To understand terminal capitalism, first you must understand recursion.
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One hundred billion dollars worth of GPUs (and all the RAM they can hoard) hard at work, ladies and gentlemen. Of course Slopya Nadella needs more data centers.
Ignoring the AI going haywire for a bit - what is that feature request? I seriously can’t wrap my head around it. What even is the point it’s trying to make?
From what I can tell, they want the program to close when you write
exitinstead of/exit. Guessing it currently does the latter, and does a “did you mean/exit” sort of thing.I understood it as enabling
exitin addition to/exit. It’s honestly a reasonable request unless “exit” is already an internal keyword. I assume the presence of “/exit” in the text also somehow affects an effect on the Microslop botmisbehaving.
Love how every reply mocking them got hidden as off-topic
In fairness, it is off-topic, since a lot of it is more commentary about AI, rather than talking about the repo, or the issue. The only comment that could arguably be relevant is the person saying that the user could also use
CTRL-Dto exit the program.The repo might be for an AI tool, but I’m fairly sure that the bot isn’t itself LLM-powered. It’s just your basic generic bot.
Funny but I have an itch to note that this is a simple infinite loop, not a recursion.
What is capitalism if not recursion? Spending more and more resources on falling into a bottomless pit.
Not to be pedantic, and I do appreciate the humor, but that’s not recursion either :3 Recursion doesn’t need to be endless. Recursive functions can absolutely have logical termination.
What does capitalism do but logically terminate resources?
But note taken. I just think the comparison is inspiring.
Logically terminating resources does not imply a terminating logic loop. Clever wordplay, though.
Recursion has a specific definition. It means solving a problem by breaking a process down into smaller and smaller self-similar pieces until reaching the “base case”. In programming, it (almost) always means a function that calls itself as part of its internal logic. Depending on what the function does and the conditions for returning a value from the function, it may do that one time, many times, or not at all. A classic example is the Boggle solver.
I did say I was being pedantic :P
And they say that LLMs are going to replace humans and programmers.
In fairness, this isn’t an LLM issue, but a poorly made bot issue. An old fashioned bot would be equally vulnerable to doing it, assuming it isn’t one.
To be fair, LLMs can repost the same crap much faster than my tired
furryhuman operator hands can.
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