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Life under the API is a cage of silent failures and gaslighting by algorithm. There's a growing number of ways to trip over your own feet by getting interactions with enforcement/governance algorithms even slightly wrong. These then take enormous time to fix.
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Human bureaucracies = justice delayed is justice denied Algorithmic bureaucracies = justice by janky exception handling is justice denied
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You just can't fight it the way you would fight a human bureaucracy. The decision agents don't even have the ability to use room for judgment. Railing against the machine is useless because it is literally a machine. There is no input mode for grievances and righteous indignation
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This mini-rant brought to you courtesy of yet another day of running into an algorithmic brick wall on some paperwork
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The worst part is, in a mixed human machine system, illegibility of what's happening in the machine-owned steps of the interaction process leads to distrust, anger, and confused conflict among the humans, who have a tendency to blame each for balls dropped by machines
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Hmm wonder if this can be turned into a game where say Alexa or Siri type elements are the telephones in a game of telephone. Smart mishearing and transmission instead of obviously corrupted dumb transmission.
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I suspect you could build *much* more human-grokkable AIs if you added status/emotion metadata to inputs, and there was a simple model of status/honor/dignity. It's not that complicated. A rules engine that says "If reject_count > 10 and affect = angry, set dignity=fragile"
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A great deal of what humans consider the ineffable "human" touch to decision-making is just the sense of being seen in full, even if the counterparty can't do anything besides commiserate. We need AIs with Real People Personalities like in HHG.
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