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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's a popular figure in a fringe topic who's contributed to computer science enough to have earned respect (and rightfully so) who writes these fringe articles with so much fanfare and pretentiousness that the entire meaning is impossible to extract.

It just ends up sounding like a pretentious word salad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Who?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

warning: it is very fringe.

Jacques Vallee. He had a Ted talk (or Ted ex or whatever) and it was equally unimpressive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Note that he's French. The French have a particularly bad case of this (e.g. continental philosophy).