This absolutism is jarring against your suggestion of applying the same technology to medicine.
Siri predates this architecture by a decade. And you still want to write off the whole thing as literally useless if it’s ever ever ever wrong… because god forbid you have to glance at whatever e-mail it points to. Like skimming one e-mail to confirm it’s from your mom, about a flight, and mentions the time… is harder than combing through your inbox by hand.
Confirming an answer is a lot easier than finding it from scratch. And if you’re late to the airport anyway, oh no, how terrible. Everything is ruined forever. Burn your computers and live in the woods, apparently, because one important e-mail was skipped. Your mother had to call you and then wait comfortably for an entire hour.
Perfect reliability does not exist. No technology provides it. Even with your prior example, phone alarms - I’ve told Android to re-use the last timer, when I said I wanted twenty minutes, and it didn’t go off until 6:35 PM, because yesterday I said that at 6:15. I’ve had physical analog alarm clocks fail to go off in the morning. I did not abandon the concept of time, following that betrayal.
The world did not end because a machine fucked up.
This absolutism is jarring against your suggestion of applying the same technology to medicine.
Siri predates this architecture by a decade. And you still want to write off the whole thing as literally useless if it’s ever ever ever wrong… because god forbid you have to glance at whatever e-mail it points to. Like skimming one e-mail to confirm it’s from your mom, about a flight, and mentions the time… is harder than combing through your inbox by hand.
Confirming an answer is a lot easier than finding it from scratch. And if you’re late to the airport anyway, oh no, how terrible. Everything is ruined forever. Burn your computers and live in the woods, apparently, because one important e-mail was skipped. Your mother had to call you and then wait comfortably for an entire hour.
Perfect reliability does not exist. No technology provides it. Even with your prior example, phone alarms - I’ve told Android to re-use the last timer, when I said I wanted twenty minutes, and it didn’t go off until 6:35 PM, because yesterday I said that at 6:15. I’ve had physical analog alarm clocks fail to go off in the morning. I did not abandon the concept of time, following that betrayal.
The world did not end because a machine fucked up.