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by indemnity 3067 days ago
He suffers from the affliction, that, having mastered programming, all other domains of human endeavour must be as reducible to simple logical constructs, and the world just needs him, to come and show how simple it really is.

It’s crazy how many think they have a monopoly on intelligence by virtue of being able to tell the machine what to do.

A logical statement in isolation is seen as sufficient to win arguments (like “babies have no money at birth”).

Wow, thanks Socrates, now I see the light. The scales have fallen from my eyes.