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points by purpleidea 1 day ago | 0 comments

The incompetence in the world that is likely the underlying cause for this, is a serious cancer that is ruining our society. We need to speak out even against what seems like lesser issues, because we normalize that behaviour until it perverts everything.

[–] paimapi 1 day ago

How do you even speak to the ineffable idea of 'incompetence'? How do you remediate it? More draconian, individualized worker surveillance?

This feeds into the idea that the problem with safety these days are lazy workers, not the fact that companies are increasingly extending work hours beyond what's reasonable, firing keystone employees and shoveling more work onto the remaining individuals, and operating with a general disregard of regulatory safety guidelines around training and rest.

The reality is very different: https://www.railway.supply/renfe-rejects-drivers-union-claim...

> On rolling stock, the union wants lasting technical fixes for reliability. It further calls for correct application of breaks in driving time under article 36 of Royal Decree 929/2020 and an end to the block on early-retirement reduction coefficients under Royal Decree 2621/1986. Two further demands concern a May 7 agreement on hiring new entrants as trainee drivers and a 1990 agreement on support for drivers involved in incidents where a person is hit by a train.

>On new drivers, Renfe called the claim that recruits are being kept on training scholarships false. It said none of the 402 drivers who have joined are on a scholarship.

[–] nullocator 1 day ago

The incompetence isn't necessarily with the workers, it can be coming from those at the top.

[–] panarky 1 day ago

Yes. Modern levels of reliability and safety don't come from workers trying harder or caring more, it requires systems, procedures, controls, redundancy, fail-safes.

[–] snikeris 1 day ago

We could return to basing hiring decisions on merit.

[–] paimapi 1 day ago

Help me understand a historical period when this was ever the case.

Social historians have been debunking the thought-terminating cliche that we ever had a trend of merit-based hiring since time immemorial:

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-myth-of-meritocracy-r...

https://archive.org/details/meritocracymyth0000mcna_n6g9

https://historicalstudiesineducation.ca/index.php/edu_hse-rh...

[–] blks 1 day ago

What’s it based on now?

[–] freejazz 1 day ago

Huge assumptions there

[–] ImHereToVote 1 day ago

Whoa. Let's not go crazy here.

[–] superxpro12 1 day ago

without a doubt someone made a lot of money by arguing against the regulations required to prevent this.

we need to eliminate profit-based motives for safety critical areas.

[–] avereveard 1 day ago

Why do worker accept to work in such conditions? Its like driving tired every day. Eventually you fuck up. Where was the union?

[–] pstuart 1 day ago

> How do you even speak to the ineffable idea of 'incompetence'?

I think it has to start with daylight: all of the relevant info accessible to the public.

Adversaries can/will counter with fake data, narratives, etc, but if there's a trustable source of that daylight data that is a huge start.

[–] AdrianB1 1 day ago

Incompetence and laziness are very different things. You can have very hard working, engaged, active people that are still incompetent for the job they are supposed to do.

[–] ericmay 1 day ago

> This feeds into the idea that the problem with safety these days are lazy workers, not the fact that companies are increasingly extending work hours beyond what's reasonable, firing keystone employees and shoveling more work onto the remaining individuals, and operating with a general disregard of regulatory safety guidelines around training and rest.

It's both. The nihilism (see France riots for ex) and general incompetence that many of us see in the workplace or in our dealings with, for example, government agencies, and in our dealings with others is obviously there too and needs to be rooted out.

How do you deal with incompetence? In Europe I have no idea because of labor laws. In America we should probably be aggressively firing bad workers and grifters, and at the same time increasing wages and benefits and providing for items like safety and proper rest for those who actually want to show up and get things done.

[–] leesec 1 day ago

lol this is spain dude. these people are not working long hours

[–] pvaldes 1 day ago

Let me fix this for you. People in Spain work exactly the same than in other European countries.

[–] baobabKoodaa 1 day ago

You think all people in all European countries work exactly the same amount of hours?

[–] tchalla 1 day ago

You think that people in Spain work a lot less than other European countries?

[–] nradov 1 day ago

Well people in Spain have a lot less working hours than in other European countries such as Greece, Poland, and Malta. Whether work hours means doing actual work or just loafing around is harder to measure.

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

[–] paimapi 1 day ago

From your own link, of all the EU nation states Spain is pretty much middle-of-the-pack for per-worker hours.

