Argh. I was going to post a subcomment saying "that's my first comment in a long while without an embarrassing spelling error", but it's not much better... I always misremember lj-tags. Let's try again:
Well, I almost didn't know it for a second there, too. I look at "thinkpalmtrees" and no bells rung; but my memory is pretty ineffectual, anyway (admittedly, nearly everyone thinks that of their own memory).
well, if you hadn't remembered, we would still have different kinds of ignorance:
for some reason my hash table said: "Ana, Brazilian-American biologist from Boston" -> thinkpalmtrees
It failed the update process, even after it had succeeded before. This would never happen in a digital system, which is the kind of reason why I want to put my whole brain on a computer.
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Date: 2005-05-19 12:03 pm (UTC)for some reason my hash table said:
"Ana, Brazilian-American biologist from Boston" -> thinkpalmtrees
It failed the update process, even after it had succeeded before.
This would never happen in a digital system, which is the kind of reason why I want to put my whole brain on a computer.