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vezzy-fnord
on Oct 17, 2015
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The Lonely Death of George Bell
Algorithms are much more primitive than people by definition. You seem to have intended to convey the opposite, a preference for relying on primitives over complicated persons.
ams6110
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More primitive, in the sense of less complex, yes. But also more reliable. Algorithms do what they do, and never anything else.
gammafactor
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I'm chinese and was using primitive in an evolutionary sense.
Wrong choice of word, I agree with you.
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