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The paradox is the part where things that are hard to write down (i.e. do laundry, trim your fingernails, make a sandwich) seem extremely easy and seem like the
by drcode 12y ago
The paradox is the part where things that are hard to write down (i.e. do laundry, trim your fingernails, make a sandwich) seem extremely easy and seem like the first things machines would have taken over, whereas things that are easy to write down (playing chess, arming nuclear missles, diagnose a tumor) seem very hard but are relatively easy for a computer to do.
(And yes, it still doesn't qualify as a paradox, in the mathematical sense.)
- forthefuture 12y agoI don't know, the first group of things is wholly physical, and the second group is wholly digital. It's incomparably easier to build things (and rightfully so) that never touch the physical world because you don't have to build any physical hardware manufacturing infrastructure.