From: Lyle Burkhead (LYBRHED@delphi.com)
Date: Sat Sep 28 1996 - 00:38:24 MDT
I wrote
> There are many points where a decision has to be made
> by somebody who has an understanding of the project as a whole,
to which John Clark replied,
> Then complex things would never get made by humans.
> No one man, no ten men have a deep understanding of an airliner
> or a microprocessor or the software that lets it do interesting things,
> it's too great for one mind to grasp, at least a mind as puny as a human.
John, if you uploaded yourself into better hardware, you would just
miss the point a hundred times faster.
The rest of my statement --
> ...and who understands the purpose of his activity.
> Such decisions require human judgment.
to which John replied:
> The purpose of his activity is to make money, but that's
> even more complex than manufacturing because not even a billion men
> understands the economy in any depth.
This is very boring.
Lyle
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