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by Kim_Bruning 10 days ago
> The reason AI works is the reason that people see the face of Jesus in slices of toast, as someone said recently.

Apparently my unit tests can see faces in slices of toast.

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Good for you.

Now, shall we discuss the ecological and commercial cost of that?

So, I notice a https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gish_Gallop , followed by https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts

Let's just say I'm skeptical of your skepticism ;-)

No, it is categorically not a Gish gallop when I post single-line responses at an interval of days.

You are attempting to deflect the argument based on irrelevant side-claims. I'm sure there's a term for that, but I can't be bothered to look it up before my morning cup of tea is done.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48991040 gish gallop

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49012641 moving of goalposts once we started moving to empirical territory.

And I'll get back to getting my units to pass. Have a nice morning!