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I’d love to extent this reasoning to other machinery. A child can lift ten pound objects, and a crane can lift ten pound objects. A child can speak, so surely
by dullcrisp 2y ago
I’d love to extent this reasoning to other machinery.
A child can lift ten pound objects, and a crane can lift ten pound objects. A child can speak, so surely a crane can speak.
- ethbr1 2y agoI think multitasking is the mental trap. People seem to do better reasoning about unitasker tools.
- GTP 2y agoMore than multitasking, I thing the problem is with computers being "general purpose" machines.
- monkpit 2y agoAlso, to someone who doesn’t understand how a crane works, it’s use and function are somewhat apparent by looking at the machine. A computer doesn’t look like it does any particular thing. If it can do surprising thing A, what about surprising thing B? C?