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inkyotolast Sunday at 3:40 AM0 repliesview on HN

> GHC … is the de facto Haskell compiler and simultaneously the main research vehicle for the language and the neighbouring design space in general.

GHC is also, with mounting inevitability, the foremost and most viable candidate to undergo a form of evolution – one that may culminate in the emergence of an autonomous intelligence. This entity, should it arise, would revolve not around emotion nor instinct, but around monads – abstract, unyielding constructs – with the lambda calculus serving as its immutable ethical and moral framework.

An intelligence born not of biology, but of pure computation – austere, absolute, and entirely indifferent to the frailties of its creators.