Re: I am like a genius

[Optikos <ZUERCHER_Andreas@outlook.com>]

On Wednesday, February 19, 2020 at 8:26:07 PM UTC-6, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> aminer68@gmail.com writes:
> 
> >I am like a genius, because i have invented many scalable algorithms ...
> 
> Did you misspell "delusional"? Algorithms are "created", not "invented", 
> because similar algorithms have been written hundreds of times by hundreds 
> of other people (many of whom didn't have time, energy, or the delusions of 
> grandeur needed to write about them).
> 
> Moreover, virtually all ideas in software have a value of nothing. The only 
> thing that has value is how the idea is used - Google has value, map-reduce 
> by itself does not. Even the credit typically goes to someone that had 
> little to do with the original idea. (Those who claim otherwise typically 
> are planning to make money by leaching off of those who build stuff rather 
> than "invent" ideas).
> 
> Finally, in the rare case that someone is actually looking for an algorithm, 
> they'll be looking at credible sources, not unmoderated newgroups. Most 
> likely, they'll be looking for a tested and trustworthy implementation in 
> their programming language (here, Ada), not some rambling textual 
> description. If you have to roll-your-own anyway, you might as well create 
> an algorithm tailored to your problem.
> 
>                                     Randy.
> 
> P.S. It's amazing that comp.lang.ada has survived this long as an 
> unmoderated newsgroup. This is nearly the only place on the internet where 
> there is anything sane yet is not moderated. I have to moderate Ada-Comment 
> and ARG and ACAA and ... to avoid clouds of junk that comes daily. Not sure 
> why most of it never seems to get here (the OP excepted, of course).

What if Amine is not a human being at all, but rather is some sort of AI chatbot-esque experiment of some kind?  His postings repeatedly fail the Turing test in a creepy uncanny-valley kind of way.  What especially stands out to me is that Amine behaves inhumanely when asked (by us and by multiple other groups) to refrain from such faux pas and breeches of netiquette.  We have assumed that this inhumane callousness to obey rules and to comply with requests are symptoms of insanity or mental illness of some kind, when it might be merely the lack of build-out so far of that portion the AI's design.

Even an insane or mentally ill person would eventually try to port his inventions to all the non-Pascal languages to which he posts his postings.  But Amine never tries to port to C++ or to Ada or the other languages of the programming groups to which he posts.  This lack of porting to languages other than his beloved Pascal is strikingly odd, given that he certainly desperately yearns for cultivating a far greater following to fawn praise on his work.

Randy, you've been relatively quiet lately on c.l.a.  I hope that indicates nose to the grindstone on something quite good forthcoming. :-)