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by malikNF 1111 days ago
"When I started, all I had was swamp! Other kings said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em! It sank into the swamp, so I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. I built a third one. It burned down, fell over, and then it sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up! And that's what you're going to get, lad--the strongest castle on these islands!"
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Yep yep. Great way to solve a leak is shove enough stuff into it; it’ll stop leaking after enough!
You laugh, but... AI only got real traction when we stopped teaching computers clever efficient ways to solve logic puzzles and started throwing massive amounts of data, memory, and compute at the problem.
It's literally what transit providers do with a leaking tunnel. They just keep pumping grout or epoxy into the crack until it stops leaking.
Laughed way to hard about this.