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    [–] Smokeydope 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

    Ah, yes the good ol days of punch cards, switch boards, mechanical operators and electron tubes, when will the youngins learn that their fancy transistors are for pussies

    Personally I inscribe all of my code into binary on a fired clay tablet and store it in a cave for archival purposes

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    No I meant the real computers

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Low level accountants in the early 20th century.

    No binary monstrosity could ever replace just doing it in your head.

    [–] Smokeydope 5 points 10 months ago

    I always appreciated Dunes idea of a mentat, basically an accountant trained from birth and juiced up on brain steroids to have equal computing ability to a high level AI. Usually when I think of the way human conciousness may evolve and trancend its current capabilities my mind goes right to the psychadellic-bro conciousness expansion and non-localized astral projection stuff, its interesting to consider there are other potential paths to augmenting human conciousness and what other boundaries could be pushed.