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> Sometimes the best solution is not a technical solution I once came across an early 1950s Scientific American article by Bertrand Russel, IIRC. It included a
by a9h74j 4y ago
> Sometimes the best solution is not a technical solution
I once came across an early 1950s Scientific American article by Bertrand Russel, IIRC. It included a cartoon.
Frame one: Computer beats man at chess.
Frame two: Man unplugs computer.
- Vecr 4y agoHow about this? Frame one: man beats woman at chess. Frame two: woman shoots man with automatic pistol. Not sure how deep the original really is if you think about it...
- weird-eye-issue 4y agoThe problem is you are trying to make something "deep" when it wasn't trying to be
- a9h74j 4y agoIIRC, Russel's thesis was something to the effect of ultimate supremecy of man over machine. I associate "Sept 1952" as the issue. The last frame suggested a certain obviousness and nonchalance in the man unplugging the computer, as if no great debate would be involved. I wonder if the article itself might now evidence too much of innocence back in that day, aside from a prediction that computers would eventually beat humans at chess. Too much innocence regarding technological imperitives and the technosphere?
- Konohamaru 4y agoIt's not comparable because computers are things but women are not.
- Vecr 4y agoMy intention was for the woman to shoot the man, it's possible I wrote it wrong. They could be both men or aliens or even computers/robots with human like intelligence. If they were both thinking computers the "pistol" could really be a human paid in Monero to go smash the other computers hard drives and backups.
- CydeWeys 4y agoWhat?! That's not comparable at all. The computer isn't murdered, it's just off. Also even if you did destroy the computer, that's not murder.