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silasdavistoday at 7:41 PM2 repliesview on HN

https://gist.github.com/simonw/b6149a49d327164d67d62c3d12992...

> Aside from reading identically forwards and backwards down to the letter

No it doesn't.


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tomjakubowskitoday at 9:32 PM

Also puzzling: in the "reasoning" section preceding, that is described as an example of "a one-line self-replicating program."

When I typed "Are we not pure noon, ergo, we play life; yet, we hate bad fear" into Google, I got more weird results from Gemini: it claimed, incorrectly, that it is an anagram of the "well-known philosophical statement" (?), "We are not pure nature, we are history".

https://share.google/aimode/wJosKnHig6oVYaG18

(?): the reference seems to be to Jose Ortega y Gasset's line, "El hombre no tiene naturaleza, lo que tiene es historia" -- "Man[kind] has no nature, what it has is history."

aidostoday at 7:48 PM

That’s… bonkers. I’m not even sure what it’s trying to say