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Instructions are intentional, ink isn't.

• dartos 2y ago
  “Instructions” as in directions for accomplishing a task and “instructions” as the binary signals we send to a CPU to process are not the same. CPU instructions may very well not be intentional. Do you know every instruction that your compiler spits out? My point is that calling software just “instructions” is overly reductive. They very fact that CPU instructions can have semantic meaning shows that.
  • galaxyLogic 2y ago
    Of course, instructions always have semantic meaning, whether we give them to the computer or to the humans. The compiler/interpreter/AI translates the instructions I give in a high-level language or now even in natural language to the computer. So in this sense any intentional speech is "software" too.