[salawat]

>Of course we can trust them to drive our cars, we just can't trust humans.

...And just where do you think those computers came from, sparky?

Back to square one.

If you can't trust the humans in the chain, trusting the system as a whole is the act of a fool. You've abandoned rationality, and comfortably ensconced yourself in the plush comfort of irrationality and ignorance, setting yourself up to get rolled by the real master's in the house, who'll be the ones who make, run, and operate the machine. Double points for not even realizing the only one pulling the wool over your eyes is yourself.

You're trusting something that half the time needs effing cross-checking by a squishy bit due to bored programmers misusing computing primitives in ways in which their integrity and soundness is undermined by their physical implementation.

[krapp]

I think you misinterpreted the nature of my comment and my actual point of view. My fault for forgetting Hacker News is where any attempt at nuance in language goes to die.