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by entropi 64 days ago
>Someone needs to be involved in decision making, with real stakes if those decisions are bad.

Why though? I imagine things could also go the "google way" as well. The automated system makes the decision; and you just.. deal with the consequences if that decision is bad. We could just have an extended version of this dynamic as well: 3-4 entities with enough compute owning everything with no responsibilities; and when something goes bad, oh well. It's not like you can go to their competition, who also works the same way.

I think we saw many times that after a certain scale (after becoming, say, too big to fail), there is no bad decision you can't afford.