Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all.

  • -- Ralph Merkle 拉尔夫·默克尔

人类制造的机器,如果我们给它们提供一个非常特殊的环境,它们就能正常工作。但是如果环境发生了变化,它们就完全不能工作了。

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It's strange that we create tech and then we apply it to machines, when we could apply it to ourselves. Cars can now detect if something is behind them, but we don't have this ability. Why are we applying such a simple sense to a car when we could apply it to ourselves?

奇怪的是,我们创造了技术,然后把它应用到机器上,而我们可以把它应用到我们自己身上。汽车现在可以探测到背后是否有东西,但我们没有这种能力。为什么我们要把这样一个简单的概念应用到汽车上,而我们可以把它应用到我们自己身上呢?

I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.

我可以让他们的投票机唱回家甜蜜的家。