novalis comments on Intelligence explosion in organizations, or why I'm not worried about the singularity - Less Wrong

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Comment author: novalis 28 December 2012 02:40:31AM 1 point [-]

Most software companies plan to automate as much of their work as reasonably possible. So: it isn't clear what you mean.

Are you saying that most software companies have code which modifies code (no, CPP, M4, and Spring don't count), or code which modifies humans? Because that has not been my experience in the software industry.

Comment author: timtyler 28 December 2012 12:06:09PM *  1 point [-]

Most software companies plan to automate as much of their work as reasonably possible. So: it isn't clear what you mean.

Are you saying that most software companies have code which modifies code [...]

Examples of automation in the software industry are refactoring, compilation and unit testing. The entire industry involves getting machines to do things - so humans don't have to.

Comment author: novalis 28 December 2012 06:40:00PM 0 points [-]

Automation is not the same as recursive self-modification. There's no loop.

Comment author: timtyler 28 December 2012 11:54:05PM -2 points [-]

The context is GIT improving GIT - where "GIT" refers to all the humans and machines involved in making GIT.

So: there's your loop, right there.

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