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> Is this any different than saying that nowadays most people in the USA are physically weaker and less able to work on a farm than their predecessors? Yes, fa
by MrMcCall 2y ago
> Is this any different than saying that nowadays most people in the USA are physically weaker and less able to work on a farm than their predecessors?
Yes, far different, because we can still go to the gym and throw medicine balls around or swing kettle bells and do dead lifts and squats if we want to stay fit.
There is no substitute for exercising our ability to logically construct deterministic, hardened, efficient data flow networks that process specific inputs in specific environments to produce specific changes and outputs.
Maybe I'm the only one who understood the most important factor the eminent Leslie Lamport explained in grisly detail the other day, that, namely, logical thinking is both irreplaceable and essential. I'll add that that nerdiest of skillsets is also withering on the vine.
"Enjoy." --Daniel Tosh
- orangecat 2y agoThere is no substitute for exercising our ability to logically construct deterministic, hardened, efficient data flow networks that process specific inputs in specific environments to produce specific changes and outputs. Factorio?
- MrMcCall 2y agoOf course. And every single microprocessor and their encompassing support systems and the systems they host and execute. Every single system, even analog ones, because it's all just information flowing through switched systems, even if it's solely measured in something involving coulombs. Also, fundamentally, living cells and the organisms that encompass them, because they all have a logically variable information flow both within them and between them, measured in molecules and energy. They're extraordinary and beautiful.