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I agree especially with the aspect of once you grasp the underlying truth of what the thing really is, you can't resist embracing it and making it a part of you
by etherael 17y ago
I agree especially with the aspect of once you grasp the underlying truth of what the thing really is, you can't resist embracing it and making it a part of you. It almost sounds like a choice between ignorance and enlightenment, but history tells how rare the latter and how common the former. Perhaps the entire endeavour is simply not conducive to normal human psychology.
If we are to assume that this is the case, is the ultimate result something of a guarantee of a class of professional developers marketing their wares to an ADHD afflicted mass of semi sapient, sycophantic, glad-handling humanity?
I want another path, I know wanting something doesn't make it real, but I can't help it on this one I don't think.
- wtallis 17y agoThere is solace in the fact that we can build really powerful tools like web browsers with social networking apps or CAD programs and normal people can use them if we design them well enough. But Turing-completeness hasn't gone mainstream, and it doesn't look like it will anytime soon. So that leaves us hoping for a breakthrough in AI, because that's what it will take for a computer to be able to always understand the user's intentions.