> In the US,

I’m not a lawyer, but Chipotle is a US company and this github repo belongs to a US citizen currently residing and employed in New York, so US law might apply here.

Nor the famed Good Will Hunting and Argo actor and director, Ben Afflux

Nor the Cartoon Network show (and later movie) Aeon Flux.

Nor the streaming service Net Flux

Yup. Doesn't work.

You joke but, yeah, when you think about it, the problem with Javascript is the 'script' part. That's actually correct.

I honestly don't understand how you could do JS on the backend in 2026. This language and ecosystem are so bad it's ridiculous. Almost all other options (yes, even PHP) are better.

On the browser at least you have the excuse that there's no other option (hoping Wasm will eventually kill JS for good, but we're not there yet).

> If you give them an infinite amount of time and processing, that wouldn't change.

Hrm I doubt it actually. Llms are capable of discovery, as recent math news showed. This means a "society" of Llms could likely have progress.

Only by having the LLM random walk the hypothesis space with a validator rejecting invalid ones.

The reason why LLM hypotheses are any good is because it already consumed a civilization worth of knowledge. You couldn't have bootstrapped such system with nothing but a few priors/axioms and let it discover the universe.

Well yes, LLM need rich and favorable substrate to grow and learn (or we might say bootstrap)

As well as DNA needs specific substrate (cell with ribosomes and other machinery). As well as humans (one need oxygen atmosphere, food, parents).

But in the world we live in existence of favorable substrate for humans or LLMs is a given thing. It is _already_ bootstrapped. Can we infer something about LLM limits or possibility of it achieving AGI from its bootstrapping requirements?

Only through direction from a mind.

This is an excellent bookmarklet to have:

``` javascript:(function()%7B let i%2C elements %3D document.querySelectorAll('body *')%3B for (i %3D 0%3B i < elements.length%3B i%2B%2B) %7B if(getComputedStyle(elements%5Bi%5D).position %3D%3D%3D 'fixed' %7C%7C getComputedStyle(elements%5Bi%5D).position %3D%3D%3D 'sticky')%7B elements%5Bi%5D.parentNode.removeChild(elements%5Bi%5D)%3B %7D %7D %7D)() ```

Sometimes, this one is needed to fix scrolling after using the previous one:

``` javascript:var r="html,body{overflow:auto !important;}"; var s=document.createElement("style"); s.type="text/css"; s.appendChild(document.createTextNode(r)); document.body.appendChild(s); void 0; ```

’ instead of '

I may be wrong on the movies' timelines, but isn't a 386 too modern for the 1980s?

The what?

Portmanteau of slop and staccato I think?