malte on Nostr: Weizenbaum's claim was that computers can't make decisions guided by values. They ...

Weizenbaum's claim was that computers can't make decisions guided by values. They don't understand real values. They can only calculate. And they do that very well. The problem is when you start giving computers tasks that are actually not calculating tasks but decisions that include value judgements. The computer will inevitably transform that judgement into a calculation. We know this perverse transformation is possible because humans themselves routinely do it.