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tolciho | 2 months ago

> This completely explains why so many engineers are skeptical of AI while so many managers embrace it: The engineers are the ones who understand it.

Curiously some Feynman chap reported that several NASA engineers put the chance of the Challenger going kablooie—an untechnical term for rapid unscheduled deconstruction, which the Challenger had then just recently exhibited—at 1 in 200, or so, while the manager said, after some prevarications—"weaseled" is Feynman's term—that the chance was 1 in 100,000 with 100% confidence.

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