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Re:ChatGPT Plugins by dragonwriter on Thursday March 23, 2023 @11:36PM (#35284788)
> The only truly goal-free thinking system is a random number generator

An RNG may be goal-free, but its not a thinking system.

Re:ChatGPT Plugins by TeMPOraL on Friday March 24, 2023 @10:59AM (#35289905)
It is a thinking system in the same sense as never freeing memory is a form of garbage collection - known as a "null garbage collector", and of immense usefulness for the relevant fields of study. RNG is the identity function of thinking systems - it defines a degenerate thinking system that does not think.