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@@ -42,12 +42,12 @@ human machine can have intentions, it is therefore easy for them to ascribe
consciousness and intention to other complex patterned systems such as
computers. If consciousness is mechanical, it is neither more or less absurd
to say that The program wants to go into an infinite loop than it is to
say that I want to go eat some chocolate and even defensible to say that
say that I want to go eat some chocolate and even defensible to say that
The stone, once dropped, wants to move towards the center of the earth .
This viewpoint has respectable company in academic philosophy. Daniel
Dennett organizes explanations of behavior using three stances: the
Dennett organizes explanations of behavior using three stances: the
physical stance (thing-to-be-explained as a physical object), the design
stance (thing-to-be-explained as an artifact), and the intentional stance
stance (thing-to-be-explained as an artifact), and the intentional stance
(thing-to-be-explained as an agent with desires and intentions). Which
stances are appropriate is a matter not of abstract truth but of utility.
Hackers typically view simple programs from the design stance, but more
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ got confused is really saying that he (or she) was confused about exactly
what he wanted the computer to do, the code naturally incorporated this
confusion, and the code expressed the programmer's confusion when executed
by crashing or otherwise misbehaving. Note that by displacing from I got
confused to It got confused , the programmer is not avoiding
confused to It got confused, the programmer is not avoiding
responsibility, but rather getting some analytical distance in order to be
able to consider the bug dispassionately. It has also been suggested that
anthropomorphizing complex systems is actually an expression of humility, a
@@ -68,4 +68,3 @@ way of acknowleging that simple rules we do understand (or that we invented)
can lead to emergent behavioral complexities that we don't completely
understand. All three explanations accurately model hacker psychology, and
should be considered complementary rather than competing.