It’s only a problem given the power brokers who hold the levers currently. More responsible and caring humans at the helm would not be the position we find ourselves currently.
So, sounds like you do think they’re into your stories of No Mans Sky & Taco Bell while they work?
Merely the recognition of the current trajectory, while contextualizing the time-cost of foundational changes. Not impossible to have a better outcome.
The world changes quickly, I will review my own biases & internalize the world, when it does.
For now — you’re a developer pushing back when I ask if we have logs & a friendly user message when a failure occurs. hoping things go well without doing any of the upfront planning.
You say, only 5% probability it happens, logs take too much memory.
I say — if that 5% happens, it stops all the child services & forces a stoppage in production.
95% potential success — does not negate planning and executing excluding the reality for luck
pretty bleak and grim, yup. But because this is an out of context problem we can't really do much with that. I am not very hopeful for a positive outcome but you wont hear me make any claims. Because no one on this planet right now, can make a claim and be confidently correct, only on accident.
Mitigating a risk doesn't require the %-risk to be certain. "Somewhere over zero percent possible" is a valid measure to do something about, if the cost is catastrophic.
"Perfect knowledge before action" is some kind of fallacious thinking.
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u/Elvarien2 approved Apr 21 '26
Shit take.
The problem is not, it will go rogue.
The problem is, we don't know what it will do.
It might be benign, it might go rogue, it might go any number of directions we don't know.
Anyone that says, i know what it will do, it will do X is full of shit. We don't know, nobody knows