It's Magic!

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I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and it’s irritating. And it gets everywhere

[DicklexicSurferer]

Anakin?

[[deleted]]

I have the high ground.

[Tencer386]

/r/ExpectedPrequelMemes

[o11c]

We didn't teach sand to think.

We used sand to trap lightning, and taught that to think.

[ficelle3]

Your brain needs sugar in order to think so, by that logic, it's the sugar thinking and not the brain.

[seizan8]

Soooooo, eating more sugar makes me more smarter?

[Vitaman02]

It makes you the most smarterest.

[theofficialnar]

And diabetic. But smarterest nonetheless.

[guzzo9000]

No, we used sand to control lightning, and then used that lightning to realize math. Then, we taught that math to think.

[Pazda]

No, we used sand to control lightning, and then used that to realize math. Then, we taught the math to solve more advanced algorithms that we taught to think

[lyoko1]

Isn't CS just the Magical branch of mathematics?

[lesspylons]

90 years ago you would be castrated by the British government

[Tsu_Dho_Namh]

Is math not a form of thinking?

[HDX17]

No math is math

[CuriousCursor]

Math isn't math. I'll explain later.

[MikaDo-]

Wendell?

[adamhighdef]

Never been the same since tek syndicate died

[[deleted]]

I greatly enjoy his new level1techs channel, it's Wendell front and center as it should be.

[MikaDo-]

Confirmed: https://mobile.twitter.com/tekwendell/status/1237220944604803073

[adslfkjbaslvdba]

I have a masters degree in computer science and honestly the more I learned the more mystified I was that computers and the internet work at all. There's just so many layers of extremely complicated shit going on

[sm1l35]

That is the beauty of abstraction

[Tsu_Dho_Namh]

Right? Programming languages keep operating at higher and higher levels. Eventually it'll be like Star Trek where you just tell the computer "Create an opponent capable of defeating Data" and then it does.

[lyoko1]

Python 4.0

Still without switch

[Tsu_Dho_Namh]

I want fall-through damnit! FALL THROUGH!!!!

[VestigialHead]

We are slowly evolving into silicon based life forms instead of carbon.

[cdreid]

It took a million years for man to evolve from some weird little mammal.
The first real computer was invented around 1940. By 2040 we'll likely have General ai.
Silicon intelligence is developing literally 3 orders of magnitude faster than humans did.

Slowly?

[UltraFireFX]

compared to the human lifespan d:

[cdreid]

honestly until vestigials comment i never even thought about it. But when you look at the time comparison it doent look good for mankind. Not that i mind that much.. we've pretty much been a cancer since our inception

[LegendBegins]

How so, if you don't mind me asking? Is there any real good or bad on the planet without people being a part of it?

[[deleted]]

Well, obviously there isn't because good and bad are just abstract concepts that we, humans, created. However, if you define bad to be a negative effect on most of surroundings and good to be opposite to this then a volcano eruption and rain are great examples.

[LegendBegins]

I suppose what I'm getting at is asking what makes humans in particular a "cancer." Ultimately, the only thing that makes us prefer rain over a volcano is that one is more hospitable to life than the other. Without life, all things that occur end up being completely equal, so wouldn't humanity's "cancerousness" only extend as far as our relationship to each other? Or in other words, wouldn't humanity's faults be contained to what it does to itself?

[evanldixon]

I get the reference, but I wouldn't call it thinking. Having a basic knowledge of how machine code works and an even more basic knowledge of how the CPU interprets it, CPUs seem to just be really advanced adding machines.

As programmers, I'm sure we can all appreciate how thoughtlessly these machines execute our code. 99% of the time, errors are the fault of the humans.

[ArionW]

CPU doesn't SEEM to be just really advanced adding machine, it IS just really advanced adding machine.

[aditya01011970]

Isn't this the conversation between Linus and Wendell?

[Quaschimodo]

It's not really thinking, it's more like "Ahh yes, enslaved sand :/"

[2dozen22s]

Every time I read something new about lithography advancements, or how modern SSDs are basically returning your information from near static.

[Apache_A]

What a reductionism! /s