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Do you feel similarly about written language?


A computing architecture doesn't need to use a language.

The language is there for our benefit, not the machine's. I'm merely suggesting that all these (by now, countless) languages are getting in the way of efficiency. If we have something in mind that we want the computer to do, why not just do it in hardware directly, as that would provide the most optimal efficiency?

I don't 'feel similarly about written language', because written language is kind of important for human communication. Last I checked, human brains have very little in common with computers and our capabilities are not the same as a computer's. We are not computers, we're social organisms. So we need written language. One could even say that we need written language to do 'our work'. Society would fall apart without it.

But I guess if there were a better way to communicate or record/relay our thoughts to others, I'd be all for it.




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