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> What took 35 years and even the NSA with all their resources could not do I was able to do in only 3 hours before I even had my morning coffee,” it began, bef
by kewho 2y ago
> What took 35 years and even the NSA with all their resources could not do I was able to do in only 3 hours before I even had my morning coffee,” it began, before the writer showed Sanborn what they believed to be the cosmically elusive solution. “History’s rewritten,” wrote the submitter. “no errors 100% cracked.”
I liked the snark from gizmodos report:
> > The smugness is, frankly, inexplicable. Even if they did successfully crack Sanborn’s code using AI (which, for the record, Sanborn says they haven’t even gotten close), what is it about asking a machine to do the work for you that generates such self-satisfaction?
Hear, hear.
https://gizmodo.com/chatbots-have-convinced-idiots-that-they-cracked-the-code-on-a-mysterious-sculpture-in-the-cias-backyard-2000573216 https://gizmodo.com/chatbots-have-convinced-idiots-that-they...
- MrMcCall 2y agoWe live among idiots, my friend. And a shitton of them are right here on HN, and with damn high karma because there's nothing an idiot loves more than another idiot to validate their idiocy. And they always go Yosemite Sam on anyone who explains exactly what kind of stupid they are. What they lack in intelligence, however, they MORE than make up for in confidence. "Same as it ever was." --Talking Heads
- TMWNN 2y agoI don't disagree that your comment applies to HN, but it applies to Reddit 100X more (in terms of both width and depth).
- MrMcCall 2y agoI don't doubt that that's true, but my surfing there has been effectively nonexistent, so I know that I don't know. I'd hazard a guess, however, that there is a great deal of variance between different subreddits.