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#219 – Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Dark Side of Automating

When there is competing interests involved, neither side understands why the decision is being made. We rely now that it's bad, but consider what happens since the private year 10. Maybe humans should focus on a small part of programming that requires 'genius' The more you automate, the more you let humans do what humans do best. That's the positive, but of course it does come with the darkness, of automation.

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