when trying to characterize human beings as computational systems, the difference between “person” and “person with pencil and paper” is vast.
Am I missing something? Why is this quote so popular? Is there something more to it than "you can do harder sums with a pencil and paper than you can in your head"? Or, I guess "writing stuff down is sometimes useful".
Another month has passed and here is a new rationality quotes thread. The usual rules are: