Some people believe that learning programming is so general, it helps you think about every kind of problem! Seems unlikely. Most truly, globally competitive fields where people take every edge they legally can, like baseball, do not send their contenders to coding bootcamp.
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I think learning Programming really did help me to become a better thinker. I think everyone should spend a little time, programming, and a lot of time writing.
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Computer science and theoretical math do make you a better thinker. For example they taught me how to be exact. They also taught me that if you think for long and hard enough, you'll solve the problem. The improvement is general - can't use for loops and induction in real life.
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Programming, fundamentally, is constructing and finding ways to make things work. It's planning in it's raw form, where the plan is the end product. I'd argue that this is a skill that is universally useful. It could be equivalent to intelligence, depending on definitions.
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Is this some kind of test?
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Oh my god, it is, isn't it? This is a rather elegant solution, though I fear it won't scale all the way up to alignment. That, or you just felt like a parody tweet of some sort?
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