[HN Gopher] Joe Armstrong interviews Alan Kay (2016) [video]
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       Joe Armstrong interviews Alan Kay (2016) [video]
        
       Author : kerim-ca
       Score  : 35 points
       Date   : 2025-11-29 20:37 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.youtube.com)
        
       | kerim-ca wrote:
       | > _McCarthy looked at those and he said every house is going to
       | have one of these. And he didn 't worry about personal computing
       | or anything because what he thought--what the thing that occurred
       | to him--this is like getting your power from the outside, this is
       | like getting your water from the outside, it's going to be a
       | utility. It'll be a universal utility, be like the telephone.
       | Everybody will have one of these things and there will be
       | national Computing centers that everybody can tap into. And he
       | started thinking about it and he realized: oh, the problem is
       | nobody can deal with computers on the computer's terms. We need a
       | common sense way of dealing with computation. And so he proposed
       | that there be an agent called the advice taker that you could
       | have back and forth with, and not just ask it questions but tell
       | it things and have it reason. And there's a whole bunch of
       | interesting stuff in there._
       | 
       | This part reminded me of CLI Agents
        
       | Rochus wrote:
       | Has beed discussed here:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13033299
        
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