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Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by nradov on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @11:22PM (#21532760)
You can carve a block of wood into something that looks like a computer. That should be a good start on building a device that can run Linux, right?
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Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by rfhjt on Thursday November 14, 2019 @01:03AM (#21533149)
Yes. Then you just cast a spell to summon a computer spirit and let it manifest into the wooden block.
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Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by de_watcher on Thursday November 14, 2019 @04:05AM (#21533939)
Bad analogy, it's other way around for Linux. We are building it to run on wooden blocks that hardware manufacturers are producing.
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Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by buboard on Thursday November 14, 2019 @04:32AM (#21534089)
the first computers were mechanical. Then somebody carved a facsimile with electricity and we got computing. Just because nature founded intelligence in carbon atoms doesn't mean its the only way or indeed the optimal one.
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