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> "It won't ever do this thing" and "ok, it kind of does it in simple cases and may do it in increasingly complex cases as time goes on" are two very different
by Tao3300 3y ago
> "It won't ever do this thing" and "ok, it kind of does it in simple cases and may do it in increasingly complex cases as time goes on" are two very different statements with a gulf between them.
Until it's perfect, the amount of trust you can have in the latter case makes it equivalent to the former. There's no gulf really — you can't count on what the code "may do".
- kromem 3y ago"It will never win a chess game" "Ok, it can win a chess game, but if we don't actually keep track of the moves it is making we'll have no idea if it can win a chess game, and therefore it's the same thing as if it can't win a chess game." You can always read code you didn't write, by the way.