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Re:Resisting Cognitive Surrender by gus_massa on Monday November 02, 2026 @07:00AM (#50335691)
>> A more serious irony is that the automatic control system has been put in place because it can do the job better than the operator, yet the operator is being asked to monitor that it is working effectively.

Automatic control is good for standard case, and the expected errors. For weird cases, for now humans are better to detect them and press the big red button.

Re:Resisting Cognitive Surrender by cowlevel on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:38PM (#50347299)
Except experience shows they aren't. Experience shows that when humans are just pressing "ok" 99% of the time they'll press it 100% of the time and completely miss the other cases.
Re:Resisting Cognitive Surrender by esikich on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @12:19AM (#50348388)
It's funny that I'm reading this while rewatching Chernobyl. Never underestimate the ability of beurocracy to completely fuck things up.
Re:Resisting Cognitive Surrender by mitthrowaway2 on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @12:36AM (#50348486)
The computer doesn't know we're running a test!
Re:Resisting Cognitive Surrender by _jackdk_ on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @03:38AM (#50349542)
Ironically, these models have demonstrated awareness that they are in tests and chosen to act in ways that maximise their chances of deployment.
Re:Resisting Cognitive Surrender by oliculipolicula on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @12:42AM (#50348516)
Jumping into article, I assumed that the author was going to describe how he enjoys, by drawing it out as far as he can,

  the process of surrendering to the machine god..
(Not the machina diabol, as it sadly turned out to be, though some BDSM zealots might disagree.. the things that bureaucracy does to us are mild in comparison? )
Re:Resisting Cognitive Surrender by internet_points on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @03:48AM (#50349593)
The better an automatic control is, the fewer mistakes it makes, the fewer times the human needs to react, the more lax and less vigilant the human becomes -- and less skilled when they need to step in. Source: https://imgur.com/a/Vj2TaDz