What is the utility of computer scientists?

[EquALLity]

I disagree. However, it is my understanding that you are not allowed to discuss hard sciences and soft sciences, so you will just have to accept that I am right and you are wrong.

Is that how you defend your arguments?

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I disagree. However, it is my understanding that you are not allowed to discuss hard sciences and soft sciences, so you will just have to accept that I am right and you are wrong.

Is that how you defend your arguments?

Well Teo isn't allowed to discuss it, to @JReg's credit.

[EquALLity]

I disagree. However, it is my understanding that you are not allowed to discuss hard sciences and soft sciences, so you will just have to accept that I am right and you are wrong.

Is that how you defend your arguments?

Well Teo isn't allowed to discuss it, to @JReg's credit.

Why did you respond to this

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Is that how you defend your arguments?

Well Teo isn't allowed to discuss it, to @JReg's credit.

Why did you respond to this

[teo123]

if it was you who removed my post

I am not a moderator, so I can't do that.

Hayek was wrong on both counts.

How? Do you think Holodomor didn't really happen?

Posadas was actually a huge influence on Keynes. They collaborated very closely together.

Where are you getting that information from?

Why?

Because few people talk about economic consequences of vegetarianism. And of those few who do talk about that, quite a few of them believe that nonsense about how vegetarianism could destroy global economy.

Then how can you be sure that what you're saying is correct?

I didn't say I am sure. OK, maybe I worded it wrongly. You said that many linguists publish papers that very few people understand. I asked you if you think that the same is true for mathematics, because a mathematician probably can't understand a paper from a distant area of mathematics either.

If you watch Star Trek, you will see that they have abolished hunger by using food replicators.

As far as I understand, such a machine would be impossible due to the no-cloning theorem in quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics doesn't argue that copying objects is possible given sufficiently advanced technology, in fact, it argues for exactly the opposite.

This demonstrated how if more emphasis was put on hard sciences than soft sciences, there wouldn't be any starving people.

Well, given that physics today argues such a machine is impossible, it's at least highly unlikely investing in hard sciences could do that.

However, it is my understanding that you are not allowed to discuss hard sciences and soft sciences, so you will just have to accept that I am right and you are wrong.

@brimstoneSalad, would you please explain to JReg why you think soft sciences are more important these days than hard sciences are?

To call Pac-Man a mere game would be an injustice.

Well, it is a game. Back when it was first made, it was very hard to make, primarily because programming languages weren't as advanced as they are today.
Which gets us to why the softer parts of computer science (how to design a good programming language, how to design a good user interface...) are just as important, if not even more important, than the harder parts of computer science (algorithms and data structures). In fact, I think the hard parts of computer science (algorithms and data structures) are becoming less important these days and replaced by the middle-hard part of computer science which studies genetic algorithms and artificial neural networks.

Computer science is incredibly easy.

Again, I am not sure what you mean by that. Like I've said, what makes it somewhat easier than most of the sciences is the fact that you usually get to know if you've got something wrong. You can usually write a program that will do controlled experiments for you, and those experiments don't last for long and usually give very clear results (so much so that you don't even need to do a statistical analysis of the results). However, in order to do that, you, of course, need some substantial background knowledge.
The same is mostly true for the middle-soft parts of computer science, however, it's not really true for the soft parts of computer science. These are very hard to do, especially the programming language design. I mean, what I was doing until now (tokenizers, parsers, basic compilation...) would still belong to the hard parts of computer science, but deciding evidence-based where to apply static typing and where to apply dynamic typing to reduce the number of errors humans would make when programming large programs in your language, that's the softer part of computer science and that's very hard, if even possible, to do properly.

[Not The Real JReg]

Well, it is a game.

Once again, to call it a mere game would be an injustice. Pac-Man has touched the hearts and minds of millions of people from all walks of life. I remember when I was only 7 years old and on Sundays my father would give me some money and I would rush down to the arcade excitedly to play Pac-Man. I would sit there for hours playing Pac-Man until I ran out of coins and I had to go home. At school, I would often find myself absent-mindedly doodling Pac-Man eating the little white dots and evading the four ghosts Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde. It had gotten to a point where all I could think about was Pac-Man. My grades started to slip and when my father found out, he stated that I wouldn't be allowed to go to the arcade again unless my grades picked up. This shook me to my core. Without Pac-Man, I was nothing. From this came my greatest motivation to study, because if I didn't study hard, I wouldn't be able to get good grades, and without good grades, I wouldn't be able to play Pac-Man. My hard work had paid off, and I started to succeed in my studies. As my reward, my father took me out for pizza (this was before I went vegan). I remember eating two slices of pizza and then just staring at the pizza for about three minutes because without the two slices there, it looked exactly like Pac-Man. Eventually, I snapped out of my trance and ate the rest of the pizza. I remember the day after when I went back to the arcade after three months of being forbidden to go there, I felt the most intense feeling of euphoria that I have ever felt in my life. Being able to finally play Pac-Man again was pure bliss. I still get tingles to this day whenever I hear the Pac-Man music. I haven't played the game in a while, but as somebody whose childhood was dominated by Pac-Man, I feel very insulted to see somebody flippantly referring to it as just a game. It's like referring to Beethoven's ninth symphony as a bunch of noises. Though it might be technically true, it's a huge diminution of the importance and significance of it. Call Pac-Man what it is: A masterpiece.

[teo123]

Call Pac-Man what it is: A masterpiece.

Back then, it was a masterpiece that took many months to program. These days, thanks to computer science, you can make it in a day after a few weeks of studying JavaScript (assuming you are already familiar with basic programming). I know that, because I did it a few years ago.

[teo123]

BTW, @JReg, here in Osijek there is a restaurant called K Topu that offers some special vegan food, including vegan pizza. How it is to be a vegan with such a demanding job in a poor country such as Serbia?

[Not The Real JReg]

Back then, it was a masterpiece that took many months to program. These days, thanks to computer science, you can make it in a day after a few weeks of studying JavaScript (assuming you are already familiar with basic programming). I know that, because I did it a few years ago.

So you admit that computer science is easy.

[EquALLity]

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