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I think the problem is that our intuition is more or less based on a mechanical world in which the concept of a side-effect free or ineffective input is foreign
by omeid2 8y ago
I think the problem is that our intuition is more or less based on a mechanical world in which the concept of a side-effect free or ineffective input is foreign.
- gowld 8y agoI suspect it's more that our intuition is that everything is meaningful, or at least something is, so when the solution to is to ignore the only thing you have at hand, it's hidden in plain sight.
- posterboy 8y agoThis goes so far that the phrase "nobody knows" is described by grammarians as having a zero pronoun, ie. "nobody knows (it)". "it" doesn't need to be specified, because nobody would know what it is, and so nobody cares. Correspondingly, functional programmers use to write "f(_)" and in prolog for example that acts as a catch all glob operator, if I recall correctly, not sure about Haskell.