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    10 months ago

    My grandpa always used to say that computers used to be way better before they became electrical.

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      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

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          Low level accountants in the early 20th century.

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

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            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.