This is from an email exchange with Teri Lussier:
Here is the computer for the rest of us:
Imagine that civilization has collapsed. It’s happened before.
Now imagine a computer something like the iPad (but durable enough to have survived and solar-powered or whatever).
The ideal user-interface could be put to use by whomever finds that computer, with zero assumptions or expectations about what that person does or does not know about conceptual volitionality.
It will be babies (crawlers, not toddlers) who will tell us — by their interaction with it — if the iPad is there yet.
(FWIW, this is one of the things I’ve been waiting for all my life, a computer that can train its end-user literally from scratch — from nothing — from the complete collapse of all abstraction-based learning. If civilization ever does collapse again, a computer like this will deliver a much faster renaissance to the survivors.)
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