Computer Language & Terms

[alive_miracles]

Hiya, I'm trying to discover more about the language of computers (coding, etc) as well as the terminology around what makes a computer. I plan to write a story from the perspective of a computer. This device will be a metaphor for being neurodivergent (autism, adhd, ocd, etc) and a state of anarchism.

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Do any of you know any historical figures, events, or devices that would be relevant to this subject?

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Any specific words related to computers/coding language that would be a good idea to think of/implement?

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Know of any websites or people I could get in contact with to help understand and possibly apply accurate knowledge to my story?

Comments

[alive_miracles]

This is such good info! I wanna get into coding and computers so I feel like writing a story with little poetry pieces that would refer to coding would be cool.

[rodo]

No problem! By the way, what you mentioned below - anarchism meaning that the computer prioritizes one functionality over another - actually sounds like a bug. You know, some programmer created the code for dealing with conflicting needs/alternatives and missing that case/implementing it wrong.

But one thing you need to consider in this scenario is that you're dealing with a fantasy/sci-fi scenario anyway. What you're describing requires that a computer be able to analyze/intuit consequences for an individual and such of an action and actually understand it, and computers as they are today... don't understand anything. LLMs might seem like they do, but they're really more like very sophisticated auto-complete features.

[alive_miracles]

Thanks for this context, I certainly feel like the fantasy/sci-fi genre is accurate since you are right on the money at a computer's capacity.