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  • Churbleyimyam@lemm.eetoFediverse@lemmy.worldDon't reply "just Google it"
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    1 month ago

    The most useful thing about interacting with another human mind is that it can see when the question needs to be updated in order to get a correct answer.

    A crude example would be:

    Q1: how many screws should I use to join these pieces of wood?

    A1: It’s more relevant to use screws which are long enough.

    Q2: Which screws should I use?

    A2: This size.







  • It’s probably because although there is some overlap they also have important distinctions. Content doesn’t have agency in the same way that software does. Perhaps you could think of it as content saying things to you and software as doing things with you. Repeating what someone is saying to you is considered (rightly or wrongly) to have lower stakes than knowing what someone is doing to you. It’s the same idea behind the “sticks and stones” saying.