Bog: You are correct. That is, you do not understand this article at all. Pay attention to the first word, “Suppose...”
We are not talking about how calculators are designed in reality. We are discussing how they are designed in a hypothetical world where the mechanism of arithmetic is not well-understood.
Did anyone else get so profoundly confused that they googled “Artificial Addition”?
Only when I was half way though the bullet point list that it clicked that the whole post is a metaphor for common beliefs about AI. And that was on the second time reading, first time I gave up before that point.
Bog: You are correct. That is, you do not understand this article at all. Pay attention to the first word, “Suppose...”
We are not talking about how calculators are designed in reality. We are discussing how they are designed in a hypothetical world where the mechanism of arithmetic is not well-understood.
Did anyone else get so profoundly confused that they googled “Artificial Addition”? Only when I was half way though the bullet point list that it clicked that the whole post is a metaphor for common beliefs about AI. And that was on the second time reading, first time I gave up before that point.