I upvoted the grandparent to −1 at first, for that reason. But I reversed this at 0 because I saw you imputed the bird argument to him and he didn’t use it (nor would it make sense for him to do so).
Also, I don’t know what Othello has to do with Moore’s Law.
No doubt a detailed enough emulation of bird body motions would in fact fly. It is true that a century ago our ability to create detailed bird body simulations was far less than our ability to infer abstract principles of flight. So we abstracted, and built planes, not bird emulations. But this hardly implies that brains must be understood abstractly before they can be emulated.
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I don’t know what Othello has to do with Moore’s Law.
Too bad he stopped being funny a few years back, while smbc is consistently great and covers the LW-relevant themes in a lot of detail, though I won’t risk linking it here.
YMMV. I think xkcd is consistently amusing, but smbc is a mix of good LW relevance and pointless penis humor. Go ahead and link any relevant smbcs you find in future. The one linked above doesn’t really have anything to do with the argument it’s mocking, which in turn isn’t being endorsed by anyone on here. That’s probably why you got downvoted, though I don’t know firsthand.
Hmm, I wonder if I pressed some hot button, given the silent disapproval.
I upvoted the grandparent to −1 at first, for that reason. But I reversed this at 0 because I saw you imputed the bird argument to him and he didn’t use it (nor would it make sense for him to do so).
Also, I don’t know what Othello has to do with Moore’s Law.
On planes and birds:
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what Othello?
Othello was a Moor. Moore proposed the law. Up a couple, you confused the two.
I think the lesson here is that in the set of [webcomics with unpronounceable four-letter names] LW leans more toward xkcd than smbc.
For one thing, if Munroe made that joke you know he’d have actually done the math.
Too bad he stopped being funny a few years back, while smbc is consistently great and covers the LW-relevant themes in a lot of detail, though I won’t risk linking it here.
YMMV. I think xkcd is consistently amusing, but smbc is a mix of good LW relevance and pointless penis humor. Go ahead and link any relevant smbcs you find in future. The one linked above doesn’t really have anything to do with the argument it’s mocking, which in turn isn’t being endorsed by anyone on here. That’s probably why you got downvoted, though I don’t know firsthand.