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red-iron-pine • today at 8:07 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

so you're implying the tornado warning system is gonna come alive and skynet us?

* must protect from adverse events * [proceeds to herd us into camps]


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eithed • today at 9:33 PM

no. weather isn't intelligent, it's not alive, yet humans treated it as a god in the past and gave it agency; we understand how it works, yet cannot control it or predict it.

but I digress - the main thing: these systems are not alive. They pretend to be.

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