And it’s not the bible… maybe 🙂
If you want to understand computers top to bottom this is the book for you.
You won’t be able to write programs after but you’ll understand how they work.
This is a book you can take your time reading. It goes through all the basics. Masters in any subject master the basics.
TLDR takeaways from this book?
Computers aren’t dumb. Computers aren’t smart. They take inputs and give outputs. They have NO capacity for intelligence!
Here’s the intro (amazingly prophetic for where we are and a bonus to how great this book is)
The title of this book is the punch line of an old joke that goes like this:Joe is a very nice fellow, but has always been a little slow. He goes into a storewhere a salesman is standing on a soapbox in front of a group of people. Thesalesman is pitching the miracle new invention, the Thermos bottle. He issaying, “It keeps hot food hot, and cold food cold….” Joe thinks about this aminute, amazed by this new invention that is able to make a decision aboutwhich of two different things it is supposed to do depending on what kind offood you put in it. He can’t contain his curiosity, he is jumping up and down,waving his arm in the air, saying “but, but, but, but…” Finally he blurts out hisburning question “But how do it know?”
The example is a thermos. Does a thermos know if its contents are hot or cold? NO! So any human thinking a computer is intelligent is PROJECTING their own intelligence onto the object.
Computers are equivalent to a sewage pipe, a water fountain, or parrot.
Where does intelligence come from?? Hmmmm. Where does everything come from.
I wont beat around the bush.
It’s GOD
Computers take inputs. The inputs are whatever we give them.
What are inputs. Whatever we decide. That includes the surrounding environment or whatever information we decide inputs are.
But what makes us fundamentally different from computers?
Divine intervention. The Holy Spirit. Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Otherworldly inputs.
