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by lxgr 1167 days ago
> I certainly don’t feel like I’m an autocomplete engine.

Your mind is what you think and feel with, so I'd take that feeling with a grain of salt on multiple levels.

> Was Gödel also an autocomplete engine? How could an autocomplete engine come up with novel ideas like the incompleteness theorems and understand them?

I think you're reading too much value judgement into the (factual, if provocative) claim of "being an autocompletion engine" here.