Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Existential Risk and Public Relations - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 18 August 2010 03:06:41PM 15 points [-]

who has never written a single computer program

utterly false, wrote my first one at age 5 or 6, in BASIC on a ZX-81 with 4K of RAM

The fact that a lot of these reactions are based on false info is worth noting. It doesn't defeat any arguments directly, but it says that the naive model where everything happens because of the direct perception of actions I directly control is false.

Comment author: timtyler 18 August 2010 03:13:06PM *  0 points [-]

That sounds like a pretty rare device! Most ZX81 models had either 1K or 16K of RAM. 32 KB and 64 KB expansion packs were eventually released too.