Autocoding evolves from........

[Martijn Faassen]

phil hunt <philh at comuno.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> One thing that puzzles me is why Tim wants help: as he says, we're
> all too stupid to understand his grand design (as well as being 
> arrogant). 

> Since he is so much cleverer and far-seeing than everyone else, he'll
> have to code it himself, as no-one else is clever enough to understand it.

No no no..while *some* of us are stupid enough to understand it, some of
us would understand it if we only tried, and in fact are ignoring 
auto-coding as it's a threat. It's a psychological thing; we're not stupid,
but we don't like to see auto-coding so we just ignore it. This is 
arrogant and pretentious, perhaps.

Anyway, besides those two categories (too dumb, unconsciously scared) there
are those of us who are smart enough to see it and can look it straight in
the eye, but deliberately suppress the knowledge because we'd be out of
a job. We'll call this the 'evil' category.

As Tim has some faith in humanity, he assumes there's a rare fourth
category that is smart enough and brave enough and is in fact *good*,
and that this category will help him create the auto-coding system.

At least that's my theory. I may be off completely.

Regards,

Martijn
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