose to close down a branch or limit its hours, humans did.

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Re:‘I’m Old, Not an Idiot.’ One Man’s Protest Gets Attention... by 52-6F-62 on Saturday March 26, 2022 @11:02AM (#30812422)

That’s not really a straight comparison here.

Computers are not feeling machines, they’re calculators.

Humans are greatly varied, contradictory creatures with a seemingly bottomless internal mode.

You will get everything under the sun from out of humans. You will get discrete numerical calculations of out a computer.

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Re:‘I’m Old, Not an Idiot.’ One Man’s Protest Gets Attention... by akhmatova on Friday March 25, 2022 @12:07PM (#30803877)

But the computers tricked the humans into thinking "you can just do it all online".

My favorite example of this being restaurants that, when you ask for a menu, give you a QR code (with no explanation of course).

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