My crackpot theory is that what stops newcomers is how unergonomic "(" and ")" are to type on typical keyboards. If mainstream lisp dialects used square brackets instead, we'd all be programming in it!

> If mainstream lisp dialects used square brackets instead, we'd all be programming in it!

You've almost convinced/nerd-sniped me to write a(nother) new lisp where we'll be using brackets for forms and lists and no parenthesis in sight. It's a wild theory.

It's just a reader macro, parse out quotes, other reader macros, then replace [ -> (, ] -> ) in the rest and throw into (read).

One does not "simply" use Emacs.

I do, for over a decade. Hope it doesn't die. Can't fathom how people live with these tiny qwerty keyboards on a touchscreen.

There's an open source reimplantation in case the original stops working: https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key

Still, most people who have a crypto wallet on their desktop computer don't get hacked. I always found this interesting because it puts an upper bound to how many machines out there are compromised (at least by an agency that's motivated only by money).

Reading these wikis makes me feel we need to invent some visual convention to indicate AI-generated text. Like a particular color or font. This would make it so people don't feel cheated after they realize they just spent several minutes trying to make sense of something churned out by an LLM. (I mean this as a voluntary design enhancement for sites that want to be nice, of course people can always cheat.)

I think this would be better as a more general bot authored distinction.

Color or font would not necessarily be accessible, a consistent icon or tag around it would likely be easier for screen readers or other low vision situations

Hi! Appreciate your comment, I personally think AI generated content is the future. The reactions people are having to AI generated content is very similar to the reactions to the printing press whereby anyone could write anything and mass distribute it. I think people also had similar reactions to Google indexing the web. (Note: I'm not discounting existential risk, that is real but another topic for another day.)

You may lose some potential audience with this kind of comment, saying AI content is the future is a non-sequitur to an idea about offsetting the very real time-wasting quality issues that it yields for the near future. The printing press analogy might be apt if the Gutenberg bible was full of verses that were modified by the press itself and looked coherent at a glance but with totally different (and sometimes nonsensical) meaning from the original. The Gutenberg press would have still had incredible potential but it would be more than useful to be able to identify book copies that may be affected.

Pretty big stretch to compare a massive disruption to the medium with a massive disruption to the content. The press is far closer to the web than generative content. The output from AI is closer to the unibomber's manifesto, and the only entity calling for burning detractors at the stake is vested-interest individuals like you, and AI itself.

With how the typical search engine experience is going these days, is comparing yourself to Google really a good thing?

You sound like ChatGPT.

Looks like the Emacs developer community needs a Linus to talk some sense into these Mauros

Referring of course to https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75

> Microsoft should just buy Everything off Voidtools

Don't give them ideas, they'd find some way to ruin it.

Azure Voidtools, powered by Cortana AI. Microsoft Account required for use.

Errata: In the table under "How many bytes are in UTF-8?", bottom row, "10000" should be "100000".

I get "The model: `gpt-4-0314` does not exist".

You probably don't have access. I'm not sure what the exact access requirements are - I think you either have to be a GPT Plus subscriber, have contributed code to an OpenAI repo on github, or be on one of their lists of researchers.

Try gpt-3.5-turbo-0301 - I think everyone has access to that.

FWIW, I'm a GPT Plus subscriber and haven't been given API access to GPT-4 despite being on the waiting list for as long as it's been up. I'm told that submitting evaluations can move you up in the queue, but I haven't tried that.