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The stupidity of computers is starting to get frustrating. As a software developer working on a distributed storage system, I've profiled my placement algorithm and after some thought have decided there is a better strategy based on a common use-case scenario. I create a branch in my repository and try out my changes. In the mean time my colleagues have made changes to the development branch I diverged from. My computer cannot seem to be able to run the differential of the profiling function against my diverged branches and tell me whether my changes validate my assumptions from a simple query (nor whether the combined changes would continue to validate my assumptions before I merge them... it couldn't even construct the profiling function for me).

Ontologies seem like just the tip of the iceberg.

It seems more likely to me that instead of a general-AI we're more likely to be able to map and simulate a human brain within a computer.



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