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minus-squareLightfire228@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 day agoYou’ve shifted the problem of corruption from the cops to the programmers Unless you make their code open source, but even then, there’s still a person/entity responsible for managing the code Computers aren’t divorced from human biases. They do exactly what you’ve told them to do, even if you didn’t intend for the exact outcome. There’s no “do the right thing” instruction. You have to mathematically define what “the right thing” is as a series of numerical instructions
You’ve shifted the problem of corruption from the cops to the programmers
Unless you make their code open source, but even then, there’s still a person/entity responsible for managing the code
Computers aren’t divorced from human biases. They do exactly what you’ve told them to do, even if you didn’t intend for the exact outcome.
There’s no “do the right thing” instruction. You have to mathematically define what “the right thing” is as a series of numerical instructions