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Machines could use languages that humans probably would never speak, because machines do not care whether a language is human-like.
swyx · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026
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“that's really interesting which like machines could speak that we you know probably would never speak but like yeah machines don't care yeah”Play from 1:31:11Report a misattribution
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