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>>"Programming isn't that hard if you just do it right."

Is this like saying, programming isn't hard if you choose easy enough problems to solve? Or should we ask for a link to see a demo of an AGI implementation?

I guess math is not hard either if you're "doing is right", as long as it's all arithmetic...

>>That's not a tautology.

I would agree tautology is not the best description, probably fallacy would do fine.



> Is this like saying, programming isn't hard if you choose easy enough problems to solve?

No, this is saying that things don't have to be as hard as we make them. You don't need more than a hundred people to run a top-ten website, and that shouldn't be surprising. It is surprising only because we are so good at making things overcomplicated.




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