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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Yes you should. I think most comments here are about products that have millions of users where it’s actually worthwhile spending all that extra time and money to perfect things.

    For most development, it isn’t worthwhile and the best approach is to wing it, then return later to iterate, if need be.

    The same goes for most craftsmanship, carpentry in particular. A great carpenter knows that no-one will see the details inside the walls or what’s up on the attic. Only spend the extra time where it actually matters.

    It triggers me immensely when people say “I could have made a better job than that” about construction work. Sure maybe with twice the budget and thrice the time.



  • systematic teaching of humans, where we are teaching each other causal relations. The two are fundamentally different.

    So you mean that a key component to intelligence is learning from others? What about animals that don’t care for their children? Are they not intelligent?

    What about animals that can’t learn at all, wheere their barains are completely hard wired from birth. Is that not intelligence?

    You seem to be objecting that OPs questions are too philosophical. The question “what is intelligence” can only be solved by philosophical discussion, trying to break it down into other questions. Why is the question about the “brain as a calculator” objectionable? I think it may be uncomfortable for you to even speak of but that would only be an indicator that there is something to it.

    It would indeed throw your world view upside down if you realised that you are also just a computer made of flesh and all your output is deterministic, given the same input.