• _____@lemm.ee
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    15 days ago

    There’s a popular figure in a fringe topic who’s contributed to computer science enough to have earned respect (and rightfully so) who writes these fringe articles with so much fanfare and pretentiousness that the entire meaning is impossible to extract.

    It just ends up sounding like a pretentious word salad.

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        14 days ago

        warning: it is very fringe.

        Jacques Vallee. He had a Ted talk (or Ted ex or whatever) and it was equally unimpressive.

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          14 days ago

          Note that he’s French. The French have a particularly bad case of this (e.g. continental philosophy).