‘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 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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