James Webb telescope confirms there is something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe

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James Webb telescope confirms there is something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe
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Hey, they always do exactly as they're told!

Hrm, in that case, now I wonder how they are ever correct!?:-P

As a Software Engineer, I ask myself that question several times per day.

Bc chips are as dumb as rocks, but really really really good at repetition:-).

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Easy, think about who decides whether or not they're correct.

Again, humans.

For now... except managers don't want to actually think, yet do want to be in control of even the tiniest aspects of every single fucking thing (see e.g. Boeing planes literally falling out of the sky, against the wishes of the engineers bc the managers figured that this way of skipping maintenance and then covering that truth from federal safety commissioners was "better"... for the sake of their profits ofc), so how soon until their unthinking need to "feel like" they are in control leads them to using computers to control the people, without even those humans who hold the admin rights ever making any conscious decisions?

I suspect that a thinking computer may be correct far more often than an unthinking human.:-D