[ExI] computer joke

[Anders Sandberg]

William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com> , 4/6/2014 12:13 AM:
"You are 4 years old and you smoke?  Are you crazy?!
Yeah, what 4 year old would risk his health that way?
More seriously, this is actually a nice example of sanity checking inputs. At the very least super-improbable data combinations should raise a flag and a question. More software should do it.

Just checking the sign of numbers catches a surprising number of errors.


Anders Sandberg, Future of Humanity Institute Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University


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