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Sounds like these systems need a little red killswitch under a plexiglass cover. It's baffling to me that anyone who's ever designed an automated system thinks there won't be situations where a human has more complete awareness of what's happening and needs to unambiguously wrest all control.


It's usually not that simple. The majority of complex systems have substantial portions of their operation effectively invisible to us.

Electricity, radiation, remote or sealed mechanical systems, deeply layered software.

In all of these, you need systems to communicate actual state to a human to effect even a manual resolution.




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