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A comment on "We Really Don't Know How To Compute" - Sussman keynote at Strange Loop.

Re:"We Really Don't Know How To Compute" - Sussman keynote a... by seats on Friday July 29, 2011 @04:21AM (#2820719)
Reminded me of this PZ Myers post that really rips into Kurzweil. There are problems with too simplistically thinking of DNA as a program.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/08/ray_kurzweil_does...

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Re:"We Really Don't Know How To Compute" - Sussman keynote a... by Confusion on Friday July 29, 2011 @10:15AM (#2821847)
Well, it's easy to rip into a straw man.

http://www.kurzweilai.net/ray-kurzweil-responds-to-ray-kurzw...

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