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Being able to interface with a computer on an instruction level basically allows you to circumvent the mathematical limitations of our biological pattern matchi

• kyberias 12y ago
  I don't see any obvious reason for you being downvoted but maybe you should elaborate on this: "mathematical limitations of our biological pattern matching apparatuses".
  • debacle 12y ago
    I'm getting downvoted because I made a comment below about how I was more interested in the statistics behind this phenomenon than the people, and apparently that's not okay. This post was at +4 before people started downvoting all of my comments on this discussion. I'm not too worried about it. Some people need to cling to that iota of power that an inverted triangle can offer.
  • cwal37 12y ago
    Probably because it's way over the top. That comparison proposes that people who can't program have a huge mental deficit compared to those who can. There are plenty of programmers out there who are not particularly proficient at thinking, and plenty of extremely intelligent people who aren't programmers. It's a needlessly breathless and self-congratulatory comparison, with limited perspective on the outside world.
    • alexbecker 12y ago
      I don't think the comparison means that programmers can think better than non-programmers, but that computers can (for certain problems) and that programmers can take advantage of that.