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by yifanl 1550 days ago
Because codifying any behaviour is explicitly justifying any behaviour, and few engineers want to be responsible for signing off on the feature to run over Grandma.

A workaround thus far has been to abstract the problem into small enough pieces that ARE palatable to sign off on, as your comment shows. "Minimize the number of Grandmas run over" is a different framing than "Should we run over Grandma?".