RichardKennaway comments on Rationality Quotes: April 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 04 April 2011 11:08:19PM 1 point [-]

API's made by the superintelligent creators of this universe? Personally, no.

Comment author: soreff 05 April 2011 12:41:34AM *  4 points [-]

Actually, what I had in mind was Microsoft - though their products don't pass the "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" test. Opacity and incomprehensibility (the spell checker did what?) is within their grasp...

Comment author: David_Gerard 05 April 2011 09:43:05AM 6 points [-]

Worse: APIs grown by evolution. Evolution makes the worst BASIC spaghetti coder you ever heard of look like Don Knuth by comparison.