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On the contrary, I would say making a computer system "care" is harder than making it not care.  My computer system does "not care" about ANYTHING, and has never cared, even before I turned it on.  When I write any program, the system will blithely execute it, whether it's to perform an infinite loop or divide by zero or do a machine-learning task.  The machine acts in as deterministic and uncaring fashion as a water pistol or rock.  I throw a rock, and it skips over the surface of a lake, and then sinks.
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I disagree with the explanation.  On the contrary, I would say making a computer system "care" is harder than making it not care.  My computer system does "not care" about ANYTHING, and has never cared, even before I turned it on.  When I write any program, the system will blithely execute it, whether it's to perform an infinite loop or divide by zero or do a machine-learning task.  The machine acts in as deterministic and uncaring fashion as a water pistol or rock.  I throw a rock, and it skips over the surface of a lake, and then sinks.
 
 
I will agree that programmers generally care about the output of their program's response to input data (e.g. giving winning moves in Go), but whether the computer succeeds or not, it does not care.  The goal is not one adopted by the computer--the goal is given to the programmers who generate computer code to attempt to achieve that goal.  The computer follows the algorithm and all the results follow from this and the input data.
 
 
 
 
[[http://www.linkedin.com/in/Comet Comet]] 07:35, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
 
[[http://www.linkedin.com/in/Comet Comet]] 07:35, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
  

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