Irrational faith in digital information

Feb 03, 2010 15:35

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ccommack February 3 2010, 22:09:41 UTC
There have been several incidents resulting in severe property damage as a result of people passing instructions directly from GPS devices to steering wheels without an intermediate stop at the brain; it's probably only a matter of time before someone gets themselves killed.

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brasssun February 4 2010, 15:00:43 UTC
We have become the future, and wow is the future kind of dumb. It would be nice if the combination of human and computer intelligence merged in some way that we got the best of both, but apparently not yet.

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