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by Symmetry 5805 days ago
"People must choose, when a computer need not choose." Perhaps I'm not understanding something, but that seems to be obviously false. A human always has the option of being unsure in the face of non-computable statements like "You can't know that this sentence is true" or such.
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Imagine a dataset where the inputs are to be in a range from 1-100, but for some reason unknown to the programmers when the program was written, there is a value of 4,000.

In the real world, a human must decide what to do with that 4,000. A computer would crash or throw an error or something like that even though the data may actually be valid.