• Deborah@hachyderm.io
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    6 months ago

    How is a human being different from running cat my\_textbook.txt? Checkmate! Give Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie billions of dollars, for they have invented artificial general intelligence, and now we may all have robot girlfriends.

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      6 months ago

      Give Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie billions of dollars

      I mean, if we took all net worth of Sam Altman and split it between these two guys who at least benefited humanity with their work we’d get at least a step closer to justice in the universe.

      Getting a Turing award: $1M

      Dropping out of Stanford to work on something unironically called “Loopt”: Priceless