It's only when it becomes real life and you start giving real addresses that problems start creeping in.
Heh. I have national computer magazines from the 80s and 90s full of wanted ads for pen-pals, trades, sales and the like which always published people's real names and addresses. More striking is that it's likely these were teenagers. I'm not sure that'd happen much anymore...
You're holding machines to a higher standard than people. Driving tests don't involve hundred thousands of scenarios that a student needs to pass before getting a license.
That's an interesting point. The driving test is validation of your internal model. The test is simple. The complexity of your internal model is likely to be incredibly complex. How do you know we're holding machines to a higher standard when we have little or no clue what our own standards are?
[Vladislav] Surkov turned Russian politics into a bewildering, constantly changing piece of theater. He sponsored all kinds of groups, from neo-Nazi skinheads to liberal human rights groups. He even backed parties that were opposed to President Putin.
In typical fashion, as the war [In the Ukraine] began, Surkov published a short story about something he called non-linear war. A war where you never know what the enemy are really up to, or even who they are. The underlying aim, Surkov says, is not to win the war, but to use the conflict to create a constant state of destabilized perception, in order to manage and control.
Sound familiar...?
One man's constant is another man's variable. -- A.J. Perlis
