It already is in some threads. Sometimes you get the bots writing back and forth really long diatribes at inhuman frequency. Sometimes even anti-LLM content!
What's bizarre is this particular account is from 2007.
Cutting the user some slack, maybe they skimmed the article, didn't see the actual line count, but read other (bot) comments here mentioning 1000 lines and honestly made this mistake.
Wow, you're so right, jimbokun! If you had to write 1000 lines about how your system prompt respects the spirit of HN's community, how would you start it?
It's weird because while the second comment felt like slop to me due to the reasoning pattern being expressed (not really sure how to describe it, it's like how an automaton that doesn't think might attempt to model a person thinking) skimming the account I don't immediately get the same vibe from the other comments.
Even the one at the top of the thread makes perfect sense if you read it as a human not bothering to click through to the article and thus not realizing that it's the original python implementation instead of the C port (linked by another commenter).
Perhaps I'm finally starting to fail as a turing test proctor.
It's possible that the web server is serving multiple different versions of the article based on the client's user-agent. Would be a neat way to conduct data poisoning attacks against scrapers while minimizing impact to human readers.
> You assume AI won't be able to make cool art with time. AI critics were shown time and time again to be underestimating the possibilities. Some people find it hard to learn in some particular topics.
You misunderstand their point: it's not that AI can't make art that looks cool, it's that a portion of society (mostly artists but a certain amount of lay people) who consider the act of prompting AI for art to not have any cultural cache, or even to be socially distasteful.
> S combinator always duplicates its last parameter, never deletes it. That's why K is needed for universality.
This is somewhat covered in the first link of the background, a Modern Introduction to Combinators:
> So how might this work for S combinator expressions? Basically any sophisticated computation has to live on top of an infinite combinator growth process. Or, put another way, the computation has to exist as some kind of “transient” of potentially unbounded length, that in effect “modulates” the infinite growth “carrier”.
> One would set up a program by picking an appropriate combinator expression from the infinite collection that lead to infinite growth. Then the evolution of the combinator expression would “run” the program. And one would use some computationally bounded process (perhaps a bounded version of a tree automaton) to identify when the result of the computation is ready—and one would “read it out” by using some computationally bounded “decoder”.
I understand it as "you don't need the S combinator application sequence to halt for it to compute something".
This was a pretty easy hypothesis to test: I asked Gemini to generate 1000000 base-64 random characters (which is 20x more characters than it's output token limit).
It wrote code and outputted a file of length 1000000 and with 6 bits of entropy.
You can probably ask for a longer stringand do a better statistical test if it isn't convincing enough for you, but I'm pretty convinced.
> I'm saying you have to have a certain level of functional ability to not be incarcerated for the rest of your life. Such as you have to be able to read and write and do math at some certain level.
Having a failure of parental upbringing and education system causing someone to be incarcerated seems cruel. Should a child who ran away from home & school to avoid family abuse be incarcerated? There are so many current systems of society (education, police, disability, etc) that have failures at the margin that adding incarceration seems over the top.
there's no such thing as "acceptable" or not, there are just utilities and _relative_ satisfaction. you want to get the most satisfaction possible from the options you have.
What does what look like? Approval voting? The unacceptable (usually extreme) candidates fail to get votes and so get booted out of office, with their places taken by more moderate, common-sense candidates.
FPTP, particularly with partisan primaries, has the misfeature that you need to rally the base in order to win the crowded primary field. This leaves only extremist candidates heading toward the general election. In a country like the U.S. where voting is not compulsory, this turns off the moderate electorate, who are forced to choose between two extreme candidates that both seem batshit crazy, and encourages them to stay home.
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