[fonc] Intuition [was: Physics and Types]

2011-08-01 Thread David Barbour
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Simon Forman forman.si...@gmail.com wrote: Another reason I would argue against something like types based on Physics is that Physics tries to work out the inconceivable ways that the Universe actually behaves by systematically throwing away all of our

Re: [fonc] Intuition [was: Physics and Types]

2011-08-01 Thread Wesley Smith
I think that creating computer systems that support naive or unfounded intuitions (whether about how computers work or about the world outside the computer system) actually does a disservice. I agree, but with a twist: computer systems should help us in founding useful intuitions, with a