How can something with no morals, compassion, love, or loyalty "go rogue". Seems like a contradiction in terms...
They say you shouldn't anthroporphize the lawnmower, and I think that's what's being done with this story.
alex_c•58m ago
‘Rogue’ hammer loses control and smashes carpenter’s thumb.
cwillu•28m ago
Because a system being in an unstable attractor of behaviour requires none of those things
It is at least as much of a mistake to reason about these systems the same way we do a misbehaving compiler as it is to reason about them as if they were conscious beings; at least the latter mistake (which is more or less forced by the lack of appropriate language) does not present the illusion that these sorts of behaviours are mere bugs and misspecifications that can be corrected by applying a chipper junior developer to the task.
conartist6•1h ago
They say you shouldn't anthroporphize the lawnmower, and I think that's what's being done with this story.
alex_c•58m ago
cwillu•28m ago
It is at least as much of a mistake to reason about these systems the same way we do a misbehaving compiler as it is to reason about them as if they were conscious beings; at least the latter mistake (which is more or less forced by the lack of appropriate language) does not present the illusion that these sorts of behaviours are mere bugs and misspecifications that can be corrected by applying a chipper junior developer to the task.