Another counterpoint: higher work hour countries have higher rates of death per kilometer of active track [0]

Greece (highest in the EU for work hours) = 22.3 rail deaths per 1k kilometer of track followed by Portugal (another high work hour ranking) with 6.2, Portugal (about 200 more hours than Spain annual) at 6.2, and Hungary (at about 100 more hours) at 5.8.

The only two countries with less deaths per 1K KM of track and more work hours are Ireland and Estonia. All the rest (Denmark, Sweden, Austria, Finland, Slovenia, Luxembourg) have less annual work hours than Spain.

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/d...

[–] baobabKoodaa 1 day ago

No, I don't think all people in Spain work the same number of hours. Also, I think "other European countries" are not a homogenous group, average number of hours worked differs per country.

[–] avereveard 1 day ago

List european countries with summer provision for friday half off

[–] pvaldes 1 day ago

Probably none, as those are exclusive decisions of each company and vary wildly between different activities.

Workers that toke half of the Friday agreed with their companies to start Monday-Friday one hour earlier, so what's the problem exactly?

[–] threetonesun 1 day ago

Once upon a time I did root cause analysis professionally, and a trainer told us if you attributed the root cause to people without finding malice you were just being lazy. At the very least I doubt anyone to blame here was actually involved in the accident, but someone who decided it was not in the budget to put an automated system in place faster.

[–] guiriduro 1 day ago

They had an automated system, it had failed earlier in the day in that section causing trains to be signalled to stop. Then they had a manual go-slow human backup protocol which appears to also have not been observed - some drivers were given clearance to continue as normal. Swiss cheese of compounded failures, with tragic results.

[–] sdoering 1 day ago

And what are the systemic practices in place that led to people not following the official protocol?

Because if the system punished compliance and rewarded such behavior, you now have a systemic issue underlying the "people are lazy".

[–] guiriduro 1 day ago

> And what are the systemic practices in place that led to people not following the official protocol?

I guess we'll find out. Apparently one of two drivers who were given the go ahead for normal operations requested additional confirmation because he or she (rightly) thought go-slow was the expected response for transit resumption under the fallback protocol. Some incompetence in the control authority Adif, then, but I'm sure that'll be the focus of the inquiry they will no doubt have.

[–] port11 1 day ago

To be fair, train crashes happen rarely enough that the safety procedures are in place and work (at least most of the time).

[–] baobabKoodaa 1 day ago

In Spain they appear to happen rather frequently

[–] baobabKoodaa 1 day ago

I'm so fucking tired of you people constantly trying to reduce human accountability after accidents like this that claim lives. It's always the fault of the system and never the fault of any people. As if we are all just cogs in a machine that is controlled by no-one. It is your fatalistic worldview that is directly causing accidents like this. How many more people have to die before we can fix things? Just stop.

[–] awhitby 1 day ago

Obviously individual people can be at fault, but it is this further process of asking _why_ individual people fail—pointing to systems, procedures, cultures—that has (in part) contributed to the extraordinary safety of aviation.

So I would say on the contrary, it is that systems worldview that actually leads to lasting improvements. Because human nature is not changing in a hurry.

[–] jiggawatts 1 day ago

Systems and procedure are created by people.

Culture is literally just “how people collectively behave”.

It’s people all the way down!

If you update the artefact without replacing its creator, they’ll just “fix” it to their taste again when you leave.

[–] yowayb 1 day ago

i personally think that incompetence is actually the norm. that such things like trains even exist, imo is very much due to extraordinary people being incentivized to do extraordinary things. trains are extraordinary to me. this is not to diminish your sentiment in any way.

in fact, i think your sentiment is fundamentally the same that drives extraordinary people to do extraordinary things! it's a deep dissatisfaction with the way things are, and when it's coupled with resources, support, etc., that's when impressive things happen!

this also means that i don't think it helps much to shame people broadly or politicize the matter.

[–] athrowaway3z 1 day ago

Who wants to design a basic cryptographic p2p lock between trains that limit their speed 30km/h if they're not able to get proof they're alone on a track; when the alternative is to debate endlessly about whom to blame, and which billion-dollar conglomerate has the technical prowess to sit on the committee to debate the specs for a much worse system.

[–] baobabKoodaa 1 day ago

Of course HN wants to fix train crashes with a "cryptographic p2p lock". On a blockchain, presumably.

