Re:Ask HN: What most controversial opinion do you hold?
by mindcrime on Monday November 12, 2018 @07:07PM
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Taxation is theft.
If you're looking for something not political, I'd go with something like:
1. The web-browser shouldn't try to be a knock-off operating system, and should delegate many things to native code using protocol handlers or some-such.
2. Groovy is a totally badass programming language and is way under-appreciated today.
3. The Semantic Web vision remains alive and is continuing to develop and is one of the most important initiatives out there, short of us developing AGI.
4. An AGI might have "human level" intelligence in dis-embodied form, but I believe an AGI would need to be embodied and sense the world somewhat like the way we do, to truly have "human like" intelligence.
If you're looking for something not political, I'd go with something like:
1. The web-browser shouldn't try to be a knock-off operating system, and should delegate many things to native code using protocol handlers or some-such.
2. Groovy is a totally badass programming language and is way under-appreciated today.
3. The Semantic Web vision remains alive and is continuing to develop and is one of the most important initiatives out there, short of us developing AGI.
4. An AGI might have "human level" intelligence in dis-embodied form, but I believe an AGI would need to be embodied and sense the world somewhat like the way we do, to truly have "human like" intelligence.