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My dad is 80 and willingly loves to listen to me explain how neural networks work, then he also read about them, busy beaver functions, kafka, and all kinds of

• twosdai 3y ago
  Not the original poster, but the more frightening part of the sentence, is the "not understanding how something works part" over the "becoming my father" Getting to a point where realistically you're not able to know something deeply but then still use it is pretty frightening. When I say deeply I don't necessarily mean that for every device you need to know about all of its atoms, but to have a pretty good framework for how the thing works deterministically, and how it can fail.
  • pantulis 3y ago
    > Not the original poster, but the more frightening part of the sentence, is the "not understanding how something works part" over the "becoming my father" That was my point, exactly.
  • semi-extrinsic 3y ago
    So unless you have a solid grasp of quantum mechanics and solid state physics, using any electronic device is frightening?
  • thoughtpeddler 3y ago
    > Getting to a point where realistically you're not able to know something deeply but then still use it is pretty frightening. This now applies to most things in modern industrial society. We operate our daily lives at a crazy high level of abstraction. I think for a lot of us on HN, we "know too much about what we don't know", and that is ... overwhelming. Funny enough, most people are actually able to operate at these higher levels of abstraction without worrying too much, because they don't know enough about what they don't know.