Re:Ask HN: Am I going insane or is there genuinely no value ...
by zzonk on Saturday April 23, 2022 @08:19AM
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The problem is that if you allow overrides in the computer absolutism, corrupt governments will use these overrides to their benefit. And you’re back to the square one.
Re:Ask HN: Am I going insane or is there genuinely no value ...
by ZeroGravitas on Saturday April 23, 2022 @08:34AM
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If the government is corrupt, then you've got problems regardless.
The general solution to this issue has been more and better democracy, which despite a lot of effort being spent undermining it, still seems to be the best solution available today.
When designing automated replacments for any business process you have to deal with the same 'exceptions'. You could just accept "computer says no" as the desired outcome in exchange for the efficiency, and let hackers take your money because "hey, they beat the system! It's theirs now" but that's a choice, not a limitation of the tech itself. Unless the tech's only benefit is that "computer says no" or "hacker took your money" is final, which doesn't actually sound like a benefit.