Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: Microsoft admits 30% of code not written by humans Date: Sat, 3 May 2025 02:31:41 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <1swQP.482450$Pbo3.305517@fx34.iad> <2t3RP.2$1SN1.0@fx15.iad> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 03 May 2025 04:31:41 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="30d4c8336280d13ab981d4dcdf2d0dd6"; logging-data="2709739"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX188Gl4ENUlN5FJuJa7zT5x6" User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Cancel-Lock: sha1:cFjRsAQnQUQbYPGUb6WpjeHqgu4= On Fri, 2 May 2025 09:08:15 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote: > On 2025-05-02 00:37, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> >> On Thu, 1 May 2025 22:04:13 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote: >> >>> For instance, you cannot possibly run faster than x, you also couldn't >>> ever be more muscular than y. To break through those limits, you would >>> have to be special (anomalies or bugs in the system), and agents were >>> deployed to squash you back into the walled garden. >> >> I don’t understand why. Why should there be any “failures”, when all >> actions are effectively consequence-free? > > Because the machine's systems always followed logic. Why did they have to? Put that under the control of the human inhabitants as well. > For example, humans wanted every day to be filled with sunshine and good > weather, but such a thing would lead to crop failure. “Let there be successful crops!” *Snaps fingers* Problem solved. > A lot of the problems were also caused by human emotion, something the > machine simply couldn't comprehend. Let the humans themselves sort it out. That’s how it works in human society.