Jonathan Blow

This will result in software that's too slow, obviously. But it also affects what one thinks is possible, what one dares to imagine to do. That is the more important part. Humans are very example-based, and if our examples are wrong, where they lead us will be wrong too.

By the same logic rockets wouldn’t work because people can’t walk fast enough on their hands. Sounds like TED talk fluffery

If you try to design rockets, and the imagined rocket in your head is 1000x off the capabilities of a real rocket, you probably ain't getting to orbit. I am not sure where walking-on-hands comes from.

You’re using singularity level fluff talk to inflate the basic concept that the better you understand a system the better you can work with it.

Are you a programmer?

Yes.

If you are a programmer and you think that what I am saying is "singularity-level fluff talk", then I am afraid you are exhibiting exactly the problem I am talking about. This isn't singularity-level anything, it is objective reality today.

The only reason it would sound like "singularity-level fluff talk" is if indeed your picture of a computer is way slower than what they actually are, such that 1000x greater performance sounds like some far-future singularity thing. It's not. It's what we would get if we