But I think it's fine for the difficulty of telling a machine to do something complex to be proportionate with the complexity and specificity of that task.
So if I were making a photo album and I really wanted to tell the computer to put photos in a certain place on the page (instead of where it put them), I should have to articulate that fact in some way to the computer. Nothing is going to save me from having to clarify my thoughts to myself, and there's a certain limit to how easy we can make having to clarify that thought to the computer. I think dragging a mouse is pretty good, but maybe we'll have telepathic interfaces.
What about websites and URLs? You're sitting in front of a machine millions of times more powerful than the computers used to send men to the moon and asking it to send encrypted payment information across a vast network of other such nodes around the world to your financial institution. That's pretty crazy! I think it's a marvel that average people with no special education on the topic manage to do this every week. I wonder how nicely we could smooth it over further without making it unintentionally more confusing.
But I think it's fine for the difficulty of telling a machine to do something complex to be proportionate with the complexity and specificity of that task.
So if I were making a photo album and I really wanted to tell the computer to put photos in a certain place on the page (instead of where it put them), I should have to articulate that fact in some way to the computer. Nothing is going to save me from having to clarify my thoughts to myself, and there's a certain limit to how easy we can make having to clarify that thought to the computer. I think dragging a mouse is pretty good, but maybe we'll have telepathic interfaces.
What about websites and URLs? You're sitting in front of a machine millions of times more powerful than the computers used to send men to the moon and asking it to send encrypted payment information across a vast network of other such nodes around the world to your financial institution. That's pretty crazy! I think it's a marvel that average people with no special education on the topic manage to do this every week. I wonder how nicely we could smooth it over further without making it unintentionally more confusing.