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Comment by ErroneousBosh

8 hours ago

Measure twice cut once seems to be forgotten these days.

As well as: A computer can never be held accountable

  • Let me ask you this - can a company be held accountable? I.e. are you ok with the legal manner in which when I hire a company to provide me a service and they fail to provide it, or cause harm in the process, I can sue them, potentially in a way that would lead to their bankruptcy?

    If so, I can imagine a potential future in which we have limited liability companies each run by a single AI (potentially on a particular physical computer). In that future, if you hired an AI to do a project for you, and it ended up deleting the production database, you'd be able to sue it, and get a payout and/or bankrupt it, which I imagine would then lead to an "antifragile" ecosystem whereby AIs adapt to be more careful.

"Measure twice, THINK ONCE, cut once" is even better[0].

[0] Why yes, I have measured twice, cut once, and made a right old balls up.