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https://gist.github.com/simonw/b6149a49d327164d67d62c3d12992e48#3-a-linguistic-illusion-the-semordnilap https://gist.github.com/simonw/b6149a49d327164d67d62c3d1
by silasdavis 1mo ago
https://gist.github.com/simonw/b6149a49d327164d67d62c3d12992e48#3-a-linguistic-illusion-the-semordnilap https://gist.github.com/simonw/b6149a49d327164d67d62c3d12992...
> Aside from reading identically forwards and backwards down to the letter
No it doesn't.
- aidos 1mo agoThat’s… bonkers. I’m not even sure what it’s trying to say
- tomjakubowski 1mo agoAlso puzzling: in the "reasoning" section preceding, that is described as an example of "a one-line self-replicating program." When I typed "Are we not pure noon, ergo, we play life; yet, we hate bad fear" into Google, I got more weird results from Gemini: it claimed, incorrectly, that it is an anagram of the "well-known philosophical statement" (?), "We are not pure nature, we are history". https://share.google/aimode/wJosKnHig6oVYaG18 https://share.google/aimode/wJosKnHig6oVYaG18 (?): the reference seems to be to Jose Ortega y Gasset's line, "El hombre no tiene naturaleza, lo que tiene es historia" -- "Man[kind] has no nature, what it has is history."