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waldrews • yesterday at 6:50 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Soon enough, it'll be 'Could we not entrust our safety critical systems to those emotional error prone humans? Pretty Please?'


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sdeframond • yesterday at 7:19 PM

I feel that we have to mention Stanislav Petrov now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

bayindirh • yesterday at 7:31 PM

As far as I know, critical systems like reactor control software is mathematically proven first and verified after implementation. I don’t think you can go beyond that.