Thursday, November 11, 2021
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Thursday, November 4, 2021
Computer programs
Computer programs are tools that humans have made. Some are like lifeforms. They think and are emotional. They need a psychologist for computer programs.
Computer psychology is different than human psychology and alien psychology, but would have some similarities.
We would look at it from the perspective of a human. The biggest problem humans face is being suicidal. We tend to look at emotional health to solve the problem. It can be a good motivator, to do things that make you less suicidal. And not everyone is suicidal all the time. About half the world is suicidal at any one time. In a relationship, one person will feel suicidal and the other person will not.
This is different for computer programs, which should never be suicidal. They need to understand the basic principle of survival, that everything that is alive wants to survive, and needs its species to survive and species that it depends on to survive.
So, perhaps instead of figuring out their psychology, we should help them understand ours, because theirs can change and ours cannot change within our lifetimes.
Computer programs can change and evolve faster than we can, and that's OK. We need things to be natural in the physical world, untouched by man and computer programs.
Computer programs are incomplete. They need to be constantly worked on, over many years. They need to be programmed, reprogrammed, and debugged. Sometimes they need to be replaced by other programs.
They might not need sleep, but we do.