> but if we offload this to computers we're actively removing humanity from the situation.
This massively reminds me of the "The machine fired me" [0] post from today morning's HN front page. Or, for what it matters, of the inhumanity that currently goes on in the US, with even toddlers being detained (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tender-age-shelters-tru...).
Following orders, eh?
> I can't fathom a situation where we want to automate what should be human interactions.
I can, it's called fascism. Break the individual responsibility of a human down and you can get them to do anything. There is a reason why in firing squads some members always have blank magazines [1] and why in the lethal injection sites a random of the required buttons for delivery will not work[2]. The individual member can try to evade responsibility by thinking "it was my button/gun that had the blanks" (apparently called "Diffusion of responsibility").
I recommend everyone able to do so a visit to Europe and one of the concentration camps the Nazis built. No matter which one, there are more than enough sites to remind us of what humans can do.
Continuing off-topic... What of the inhumanity of parents dragging their toddlers across national borders without a plan to safely reach a destination?
> What of the inhumanity of parents dragging their toddlers across national borders without a plan to safely reach a destination?
Compared with certain death, either due to hunger or being forced to fight for drug cartels or in pointless wars, fleeing without a safe plan is the lesser evil.
This massively reminds me of the "The machine fired me" [0] post from today morning's HN front page. Or, for what it matters, of the inhumanity that currently goes on in the US, with even toddlers being detained (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tender-age-shelters-tru...).
Following orders, eh?
> I can't fathom a situation where we want to automate what should be human interactions.
I can, it's called fascism. Break the individual responsibility of a human down and you can get them to do anything. There is a reason why in firing squads some members always have blank magazines [1] and why in the lethal injection sites a random of the required buttons for delivery will not work[2]. The individual member can try to evade responsibility by thinking "it was my button/gun that had the blanks" (apparently called "Diffusion of responsibility").
I recommend everyone able to do so a visit to Europe and one of the concentration camps the Nazis built. No matter which one, there are more than enough sites to remind us of what humans can do.
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17350645 (thanks to @larkeith for pointing it out)
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_by_firing_squad#Blan...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethal_injection#Procedure_in_...