[s73ver_]

It's quite not, actually. Humans have the ability to see nuance in things. Computers currently don't. So you see things like Google banning developers for innocuous violations of the rules, whereas humans (assuming they were given enough time to properly review) wouldn't give 3 strikes just because they saw the same violation 3 times.

[mfoy_]

No, that really is the definition of an algorithm.

Algorithms and computers are NOT inextricably linked. Just because software often uses algorithms to define behaviour, doesn't mean algorithms cannot mean other things.

[s73ver_]

In the context being discussed, computers are involved and are the ones making the decisions.

[mfoy_]

That's not the context of this discussion. Refer to the parent comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15417291

The context is the word "algorithm".