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Posted by tosh 17 hours ago

I made a programming language with M&Ms(mufeedvh.com)
80 points | 35 commentspage 2
Surac 3 hours ago|
oh man the program just melted in my mouth
nathaah3 6 hours ago||
this is so cool!
mufeedvh 5 hours ago|
thank you! :)
MostlyStable 4 hours ago||
Not really the same, but made me think of this classic xkcd: https://xkcd.com/505/
owyn 16 hours ago||
This is AI slop but mildly amusing. Brainfuck did it first.
ramon156 12 hours ago|
Which part made you conclude there's AI involved?
owyn 10 hours ago||
the bold section headers and bullet points. but who cares. i don't.
306bobby 8 hours ago|||
I literally write like the article on similar write ups, where do you think the AI's learned to write this way from.

I really don't get the AI vibes from the actual writing of it

willwade 5 hours ago||
It gave me strong vibes too. It’s the writing style. I’ve seen OpenAI write just like this. Doesn’t mean it’s bad. There’s a few other markers. Note “silly” in quotes and over use if that word. Once would be enough. But also this is very very typical. The bolting and short quite direct and a bit repetitive statements “it absolutely does not solve “dumped a bag of candy on a messy kitchen table and took a dramatic iPhone shot.”

Real example programs are where the joke becomes a language I didn’t want this to stop at “hello world with candy colors.”” The over use of quoting. The bold. It’s not like a human wouldn’t write this. But it’s unusual for a human to do this imho. All the same - it feels novel. And at the end of the day it’s a neat idea. It’s just we enter this new brave world where things written like this give you the ick. “Where do the ai learn this from?” Well I wouldn’t mind betting the author asked it to be written in a hn style post.

Timwi 3 hours ago||
Please re-read your comment and tell me you're not grasping at straws just to accuse someone of using AI to write.
Timwi 3 hours ago|||
Are you serious? We can't make headers bold or use bullet points anymore without people like you instantly calling it AI slop?
avatardeejay 11 hours ago|
Am I allowed to use the term psychopath in the most loving, even inspired, way?
dang 10 hours ago|
Psychopath implies lack of empathy so I don't think that's quite the word you want. You could maybe repurpose "psychotic" though!
phyzix5761 8 hours ago|||
Maybe lack of M&Mpathy?
47282847 10 hours ago|||
“ As it turned out, there is nothing special about psychopaths when it comes to understanding or feeling empathy with others. ”

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fulfillment-at-any-a...

But maybe it is like so often more about the contradictory definitions of “empathy”, and capability vs. willingness.

dang 5 hours ago|||
That's interesting! But confusing as well. The test they reference (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy_Checklist) includes lack of empathy. Are they saying that this criterion could be dropped from the test with no effect on the classification?
efilife 7 hours ago|||
How I understand the article, is that they understand why others act in certain ways, they know the mechanism of empathy, but nothing here confirms that they are empathetic themselves. I think this article's conclusion is misleading.