Theory: “computers are terrible,” “lol, computer,” etc. often is a cop-out, short circuits useful inquiry into “why? What can we do now?”
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Those jokes are often made in jest. Any seriousness is from non-technical people who don’t understand the problem.
Fine: “how do we get from here to there?”
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I suspect you overestimate how much consensus any single solution has accrued.
No, but it is part of getting from here to there.
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mostly I hear this from folk who have a solution in the present, but despise the 40 years of legacy they're building on
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though I guess there it's often a more emphatic "fuck computers" than "lol computer r terrible"