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Are programmers going to become gods

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-20 7:46

by programming programs so smart and powerful they can do ALL human tasks better than humans? I'm new to programming but I like the idea of my programs being smarter and stronger than people. Sex-wise too. I've decided not to settle on programming in one "language" but to include all types of programming so diversity will bring strength and inbuilt failsafes. I think this will give me an enormous advantage over most on /prog/ who swear allegiance to one program. Thoughts?

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-20 7:56

What the hell have I just read.

Name: VIPPER 2011-06-20 7:56

The fÜck?

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-20 7:57

>by programming programs so smart and powerful they can do ALL human tasks better than humans?

Sounds more like, using the same language, programmers are going to program gods.

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-20 8:07

>>4
OP here, NO we do NOT need to use the same language! Every program should use several "languages" so the strengths of each are working together, just like us programmers should be working together to make "super-programs"!

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-20 8:11

I can solve the Halting Problem.

Name: 2011-06-20 8:13

I can solve >>6's Drinking Problem.

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-20 9:08

>Are programmers going to become gods
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist-scientist

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-20 9:18

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-20 9:20

>>1
That's not going to happen until you show me a program that is described using a language that is Turing complete and solves the halting problem or can solve NP-hard problems within P time.

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-20 9:33

>>9
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Name: Anonymous 2011-06-20 9:54

>>10
If you combine all the programming "languages" into one program you solve all those problems.

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-20 11:57

i think it will go even further and programmer will turn into me

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-20 20:59

hmm, interesting question, OP

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-20 21:29

>>12
What would you call that? Common Lisp or Visual Prolog?

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-20 21:39

>>12
Some problems just don't admit algorithms that can solve them in reasonable amounts of time (if they are solvable at all). If a problem can be solved by computable means and its solution can be reached in a finite amount of time (no matter how large), all you need is enough resources and time, both of which are finite so far in our universe, but if you do find yourself in a nicer universe and in a more comfortable state of existence, you could always just wait (pause yourself) until the computation is over.

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-20 22:06

>>12
Racket

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-20 22:38

>>15
Why does it even need a name? This is a vision of the future where one is not controlled by "names" and "languages". Where one has the freedom to use ALL names and languages to create a program that is so much more than the sum of its parts. Where talking about total freedom in programming that can only be realized if you stop this patriotic-like allegiance to one language/name.

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-20 23:23

Great thread

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-20 23:28

>>15
Visual Lisp

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-20 23:34

>>20
Visual L#

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-21 0:00

>>21
Lisp/CLI

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-21 0:18

>>10
This is an approximation.
(define (halts? code)
  (display code)
  (newline)
  (display "Will this code halt? [yes/no] ")
  (let ((x (read)))
    (if (eq? x 'yes) #t #f)))

(halts? '((λ(λ)(λ λ))(λ(λ)(λ λ))))

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-21 0:38

Java will rule the world one day. Skynet will be run by it. Just you watch.

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-21 1:58

>>24
Yeah, because Java is portable.

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-21 4:41

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-21 7:22

>>5
What the fuck, I meant language as in word choice, not programming languages. Fucking troglodyte.

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-21 8:34

>>27
point still stands, idiot

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-21 8:40

just shut up and use python like a good boy

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-21 8:58

fucking lisp fags

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-21 11:36

>>1
That's already done. It's called Lisp.

Name: Anonymous 2011-06-21 13:25

>>31
FUCK OFF AND DIE (((LITHPER))) FAGGOT

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