Arthur C. Clarke: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
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@FlohEinstein our technology is absolutely magic.
Think of computers and processors, we literally etch patterns into rocks and metals and then make it think by inducing it with lightning.
Explaining that shit 300 years ago would have gotten you burned at the stake.
@Sonikku @FlohEinstein Thinking? Hardly, unless you have a very limited definition of thought. Don’t get me wrong, it still is magic to me, but computers don’t “think” in any meaningful way. -
@FlohEinstein Case in point, those horrible corporate printers.
@madengineering @FlohEinstein
I think we can safely say that *all* printers are cursed.And just in case anyone brings up Brother printers - they might be the least cursed, but they're still cursed.
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Every bug has two parts.
The thing that’s broken.
And the part where it waits until Friday at 4:59 PM to reveal itself. lol.
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@FlohEinstein MMmmmmhhhhh yesss!
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@FlohEinstein I imagine Spock would raise an eyebrow and say "Logical."
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@FlohEinstein And I keep getting cursed over and over
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@FlohEinstein I love this. Can I share and attribute this to you?
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@FlohEinstein Truth!
May I quote you on that?
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@FlohEinstein I love this. Can I share and attribute this to you?
@iaintshootinmis of course, as with everything I say or post, it's CC-BY-SA
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@FlohEinstein and the more complicated command line tools even require n curses to do their magic!
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@FlohEinstein Truth!
May I quote you on that?
@drwho of course, my utterings are CC-BY-SA
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This lends toward there being a specific ratio of Mysticism to Explanability, of course Multiplied by Coefficient of Human Stupidity...
Oh dear, help us all if Raised to the Power of AI... if we dare.
Yep, it's basically philosophical mathematics. I knew first year Philosophy Class would pay off one day!
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This lends toward there being a specific ratio of Mysticism to Explanability, of course Multiplied by Coefficient of Human Stupidity...
Oh dear, help us all if Raised to the Power of AI... if we dare.
Yep, it's basically philosophical mathematics. I knew first year Philosophy Class would pay off one day!
@NathanMurdock I still strongly suspect that there is a finite amount of intelligence assigned per planet. We are already thinning it out with the number of humans. No amount of killing dolphins and apes will save us from the dwindling supply, and now we created AI...
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@Sonikku @FlohEinstein Thinking? Hardly, unless you have a very limited definition of thought. Don’t get me wrong, it still is magic to me, but computers don’t “think” in any meaningful way.
@hypolite @FlohEinstein was just thinking how to describe it to someone 300 years ago heh.
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@FlohEinstein I fix computers and sometimes when a customer looks at me and say something like "how have you fixed that?"
I wiggle my pen and say "just shake the magic wand abd say the magic words and it's fixed"Not many people laugh.
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@NathanMurdock I still strongly suspect that there is a finite amount of intelligence assigned per planet. We are already thinning it out with the number of humans. No amount of killing dolphins and apes will save us from the dwindling supply, and now we created AI...
@FlohEinstein that is pure insight. As the population skyrockets, intelligence per capita begins to quickly degrade. We attempt emergency compensation through artificial means which serves only to exacerbate the problem. This is fully Planet of the Apes but, I'm just plug my own micro-fiction:
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@FlohEinstein And those of us able to fix these indistinguishable problems are wizards. I guess magic is still alive and well.
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@hypolite @FlohEinstein was just thinking how to describe it to someone 300 years ago heh.
@Sonikku @FlohEinstein Fair enough, I've been jumpy recently as people have more frequently attributed thought to computers because of the newfangled natural language interface. -
@Sonikku @FlohEinstein Fair enough, I've been jumpy recently as people have more frequently attributed thought to computers because of the newfangled natural language interface.
@hypolite @FlohEinstein completely understandable.
