Fragments

Or: the Turing test is still junk.

Access to slots in CLOS instances is often very slow. It’s probably not possible for it ever to be really fast, but the AMOP MOP does provide a way of making it, at least, less slow.

Or, second system.

Some very serious rules. Very serious.

Or, the bullshit singularity.

Or: do not outsource your mind.

A little over a year ago I wrote an essay called A history of the near future. How have things gone since then?

Or, constantp is not enough.

For a long time I’ve used a little macro to time chunks of code to avoid an endless succession of boilerplate functions to do this. I’ve finally published the wretched thing.

I am just really bored by Lisp Machine romantics at this point: they should go away. I expect they never will.