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Ancient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgot (infosec.pub)
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Apparently a page from an internal IBM training manual. Some further attempts at source it

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[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 18 hours ago

This... requires a person to look at the profit numbers. To care about them, even. I'm not really sure what you're getting at.

I think you're saying that computers can be very good at chess, but we are the ones who decide what the rules to chess are.