[ajuc]

There's a pretty cool article about trying to understand electronics and fix a radio the way we try to understand biology. https://mappingignorance.org/2014/07/02/biologists-cant-unde...

So now instead of improving the tools of biology so we can actually understand it deeply - we increase complexity of IT so we have to rely on muddy, side-effecty tools of biology to try to infer some of the properties of the systems we made. That's depressing.

[EvanAnderson]

I feel crushing sadness when I think about how humans made these wonderful deterministic machines that we can understand and manipulate to do our bidding. Within a scant few generations, though, we've managed to effectively turn them into "magic boxes" that, soon, we'll only be able to poke and prod at when they don't do what we want.