Re:A computer can never be held accountable
by taeric on Monday February 03, 2025 @06:03PM
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The problem you will quickly run into is individuals cannot take the load that this line of thinking leads to. Accidentally typo an extra 0 on a payment process? Hope you have the funds to take accountability on that mistake. After all, we have taken the choice that the system cannot be operated to rollback any choice, as that would lower human accountability...
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Re:A computer can never be held accountable
by the8472 on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @03:49AM
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Then that person should have the right to refuse or ask for appropriate compensation. It's often argued here that the C-suite earns their high compensation by taking on those risks. So let the CFO fatfinger those unchecked transfers if he wishes.
But if rollbacks are possible and cheap then we need all that much accountability. People want accountability when there's no rollback possible, e.g. when decisions leads to deaths or life-years wasted.
Re:A computer can never be held accountable
by taeric on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @10:43AM
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Your last sentence is basically my disagreement and push, here? Systems can be made so that they can be rolled back. More, systems that oversee life and death situations often have to act faster than a human can respond to them.
I'm all for trying to get personal accountability to lead to a personal liability as much as we want. That, just isn't going to happen.
So, if you want to change the manual page in question to be that systems should be reversible or "fixable", for whatever that means, sure. But "management decisions" are usually among the most reversible choices any company will ever make.