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I don't use chatgpt, his diatribe seems to be setting off a lot of red flags for people. Is it the people coming after me part? He's a billionaire, so I could see people coming after him. I have no idea of what he's describing though. From a layman that isn't a developer or psychiatrist, it seems like he's questioning the ethics and it's killing people. Am I not getting it right?
I'm a developer, and this is 100% word salad.
This is actual nonsense. Recursion has to do with algorithms, and it's when you call a function from within itself.
My program above would recur infinitely, but hopefully you can get the gist.
Anyway, it sounds like he's talking about people, not algorithms. People can't recur. We aren't "recursive," so whatever he thinks he means, it isn't based in reality. That plus the nebulous talk of being replaced by some unseen entity reek of paranoid delusions.
I'm not saying that is what he has, but it sure does have a similar appearance, and if he is in his right mind (doubt it), he doesn't have any clue what he's talking about.
You're not the boss of me!
And you're not the boss of me. Hmmm, maybe we do recur... /s