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Makes sense, thank you.

Is that the SoViEt uNiOn???

Would you say the purpose of you sleeping at night is "making noise"? Because it's also something that you do whiel sleeping. I would say "no". But if the purpose of a system is what it does, then making noise would also a purpose, right?

Yeah but the point of a cooling system isn't e.g. "making noise" even though that' also something that it does.

Would you say it's not a purpose anymore if the creator clarifies they didn't have any intentions about it? Or would it still be a purpose?

the purpose of a computer that can manage heat is to compute,

Exactly. Its purpose isn't "generating heat", although it sure does that. Likewise, the purpose of cars isn't "crashing", although some do crash. That doesn't make it htier purpose though.

My quantum computer doesn't, unfortunately. That liquid nitrogen judst keeps ruining everything :(

I burnt a toast in the toaster. But ruining my bread is not the purpose of the toaster.

Similarly, if a fire alarm goes off on a false positive, that doesn't mean the purpose of the fire alarm was to waste the firefighters time. Not every effect of a system is also its purpose.

Assuming that were the case, what is the point you are trying to make? "Getting hot" is not the purpose of a computer. Rather, its a side effect (that people are trying to avoid).

First, computers technically include abascuses and calculators, and they don't require electricity to power and thus heat up... (So specify it's an electronic one)

Its obvious I was talking about an electric one. However, abacuses technically produce heat while being used (from friction) and my electric calculator does too. So maybe you should have specified if you meant an electric calculator... ;)

If it follows the latter reasoning, what it does WILL become its purpose

But the claim was that what it does CURRENTLY IS its purpose. You are just saying that eventually, people will learn to take advantage of the side effects (which may or may not actually happen IMO).

It is not. The purpose of it is neither to be cold nor to be hot.

It is not. The purpose of it is neither to be cold nor to be hot.