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barring collapse two possible eventualities: one where the public views programmed systems like augury/semi-divine decider and programmer class exploits this as societal control mechanism
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that is they feel these systems like how the ancients felt divinition: grounded in truth and wisdom, inscrutable to them but perfectly legible to those who specialize in it
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like "reading tea leaves" is now a stock phrase for random guessing. this would not be seen as we see "reading tea leaves" but as it was seen when it was done in earnest by people of great esteem
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the other scenario is one in which the public feeling and the programmer class comportment are the same but the truth is they effectively do just perform augury
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natural result of system complexity and layered-ness, or natural result of standards for programmers not being particularly high?
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(I guess people who can do any amount of coding are going to be smarter in aggregate than people who can't, but you know what I mean)
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bit of both, balance determined by context
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there's a process I like to call the rails problem
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domain experts tired of doing busywork they understand well enough create an abstraction to get rid of it
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this makes them vastly more productive but their understanding is not diminished because they know what they are abstracting over
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eventually though the abstraction gets pleasant and usable enough that new people start showing up and only ever learning the abstraction
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and this works well enough almost all the time but then one day they run into a problem caused by something underneath the abstraction and are totally fucked
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Best example of programmers also treating "the algorithm" as a deity: them using dating apps.
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our lives are already ruled by inscrutable algorithms; this will be only a quantitative change. source: looking for jobs rn
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also, The Economy
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programmed systems (including people) aren't particularly self-aware either
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