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You don't need to understand something to build it. After all natural selection built our minds with just trial and error and no design at all.
by zby 14y ago
You don't need to understand something to build it. After all natural selection built our minds with just trial and error and no design at all.
- RyanMcGreal 14y agoYes, but it took a couple billion years for natural selection to do it, and it's a Texas sharpshooter fallacy to draw a target around a currently observed humanity that could have turned out much differently. Us hitting that same target in decades rather than millennia is a staggeringly different exercise.
- tompko 14y agoExcept that we're rapidly becoming better shots, and we're aiming at a target that's already been drawn.
- eterpstra 14y agoExactly. I could build a program to play checkers, and have it beat me at checkers every time I play it.
- snowwrestler 14y agoGreat, now build a program to play Go, and have it win every time.