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babbish··on Watson for President
Who said anything about GitHub? The situation would call for a highly specialized, custom-made solution. If you think that's impossible, please share your reasons for thinking so. Comments like yours are pure FUD and aren't in any way helpful.
babbish··on Watson for President
Assign negative weights to people who submit damaging pull requests?

Insert a layer of expert representatives (akin to congresspersons) to generate the PRs?

Making the system resilient doesn't sound like anything more than another engineering problem to me.

babbish··on Watson for President
If that's what he said, then I agree wholeheartedly. "Garbage in, garbage out" is pretty hard to argue against.
babbish··on Watson for President
Barring military secrets, perhaps, there's no reason the AI program's current state would necessarily have to be a black box. Nor would it need to be a neural network. I also disagree with the assertion that complex things cannot be vetted.
babbish··on Watson for President
Would you have the same qualms if the AI's source were open and the public voted on which pull requests to accept?