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by tim-tday 17 days ago
”Do not worry about your problems with Mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater.” Albert Einstein

At a certain point you know enough about how the sausage is made that the youthful illusion of love is impossible.

Every machine is reasoning given form. The spatula encodes understanding that the pancake needs a flat supportive surface to help it flip without breaking. Computers happen to be general purpose solutions to arbitrary problems. It’s fine to love the solution To a problem and not the embodiment of the solution.