[–] athrowaway3z 19 hours ago

I could have been more precise, but it's the same ideas underpinning HTTPS and git - long before blockchain became a hype.

Did you instead want to build some central hub that grounds all train traffic if unreachable, or create a bunch of semaphores that anything can overwrite by accident or on purpose?

I'm genuinely curious here.

I can understand being intimidated by concepts outside your wheelhouse, but if you have a simpler solution you'd feel safe with i'm all ears.

I'm not saying this is all there is too it, but I am saying all the other design choices like recovery modes, operator experience, etc - should build around cryptography between tracks and trains.

We can call them cryptographic semaphores if that makes your brain turn on again.

[–] baobabKoodaa 17 hours ago

I don't know anything about trains so I can't really propose a solution. I just thought your proposal was funny in that it was very "HN flavored" in a domain that is somewhat far from typical HN domains. Not saying if it's good or bad, just saying I thought it was funny.

[–] hdhxbsbsbshs 1 day ago

The only way to achieve higher levels of competence is to enforce higher levels of accountability. Over the last couple of years Spain has suffered major infrastructural catastrophes without any leadership being held accountable at all. It’s not unreasonable to consider jail time or even capital punishment for such gross negligence.

[–] footydude 1 day ago

> It’s not unreasonable to consider jail time or even capital punishment for such gross negligence.

It is entirely unreasonable to consider capital punishment.

* an eye for an eye solves nothing - it doesn't bring dead people back to life, it just results in another person killed

* it's not an effective deterrent, it won't change how people act more than the risk of jail-time will

* it's unethical. It sounds like 'justice' if your idea of justice is simple retribution, but it completely undermines the concept of redemption - it advocates treating people as unfixable and unable to atone for their 'sins' and instead of limiting the pain and suffering - it spreads pain to more people

* no system is perfectly and inevitable you will end up punishing somebody with death based on faulty / flawed evidence that only later comes to light as being flawed/faulty. You can't bring a dead person back to life and say "sorry we got it wrong"

* finally - and perhaps most critically - tragedies such as these are almost the result of failures across an entire system with 10s, 100s, sometimes 1000s of people each culpable to varying degrees with many 'sliding doors' moments where such a tragedy could have been avoided had a different decision been taken. Sure you can always simplify things and point to the symbolic figurehead and say they are ultimately accountable and should take the ultimate responsibility for the group's failure (bonus points if in doing so you highlight how well paid they are to take on such a responsibility). But what you'll arrive at isn't justice and higher standards - instead you'll just have another dead person, killed in cold blood and the generic hope that somehow that additional death will act as a stronger driver of change than the already very real deaths that occurred in the tragedy itself.

[–] consumer451 1 day ago

> or even capital punishment

You lost me at that part. It is entirely unreasonable to consider that in the vast majority of the world, where state-sanctioned killing of citizens has been abolished.

[–] bob1029 1 day ago

The OP wrote:

> capital punishment for such gross negligence

"gross negligence" is a very specific legal test.

> Gross negligence is a lack of care that demonstrates reckless disregard for the safety or lives of others, which is so great it appears to be a conscious violation of other people's rights to safety. Gross negligence is a heightened degree of negligence representing an extreme departure from the ordinary standard of care. Falling between intent to do wrongful harm and ordinary negligence, gross negligence is defined as willful, wanton, and reckless conduct affecting the life or property or another.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/gross_negligence

[–] qup 1 day ago

Your viewpoint sounds good in argument on forums, and I'm sure it scores you points.

But there's a reason they used to execute people in the public square.

[–] codeduck 1 day ago

And people flocked to watch executions - for entertainment.

Capital punishment has never been about deterrence, nor has it ever been an effective deterrent.

[–] qup 1 day ago

It has never been an effective deterrent? You really believe that?

Not even once?

[–] codeduck 21 hours ago

Oh, I'm sure it might have been marginally effective in some very specific circumstances.

But that was far from the norm. In the hope that you might actually go and educate yourself somewhat on the topic, here is the Times report on the last public execution ever carried out in England, that of Michael Barrett on 26 May 1868.

https://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/Timeline/Execution.htm

It certainly sounds like it had the effect you claim it does, doesn't it?

[–] klaff 1 day ago

But that reason wasn't good.

