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Amplifying your mind by programming the tools you need is more like bicycling without a trail over rocky ground, walking it up steep slopes and carrying it over
by hyperpallium 7y ago
Amplifying your mind by programming the tools you need is more like bicycling without a trail over rocky ground, walking it up steep slopes and carrying it over fallen trees, than it is like bicycling on a road.
Programming is helpful for finding cases you didn't think of and remembering the details you aren't working on right now (like writing) - but only for programming.
Writing is the bicycle of the mind.
- eternauta3k 7y ago> Writing is the bicycle of the mind Are you thinking about Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_of_Fact,_the_Truth_of_Feeling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_of_Fact,_the_Truth_o...
- hyperpallium 7y agoNo, but thanks for the link - I don't think I've read that one (though I can never tell from Ted's titles). Text: https://web.archive.org/web/20140222103103/http://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2013/the_truth_of_fact_the_truth_of_feeling_by_ted_chiang https://web.archive.org/web/20140222103103/http://subterrane... Maybe I should have said "Language is the bicycle of the mind", but we didn't invent that.