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by z5h 490 days ago
> Readability is a property of the reader, not the language.

Similarly, the inability of a person to write machine code directly is a property of the person, not the hardware. Yet some of these people admit their limitations and use K.

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Silicon computers are a crutch for the people too flawed to run their calculations in their head.
"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that the thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind it motion..."
Chinese has a readability issue to the English speaker. That doesn't mean it's not readable.
The original comment is a joke
This comment would seem to address the point of that joke
Do you mean that not everyone use butterfly yet? How quaint!
Butterflies? Easier to catch a caterpillar and set it on the right path to one day flap its wings in just the desired way.
Caterpillar? Too high tech. I just restart the universe until the problem is pre-solved.
Let me sell you an AI that genetically engineers caterpillars to do just that.
But can it also provide instructions to set the universal constants at the start so the universe evolves the desired result?
I just asked it and it said yes.
Let there be light!