[–] pbrum 1 day ago

Tell that to the relatives of the dead. What you said was true and today is true. But will it be true tomorrow?

[–] sva_ 1 day ago

At least the people responsible for wasting about a quarter billion euros on trains that are too wide for Spains train tunnels seem to have resigned.

[–] pvaldes 1 day ago

The history was a little more complex than that. The trains were not too wide, they were the right legal size where ordered.

The problem is while the trains were being built, the laws changed, requiring now extra space between trains and tunnels to evacuate people.

The only solution would be to dump all the trains and start from scratch in a new design for narrower trains that still keep the same comfort and safety levels. This is not realistic.

If you order a car that has legally given the green light to be built in 2026, the government can't say in 2027 that your car must had measured 1m less. Would be unfair for buyer and maker. Unless the government can show a very solid reason, they must accept the car model for the expected years of car life. This is why we still can drive legally cars with no airbags, and with toy seat belts. Cars that no way would be accepted to be built today.

Who ordered the trains was doing everything right, the problem was created by who changed the specifications in the middle of the process.

[–] AdrianB1 1 day ago

Is resignation a true restitution for wasting a quarter billion euros? Is the tax payer made whole?

[–] saidnooneever 1 day ago

its not only in spain where this type of issues have been on the uptick. people not getting jailed can be indicative also of the whole story not being told.

[–] pvaldes 1 day ago

We don't tolerate capital punishment as society, keep walking cowboy.

[–] saidnooneever 1 day ago

no clear cause has yet been named. it can be many things and ultimately they will always blame human error because it gives away the least information about what really happened.

malfuncitoning equipment. humans, geopolitical agendas against europe... there can be a lot of things going on here.

dont jump to conclusions and be skeptical of what people shout.

[–] bob1029 1 day ago

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

[–] redoxate 1 day ago

Your point being ?

[–] noJiveTV 1 day ago

you question indicates what the parent warned against

[–] pvaldes 1 day ago

At this moment, may be incompetence, but I wouldn't discard still a sabotage that go out of hand.

A computer system failed, stopping 6 trains, we don't know why. The proprietary automatic brake system of Siemens was working fine for 30 years, but it was too old, maybe too expensive and being replaced by a different system (non proprietary?). This shouldn't had caused any problem, as stopping the trains when a problem happens in the railway is the by-default security protocol.

Somebody then ordered the trains to keep moving, even if there was still a train stopped. We still don't know why this person didn't saw that light in the screen, or why in the age of mobile phones and internet, he/she was unable to warn about the second train.

And a Spanish train that should be moving slowly after such events by protocols, was moving at 150-200 Km/h near a train station before to crash into the Italian train, in a perfectly sunny day. It does not make any sense and, seemly, it goes directly against the security protocol.

We don't know still if the machinist tried to stop the train and the brake system failed, or didn't even tried to stop the train (maybe suffered a dismay or a heart attack?). Survivors say that they didn't noticed a decrease of speed before the impact. Black boxes will clear that in the next weeks.

For foreign journalists, to paint Spain as a third world country is practically a sport, and they love to write the word 'siesta' for some strange fetish, but the reality is that this is one of the most modern high-speed train systems in the planet, and worked like a charm for more than 30 years until now.

And this must be taken in a whole context of hybrid war, including strange delays and strange train accidents all around Europe in the last two or three years (Poland, France, etc). We can safely assume that hybrid war will be more vicious the more desperate are the Russians, and this another added source of chaos happened suspiciously close to the November Spanish elections with plenty of strikes and riots that happened to occur overnight.

Taking the whole context, the probability of all of that happening by chance at the same time before the elections, is basically zero.

[–] pvaldes 1 day ago

> And a Spanish train that should be moving slowly after such events

Update. A second security system should had stopped the train automatically in the next red semaphore (or reduced the velocity to 40Km/h) without machinist intervention. That system was down also. And control had 17 minutes to warn the incoming train and to talk directly with the Italian train, but they apparently failed to do it.

So at least there are two different automatized computer security systems that failed on a row, plus a control center that acted in a strange way, plus a machinist that may, or may not, had tried to pull the brakes and she is missing.

And now they are saying that a former minister of employment was traveling in that train and she is also missing.

