Wouldn’t it be wonderful if, in the world of LLMs, Lisp became the new lingua franca, because we don’t have to convince humans that parens are scary, and because it enables exactly this kind of magic.

Full circle for Lisp as an AI language.

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atgreen 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Hey, I'm the author. Yes, I worked in the University of Toronto's AI lab as a student many years ago, back when Lisp in AI was a thing. It definitely would be full circle!

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jonhohle an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

LLMs can’t count. Do you think they can balance parens?

Personally, I’ve wondered why they don’t just generate machine code.

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	▲	shoobiedoo 38 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I never thought of that. Humans avoid machine code for many reasons. If LLM's don't need to produce human-readable output, then why not?