The way I make sense of it is by keeping in mind how tiny our human working memory is. We struggle to keep more than a handful of things in mind at a time. As a result, we have to do all kinds of chunking and abstraction tricks to understand complicated things, so we’re essentially forced to make things more elegant to understand them. Machines are far less limited in this way. They can hold far more detail and context in working memory, which allows them to follow the spaghetti we cannot without expending excessive mental effort. As an analogy, compare how easy it is for a human versus a machine to interpret a QR code.
The way I make sense of it is by keeping in mind how tiny our human working memory is. We struggle to keep more than a handful of things in mind at a time. As a result, we have to do all kinds of chunking and abstraction tricks to understand complicated things, so we’re essentially forced to make things more elegant to understand them. Machines are far less limited in this way. They can hold far more detail and context in working memory, which allows them to follow the spaghetti we cannot without expending excessive mental effort. As an analogy, compare how easy it is for a human versus a machine to interpret a QR code.