In computer science there is a saying ‘You don’t understand something until you can program it.’ This may be because programming is not forgiving to the kind of errors Eliezer is talking about. Interestingly, programmers often use the term ‘magic’ (or ‘automagically’) in precisely the same way Eliezer and his colleague did.
In computer science there is a saying ‘You don’t understand something until you can program it.’ This may be because programming is not forgiving to the kind of errors Eliezer is talking about. Interestingly, programmers often use the term ‘magic’ (or ‘automagically’) in precisely the same way Eliezer and his colleague did.