He is right about the older professionals who don't fuck around. I'd hire a professional linguist over a newfangled coderboi every time.
This entire talk is a whole crock of bullshit. This fool wants an oath for honest programmers. What is this supposed to achieve? How does he imagine this taking place?
Are the hackers in Romaina going to see the light and mend their ways? Is NSA going to pinky promise to not put backdoors in software any more? Are industries developing smart munitions going to dismantle themselves out of politeness?
"We don't want the government to regulate us!"
10 minutes later: "We have to get the government to create a law against using programming to lie!"
10 minutes after that "We need to create our own governing body like lawyers and the bar", Another word for that is a government. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pYUHwIl0O8
This guy keeps on saying dumb things. It would take hours to go over every stupid thing he says.
Also, his delusional, hubris filled "We rule the world" statement.
"You wanted to be safe from the government so you formed a stupid government." - Rick and Morty
Sure, if every aspect of self driving cars were hard-coded I'd agree, but these are machine learning systems which makes this an entirely different concept than someone writing buggy IRQ handling that causes a kernel panic.
As machine learning tools use larger and larger neural networks, a bug here and there actually become less of an issue when compared to the grand scheme of things. It's why imperfect CPUs are making comebacks Source
Every human makes errors, no human brain is making 100% perfectly accurate computations, yet we still manage to do things "good enough" to have created modern civilization.
He is spot on, one bad programmer can bring down an enterprise, or kill people when a bug is introduced in the self driving car. We are at a time where coding has deteriorated so badly that we are at a verge that it will kills lots of people.
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2 u/IamSand 01 May 2016 05:11
He is right about the older professionals who don't fuck around. I'd hire a professional linguist over a newfangled coderboi every time.This entire talk is a whole crock of bullshit. This fool wants an oath for honest programmers. What is this supposed to achieve? How does he imagine this taking place?
Are the hackers in Romaina going to see the light and mend their ways? Is NSA going to pinky promise to not put backdoors in software any more? Are industries developing smart munitions going to dismantle themselves out of politeness?
2 u/supernatendo 01 May 2016 16:44
"We don't want the government to regulate us!" 10 minutes later: "We have to get the government to create a law against using programming to lie!" 10 minutes after that "We need to create our own governing body like lawyers and the bar", Another word for that is a government. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pYUHwIl0O8
This guy keeps on saying dumb things. It would take hours to go over every stupid thing he says.
Also, his delusional, hubris filled "We rule the world" statement.
"You wanted to be safe from the government so you formed a stupid government." - Rick and Morty
1 u/supernatendo 30 Apr 2016 21:52
False equivalency.
Sure, if every aspect of self driving cars were hard-coded I'd agree, but these are machine learning systems which makes this an entirely different concept than someone writing buggy IRQ handling that causes a kernel panic.
As machine learning tools use larger and larger neural networks, a bug here and there actually become less of an issue when compared to the grand scheme of things. It's why imperfect CPUs are making comebacks Source
Every human makes errors, no human brain is making 100% perfectly accurate computations, yet we still manage to do things "good enough" to have created modern civilization.
-1 u/roznak 30 Apr 2016 14:26
He is spot on, one bad programmer can bring down an enterprise, or kill people when a bug is introduced in the self driving car. We are at a time where coding has deteriorated so badly that we are at a verge that it will kills lots of people.