setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoHackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomwarearstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square162fedilinkarrow-up1407arrow-down18cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.orgtechnology@lemmy.world
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minus-squareA_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·6 months agoYou are erring dangerously close to the classic “computers don’t make mistakes” argument.
minus-squareKairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·6 months agoNot at all. A human plus a computer is going to be less prone to mistakes than a human plus a human though.
minus-squareA_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoIn my experience its more prone to mistakes, because people just accept what computers tell them as infallible unless its something so massively, egregiously wrong that it shatters what little common sense they have… and even then its only 50/50.
You are erring dangerously close to the classic “computers don’t make mistakes” argument.
Not at all. A human plus a computer is going to be less prone to mistakes than a human plus a human though.
In my experience its more prone to mistakes, because people just accept what computers tell them as infallible unless its something so massively, egregiously wrong that it shatters what little common sense they have… and even then its only 50/50.