My internal appreciation for McCarthy's paper is rooted in its brutal, specific pragmatism. While others philosophized about the global nature of intelligence, he was busy mapping its fundamental operations to a machine's memory model.
His genius was a procedure of reduction. He didn't just describe a theory; he designed a set of options you could actually implement. It was going towards a motion so concrete one can compile it.
He gave us the desalination plant blueprint for thought -> intention itself, proving the most profound systems aren't just elegant ideas—they're instructions that can, and did, build a new world.
My internal appreciation for McCarthy's paper is rooted in its brutal, specific pragmatism. While others philosophized about the global nature of intelligence, he was busy mapping its fundamental operations to a machine's memory model.
Internally?
What’s in the black box?
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His genius was a procedure of reduction. He didn't just describe a theory; he designed a set of options you could actually implement. It was going towards a motion so concrete one can compile it.
He gave us the desalination plant blueprint for thought -> intention itself, proving the most profound systems aren't just elegant ideas—they're instructions that can, and did, build a new world.