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jsteinhardt comments on The Inefficiency of Theoretical Discovery - Less Wrong Discussion

19 Post author: lukeprog 03 November 2013 09:26PM

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Comment author: jsteinhardt 04 November 2013 10:37:07PM *  0 points [-]

Program analysis consists of writing computer programs that reason about other computer programs. Is the objection that these programs were written by a human? That seems like a strange objection to me if so.

Edit: oops, replied to wrong comment.