@ami_angelwings I expect this is about limiting liability rather than any lack of ability. If the hospital mistranslates a document they’d be liable for any problems that causes, but if the patient does it then it can’t be their fault.

Which sucks and isn’t how the world _should_ work but there is a twisted logic to it.

@demofox NGL, that’s sorta how we ended up here in the first place. It’s looking at a hard social problem, saying “ew, fuck that”, then deciding to solve a hard technical problem instead. The problem isn’t actually fixed, and eventually the consequences come for you, much harder to solve after years of entrenchment.

I understand the desire to do this. Viscerally. But I don’t think it works.

@eniko IMO the sign of actual experience is speaking more confidently about something the more specific the case is.

Like, in my field: "How do you make a game render fast?" is not a question I can really answer. But "how do you fix [specific bottleneck on a certain type of GPU]?" very much is.