Dijkstra's 'submarine swimming' quip is outdated: computers have invaded the semantic space of 'think'
dbasch · x · 2026-09-25
Responding to Antonio García Martínez quoting Dijkstra's line that whether computers can think is as boring as whether submarines can swim, dbasch argues it was true then but not now: the semantic space of "think" has been invaded by computers in recent years, making the question genuinely interesting again.
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