I wonder if the same was once said about calculating machines and calculators.
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What does that look like in practice?
What do you mean by this?
Why do people read novels? For the story or something else?
What do you mean by that? In what way?
Doesn't the Highway Trust Fund pay for road maintenance as well?
I think a point we are grappling with is, what necessitates human intervention, like philosophically. Is it accountability? I was thinking about this in terms of code review and it's not like we would fire someone if they broke prod, so at what point do we need someone accountable. Maybe it's for approvals for certain classes of risk (like those associated with actual harm to life). It's also not lost on me that many human systems lack accountability.