[–] iggldiggl 10 hours ago

> Update. A second security system should had stopped the train automatically in the next red semaphore (or reduced the velocity to 40Km/h) without machinist intervention. That system was down also.

No, it wasn't, from the way things have presumably played out, the scenario has simply hit an inherent design limitation. Namely LZB (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linienzugbeeinflussung) is the primary signalling and train protection system, but as a fallback, conventional colour-light lineside signalling together with the corresponding conventional train protections system (ASFA) has also been provided.

As a fallback system however, the lineside signalling has been set up with much longer signalling sections than the LZB, i.e. one conventional signalling section comprises multiple LZB signalling section. As such, it is still perfectly safe and serviceable, with the only immediate drawback that capacity will be significantly reduced due to the longer signalling sections (and also slower running speeds – the lineside signalling is limited to 200 km/h max).

The only problem comes in when you need to make an unscheduled transition from LZB to lineside signalling because of an LZB fault – while at first the trains will be safely braked to an immediate stop, you may now have ended up with multiple trains (all safely inside their own LZB block section) within the same lineside signalling block section. Which means that now there is no "next red semaphore" to prevent the second/third/… train from running into the train in front.

The proper procedure therefore is to untangle the trains by running them out of that accidentally shared block section one at a time and most likely at a reduced speed, too, but for some reason that procedure wasn't followed here…

[–] suburban_strike 1 day ago

It wouldn't be the first time in history sabotage by "Russians" resulted in the collision of opposing forces near Toledo.

[–] pvaldes 1 day ago

And wouldn't be the first also that "Russians messing with elections" meant exactly: Russians messing with elections.

If you have a better explanation by all what is happening in Europe just right now, with perfectly coordinated teams of people seeding chaos and unrest, I will hear it with maximum interest.

And yes, I know that Trump is not exactly a friend of anything latino related unless he can take advantage of it, and is specially unfriendly with the Spanish president.

My bet is that all of this will suddenly stop after Russia collapses by the self-destruction of their economy triggered by a chain of Putin's unhinged decisions

[–] bijohugy 1 day ago

Could it be cultural? I remember after the Asiana Airlines crash, the experts were saying part of the problem was due to culture.

[–] cameldrv 1 day ago

I was just listening to the EconTalk podcast, and the guest was a Spanish demographer that specifically said that Spanish train system was being starved for funding in the past 10 years or so. This is because the population is aging, and all of the growth in the economy is being directed towards pensions and health care for the rapidly growing number of retirees.

[–] soon_to_be_sb 1 day ago

I feel that mixing up best picture Oscars was a watershed moment...It sort of spoke to me that the whole world is going to shit....

[–] danielvaughn 1 day ago

Ayn Rand gets a lot of hate from the philosophy world, and Atlas Shrugged is definitely not a good novel by any means, but you have to give her credit for basically predicting where we are now from way back in the 50's.

[–] qup 1 day ago

The Library of Congress rated it the second most influential book of all time, after the Bible.

That's why I read it.

It's very cool, especially on HN, to say how terrible it is. But, as we used to say in rebuttal: scoreboard!

[–] kbelder 1 day ago

I can understand a lot of the dislike of that novel, but her description of how the United States slowly falls apart due to culturally-reinforced incompetence is worth appreciating.

[–] netsharc 1 day ago

I was incredulous, I wondered what sort of LoC does book rankings like it's Buzzfeed, I thought "Maybe it's the LoC after a Trump-infestation or DOGE", but (1):

> In 1991 the Book of the Month Club and Library of Congress asked readers to name the most influential book in their lives: Atlas Shrugged came in second only to the Bible.

The fact that you equate a survey result (who knows who heard of the survey, or if there was a campaign to skew the results) to the LoC giving it a rating, and "that's why I read it", and you think this is a good rebuttal, reveals to me a lot about you.

(1) https://www.atlassociety.org/post/ayn-rands-atlas-shrugged-p...

[–] matwood 1 day ago

Regardless of how that one survey was done AS ends up on many best US fiction book lists. The 90s may have also been one of the AS peaks, as I recall being told to read from multiple people (family and teachers). From your own link:

The novel made the New York Public Library’s list of Best Books of the Century in 1996, and Radcliffe Publishing ranked it 92 out of the top 100 novels of the 20th century. In 1999, Atlas Shrugged was number 37 in the list of 100 Favorite Novels of Librarians. A Harris poll placed Atlas Shrugged on America’s Top 10 Favorite Book List in 2008, and The Modern Library ranked it the number one best novel published in the English language in 2009. The novel is listed as number six on Boston Library’s list of 100 Most Influential Books of the Century, and it ranks number five on the list of the 20 Most Inspirational Books ever written. Atlas Shrugged has been translated into 14 languages, including Chinese (2007).

