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_____@lemm.ee 4 weeks agoThere’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.
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Who?
_____@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
warning: it is very fringe.
Jacques Vallee. He had a Ted talk (or Ted ex or whatever) and it was equally unimpressive.
blackbrook@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
Note that he’s French. The French have a particularly bad case of this (e.g. continental philosophy).