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No snarkiness intended, but I just read your post for the 3rd time and although I understand each sentence individually, I'm still not sure what point you're tr

No snarkiness intended, but I just read your post for the 3rd time and although I understand each sentence individually, I'm still not sure what point you're trying to make.

superdug 3y ago
It's an amazing accomplishment that we'll see the benefits of for centuries. The culmination of a free operating system on free hardware that is.
- ur-whale 3y ago
  Thanks for the summary, the original text makes more sense with that as context.
TheSpiceIsLife 3y ago
Surely that was generated by an LLM? Artificial indeed.
- superdug 3y ago
  No, but I’ll take any moniker of intelligence at this point in my life, so thank you! If you’d like I can prove my Turing completeness if you’d like.
xyproto 3y ago
Usually when people feel like this, it is because the text has been generated by a LLM.
- alexeldeib 3y ago
  What makes you think it’s an LLM? It made fine sense to me, it’s just an odd style
  - superdug 3y ago
    Simply someone getting a break to philosophize about a crowning achievement in my eyes as the entire idea of free and open had yet to even be fully defined let alone on the precipice of realization four decades ago when I signed on to this free information roller coaster that changed the world.
  - lproven 3y ago
    > It made fine sense to me, "Fine sense"? Even that isn't a standard phrase. I doubt you, TBH. Each paragraph barely coheres. Examples: > an entirely ideological win What does that mean? > there is a fully documented dearth of information ... is nonsensical. > a mere quandary of any part of the system More nonsense. > in the completely free entirety of information available until time itself forgets it ... wut? > adopt there new role Benefit of the doubt: typo Doesn't make sense even fixed, though. > segregated fully autonomous systems loosely networked together ... wut? > the same status that all 99th percentile that all previous technology What? > The nerds won, we made computers into a skilled labor. Always was. This is word salad. If you scan very hastily and you're not good at skimming -- and writing online for 10s to 100s of thousands of readers a day has taught me that many people can't skim to save their lives but they don't know that they can't -- it may look superficially like coherent English text, but it isn't.
    - alexeldeib 3y ago
      tbh, on re-read I agree it's awkward, but to take some of the bait: >> an entirely ideological win > What does that mean? ideological win makes sense. what's an entirely ideological win? one without non-ideological impact. >> there is a fully documented dearth of information > ... is nonsensical. disagree. it is entirely sensical for a dearth of information about a well-defined topic to be documented. see: every github issue for project documentation ever.
      - lproven 3y ago
        Huh. Well, OK then. @superdug keeps posting and responding and seems to be acting like a human, so maybe it's just me. There is a chap in the Hitchhiker's Guide fan club who I've known online for >20Y who is a native English speaker, but his comments and posts online read almost like bot-generated text. Most of them, I have to ask him to explain, often 3 or 4 times, until he can produce something coherent to other humans. His grammar and spelling are perfectly fine but his mind works weirdly and he writes about references to passing thoughts that occurred to him and is not able to recognise that others do not share those random associations. Some of my friends have got so irritated with it, they've just blocked him. Perhaps this is a case a little like that? It makes almost no sense to me, but apparently, it does to you, so maybe the failing is on my end.

No snarkiness intended, but I just read your post for the 3rd time and although I understand each sentence individually, I'm still not sure what point you're trying to make.

superdug 3y ago

It's an amazing accomplishment that we'll see the benefits of for centuries. The culmination of a free operating system on free hardware that is.

ur-whale 3y ago
Thanks for the summary, the original text makes more sense with that as context.

TheSpiceIsLife 3y ago

Surely that was generated by an LLM? Artificial indeed.

superdug 3y ago
No, but I’ll take any moniker of intelligence at this point in my life, so thank you! If you’d like I can prove my Turing completeness if you’d like.

xyproto 3y ago

Usually when people feel like this, it is because the text has been generated by a LLM.

alexeldeib 3y ago
What makes you think it’s an LLM? It made fine sense to me, it’s just an odd style
- superdug 3y ago
  Simply someone getting a break to philosophize about a crowning achievement in my eyes as the entire idea of free and open had yet to even be fully defined let alone on the precipice of realization four decades ago when I signed on to this free information roller coaster that changed the world.
- lproven 3y ago
  > It made fine sense to me, "Fine sense"? Even that isn't a standard phrase. I doubt you, TBH. Each paragraph barely coheres. Examples: > an entirely ideological win What does that mean? > there is a fully documented dearth of information ... is nonsensical. > a mere quandary of any part of the system More nonsense. > in the completely free entirety of information available until time itself forgets it ... wut? > adopt there new role Benefit of the doubt: typo Doesn't make sense even fixed, though. > segregated fully autonomous systems loosely networked together ... wut? > the same status that all 99th percentile that all previous technology What? > The nerds won, we made computers into a skilled labor. Always was. This is word salad. If you scan very hastily and you're not good at skimming -- and writing online for 10s to 100s of thousands of readers a day has taught me that many people can't skim to save their lives but they don't know that they can't -- it may look superficially like coherent English text, but it isn't.
  - alexeldeib 3y ago
    tbh, on re-read I agree it's awkward, but to take some of the bait: >> an entirely ideological win > What does that mean? ideological win makes sense. what's an entirely ideological win? one without non-ideological impact. >> there is a fully documented dearth of information > ... is nonsensical. disagree. it is entirely sensical for a dearth of information about a well-defined topic to be documented. see: every github issue for project documentation ever.
    - lproven 3y ago
      Huh. Well, OK then. @superdug keeps posting and responding and seems to be acting like a human, so maybe it's just me. There is a chap in the Hitchhiker's Guide fan club who I've known online for >20Y who is a native English speaker, but his comments and posts online read almost like bot-generated text. Most of them, I have to ask him to explain, often 3 or 4 times, until he can produce something coherent to other humans. His grammar and spelling are perfectly fine but his mind works weirdly and he writes about references to passing thoughts that occurred to him and is not able to recognise that others do not share those random associations. Some of my friends have got so irritated with it, they've just blocked him. Perhaps this is a case a little like that? It makes almost no sense to me, but apparently, it does to you, so maybe the failing is on my end.