From a story perspective, I found AS too long and preferred The Fountainhead. Were they influential to my younger self? Sure, much like the Bible was to me as an atheist. A story with both good and bad ideas to draw from.

[–] qup 1 day ago

Uh okay, but I read it on the library of Congress website.

I read the novel about 24 years ago. I was a teenager, and I read a lot of books. Seemed like a good enough reason at the time.

[–] pbrum 1 day ago

Expand, I'm interested in this take

[–] danielvaughn 1 day ago

From what I can remember (of reading the book 25 years ago), it predicted an increasing suspicion and resentment of excellence and competence, coinciding with a rise in socialist sentiments. The net result is that various aspects of society would begin to break down as the total amount of competence in the culture vanishes.

I think she attributed too much of the symptoms merely to socialism; obviously the world is more complex than that. But we've got this train crash, the ongoing issues with Boeing airplanes, several multi-billion dollar public infrastructure projects across America that have stalled and will likely never be completed (like the California high speed rail system), the list goes on.

[–] keeda 1 day ago

To me it seems the opposite is happening: the push for higher profits by the Capitalists is overriding the competence of rank and file, resulting in these disasters. And all these profits just shoring up wealth that is accruing unequally to those same Capitalists is what is inciting socialist sentiments.

To me Ayn Rand's writings always seemed like an Economics Horror story: effective at instilling dread in its readers, but of some highly unrealistic boogeyman.

[–] danielvaughn 1 day ago

When I said that the world is more complex than that, I meant that she oversimplified it. To say that the opposite has happened is also an oversimplification.

[–] keeda 1 day ago

It's a more correct oversimplification than the other one though ;-)

Like I'd be really curious to see evidence of people saying, either directly or indirectly, that "we should be suspicious of competence and excellence."

On the other hand, you already mentioned concrete evidence of money-seeking causing disasters: Boeing.

[–] rationalist 1 day ago

Did capitialism cause this train crash? I suppose it is too early to say what exactly happened.

[–] keeda 1 day ago

Right, we don't know about this one, but typically there are some corners being cut somewhere or some other money motive lurking in the background, like the Boeing one OP mentioned.

[–] whynotrand 1 day ago

Why don’t you like AS?

[–] Thegn 1 day ago

Won’t speak for the poster, but in my experience the incompetence of the average person is only exceeded by the incompetence of the ownership class. The people Ayn Rand lauded are usually the largest obstacle to actually Getting Shit Done.

[–] signatoremo 1 day ago

What is your experience of the incompetence of the ownership class?

[–] amanaplanacanal 1 day ago

Competence in what, is the question. Obviously they are competent in making money. The biggest scammers are also competent in making money too, though.

Look at the current US President, for instance. He is richer than any of us will ever be, but what exactly is his competence?

[–] freejazz 1 day ago

Look at the world around. Look at the train crash.

[–] whynotrand 1 day ago

Do any great companies have poor executive direction/leadership?

[–] snikeris 1 day ago

"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."

[–] gonzalohm 1 day ago

Incompetence on whose part?

[–] qup 1 day ago

So incompetent we don't even know who to blame

[–] ai-x 1 day ago

Autonation is the only true way out of incompetence.

Eventually everyone will come around e/acc.

[–] yomismoaqui 1 day ago

You meant "automation", right?

For a moment there my first tought was that "autonation" might be something like the concept of a nation made by the individual itself or something like that.

We need to create a word for typos/autocomplete errors that have a positive result like this on the reader.

[–] AdrianB1 1 day ago

Automation of a bad process or security measure is not a way out of the incompetence of people who designed it. Automation of garbage only brings more garbage.

[–] ai-x 1 day ago

Why would anyone automate a bad process.

When Waymo automates self-driving it isn't automating bad drivers. So are robots on Amazon warehouses

[–] AdrianB1 14 hours ago

Because the people with automation targets are not the same people responsible for the quality of the process and you get what you measure. Been there, done that.