FourWaveforms

The epitomy of irony is a JavaScript developer insisting that some other language is "a fractal of bad design" without immediately acknowledging that JS is weird as hell.

How could you have a conversation about anything without the ability to predict the word most likely to be best?

Yes, and that is precisely what you have done in your response.

You saw something you disagreed with, as did I. You felt an impulse to argue about it, as did I. You predicted the right series of words to convey the are argument, and then typed them, as did I.

There is no deep thought to what either of us has done here. We have in fact both performed as little rigorous thought as necessary, instead relying on experience from seeing other people do the same thing, because that is vastly more efficient than doing a full philosophical disassembly of every last thing we converse about.

That disassembly is expensive. Not only does it take time, but it puts us at risk of having to reevaluate notions that we're comfortable with, and would rather not revisit. I look at what you've written, and I see no sign of a mind that is in a state suitable for that. Your words are defensive ("delusion") rather than curious, so how can you have a discussion that is intellectual, rather than merely pretending to be?

When you typed this response, you were acting as a probabilistic, predictive chat model. You predicted the most likely effective sequence of words to convey ideas. You did this using very different circuitry, but the underlying strategy was the same.

Predicting sequences of things is foundational to intelligence. In fact, it is the whole point.

I actually wouldn't enjoy talking to most people at work, because that would involve going there instead of doing it from the computer where I already am

This cat should be called Pierre

"why does the hall always smell like a sewer?"

I'm not young

It means you drank too much water

I'm a childless man and FUCK that, the office isn't my social scene. I don't care to drive in there just to talk to the same people in person. ZERO point in doing that. We have meetings electronically and that's more than enough.