Originally Posted by
lomapaseo
stickyb
Well here I was agreeing with aguadalte and you come in with an authorative sounding statement that doesn't seem to me to match the discussion.
Perhaps there is a misunderstanding among us of the meanings.
Could you precise a little more why/how the aguadalte statement is flawed?
Sorry if I did not make myself clear first time around. The false statement i was trying to counteract is "the computer decides". The computer decides absolutely nothing that its programmer hasn't told it to. Behind every computer program is a human programmer (why does everyone think of Mr Gates?). Too many people think "the computer" can decide things - it doesn't, just regurgitates what the programmer put there. That's where the GIGO syndrome came from (Garbage In, Garbage Out)
The other point about the Big Red Button is that is not a simple task of switching of the automatics, if you did that most modern planes would fall straight out of the sky. The only thing a BRB can do is switch off some of the automatics - the key question will always be which ones do you trust and which ones do you dump.