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johngalt · 2016-10-05 15:40:36

The only thing we got wrong. We expected the machines that knew everything about us to be ours. Not someone elses.

kartan | karma 4940 | avg karma 6.78 · | 2019-04-26 10:29:33+00:00

We imagined a world where machines will work for us. We may be wrong.

akomtu | karma 1122 | avg karma 0.52 · | 2024-04-13 22:57:23

"We hoped our machines would automate our work and make us free. Instead they turned us into automatas."

consonants | karma 213 | avg karma 1.55 · | 2013-09-02 06:04:19

Machines are predictable and trustworthy; humans are shifty, fickle, and expect things like 'rights' and 'livable wages'.

First they came for the computer janitors, and I did not speak for I was not a computer janitor.

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scollet | karma 462 | avg karma 0.65 · | 2021-06-11 14:15:33+00:00

One day, only the machines will understand.

tommi | karma 916 | avg karma 3.14 · | 2013-06-28 13:20:31+00:00

"It's not us, it's the machine that we operate".

mirimir | karma 16819 | avg karma 1.63 · | 2016-03-13 01:48:26

Well, arguably we are machines.

zippy5 | karma 178 | avg karma 2.83 · | 2018-06-26 14:30:39+00:00

We also rely on witnesses with dubious memories and motives but people will never be held to the same standards as machines.

chrisco255 | karma 12721 | avg karma 2.19 · | 2020-05-05 02:17:42

Yeah, we think we run the machines but the machines really run us.

saosebastiao | karma 5648 | avg karma 2.94 · | 2012-12-22 21:37:23

We ensure that the machines serve the people, as opposed to a person.

wDcBKgt66V8WDs | karma 177 | avg karma 2.42 · | 2019-08-15 23:25:41+00:00

I have actually had that experience. Really thought I was clever till the system asking me my secret wasn't a machine at all.

vin047 | karma 73 | avg karma 1.22 · | 2024-02-16 12:05:05

Yeah we all thought machines would automate menial labour allowing us to focus on creativity and passion. Looks like it’s the exact opposite.

alacombe | karma 34 | avg karma 0.04 · | 2020-09-26 01:33:02

Just as if we were machines capable to blindly pick up where other machines left off and follow the same... programming (quite literally). Quite the contrary.

jimbokun | karma 17789 | avg karma 3.01 · | 2010-05-26 18:29:37

Our machines are not our children.

I know that's a metaphor, but I feel the better metaphor is another species. These machines are likely to be different from us in significant and important ways, and they are likely to have interests we do not share, and the ability to achieve those interests with or without our consent.

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ellyagg | karma 4088 | avg karma 5.85 · | 2021-04-02 17:59:01

It used to be that we were not all indistinguishable cogs in machines designed to be as inoffensive as possible.

brycehidysmith | karma 1 | avg karma 1.0 · | 2016-06-21 20:48:30

Does it matter? The machine saw a pattern, and it responded to the pattern. We don't need to know.

bamboozled | karma 7012 | avg karma 1.83 · | 2023-03-22 07:18:15

Machines lie. Machines tell the truth.

That’s something I never thought I’d hear. Sad development.

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jandrese | karma 30121 | avg karma 3.36 · | 2022-04-07 16:15:47

Computers used to be people, but machinery was never people.

salawat | karma 5305 | avg karma 1.0 · | 2021-12-08 20:37:52

Machines run by people who should damn well know better.

gxnxcxcx | karma 146 | avg karma 1.59 · | 2023-04-06 20:21:18

They spent so much time trying to give the machine a soul just to make sure it'd never had a chance against our soulless institutions!