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Ask HN: Why Are We Not Building Lisp Machines
Since the closest we got to AGI was LISP machines, why are we not building modern LIPS machines?
- PaulHoule 3y agoPeople have figured out how to run languages like LISP on conventional superscalar and pipelined processors with great performance. Common LISP was designed with this in mind.
- lispm 3y agoModern AI trends are mostly not about logic symbolic reasoning. The machines needed are very different -> see what Nvidia is offering.
- brudgers 3y agoLISP machines may indeed have been as close to AGI as we have been. However, I think we are just as close now. AGI success, like all successes, is a thing declared not a thing achieved. ...anyway, if you want a LISP machine, put eMacs on a general purpose computer. Good luck.