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Re:The NAND gate. One gate to rule them all by st_goliath on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @07:52AM (#28758134)
> the most I've been able to gather from this article is that the author doesn't know either and is unable to interpret any of the relevant literature.

I got the impression that the author is very familiar with the topic and wrote this for shits'n giggles. The "article" is a string of entertaining nonsense that doesn't go anywhere and seems to purely mock some of the typical philosophical musings filled pseudo-tutorial articles that crop up on HN from time to time. Especially comparing it some other stuff on that site[1].

The witty writing style, completely silly analogies and puns somehow remind me of a certain Unix-grey-beard that I had as a high school teacher (the "FerdiNAND" line would be spot on for the guy).

And yes, I have read the response from the author below yours[2], and I believe there's some brilliant trolling going on here at the moment. ("oh yes, you're right! I actually am utterly clueless.")

[1] https://sebastiancarlos.medium.com/from-ai-to-zi-an-encyclop...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28757743

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Re:The NAND gate. One gate to rule them all by deepCelibate on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @08:59AM (#28758767)
Author here. You are correct about everything. I appreciate that you took the time to write this.

The only exception is that, honestly, I'm not very familiar with the topic. I did try to mock the typical pseudo-tutorial articles, but I don't claim that I can do any better.

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