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This can be said for anything. An electrician is a magician already. A painter is a sorcerer. A programmer creates life.
by seoulmetro 3y ago
This can be said for anything.
An electrician is a magician already. A painter is a sorcerer. A programmer creates life.
- rideontime 3y agoA more relevant comparison would be the people on youtube demonstrating how to "ground" your bed by sleeping on a mesh wired to a pole in the ground.
- shrimp_emoji 3y agoI think, in the limit, you're right. I think it's cool I can understand an algorithm and what it does, but, once it becomes machine code, my understanding utterly ends. What's the CPU doing with it? Have I even delidded my CPU to make sure there's actually silicon in there and not pixie dust? Forget the computer; how does my own brain work? Nobody even knows how brains store memories. A neurologist might know a lot more than I do, but maybe this is all a solipsistic simulation where I'm a brain in a jar and the neurologist is just an NPC controlled by a fancy AI. Perhaps, in reality, the feeling that you know what's going on was always a foolish conceit. It's magic all the way down. Astronaut with gun: always has been. I guess I have to find comfort in degrees because otherwise I feel very helpless and stupefied by that way to view the world.