It sounds like Michael Wilson’s “We must program the AI in LISP, because if we don’t, LISP purists will spend the next several subjective millennia arguing that it should have been done in LISP.”
EDIT: Read the XKCD. It sounds like typical Strossian cynicism about how the ‘Singularity’ will look like a malfunctioning computer or something. Obviously not talking about the intelligence explosion.
It sounds like Michael Wilson’s “We must program the AI in LISP, because if we don’t, LISP purists will spend the next several subjective millennia arguing that it should have been done in LISP.”
EDIT: Read the XKCD. It sounds like typical Strossian cynicism about how the ‘Singularity’ will look like a malfunctioning computer or something. Obviously not talking about the intelligence explosion.
Not sure I see that—this is about how non-computer people think about computers, not about the real behaviour of a real singularity.