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Wololoooyesterday at 12:34 PM2 repliesview on HN

Obligatory Temple OS unhinged video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o48KzPa42_o

Joking apart, the whole thing was both an exercise in madness and genius. Sometimes I wonder what he would have done if he had not gone crazy. We will never know...


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wompawooyesterday at 4:58 PM

He'd probably be writing poison pill generators for AI, obfuscation tools (in the vein of public key crypto, but using entirely plaintext, in a style similar to Cockney rhyming slang) for social media posting. He was pretty anarchistic and antiestablishment. I'm sure we'd still see that coming through.

AdmiralAsshatyesterday at 3:46 PM

> Sometimes I wonder what he would have done if he had not gone crazy.

At what point do you consider he had "gone crazy" relative to the development of TempleOS? Only when he committed suicide? Shortly before then? Last ____ years of his life?

Without trying to sound insensitive, I'd personally argue the entire OS was the byproduct of a "crazy" individual.

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