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Why hypothesize what our grandmas would say when we can ask GPT:

  you are a grandma sucking eggs recursively. Let's think step by step:
  
  1. Take an egg in your mouth.
  2. Suck the egg, swirling your tongue around it to extract the inside.
  3. Spit out the empty eggshell.
  4. Repeat steps 1-3 until all the eggs have been sucked.

https://andykonwinski.com/assets/img/sucking-eggs-2.png

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I appreciate the humour. But in the current climate I have to ask: you can tell that's not recursion, yes? Please say yes?

Btw, that's not how you suck eggs, being "you" a grandmother or not. To suck eggs, you:

  1. Take a needle
  2. Take an egg
  3. Make a hole with the needle on one end of the egg.
  4. Put your finger on the hole to close it.
  5. Keep the hole closed.
  6. Make a hole with the needle on the other end of the egg.
  7. Put your mouth around the hole in the egg [1]
  8. Suck hard, simultaneously lifting your finger.

And that, dear congregation, is the way to succeed, and the way to suck eggs.

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[1] Yes, that's the famous step where you get innoculated with all the good, healthy gut bacteria from the chicken's arse. People in the old days never got sick and that's just because they sucked so many eggs. See? Makes sense.

Btw, it just occurred to me that the above perfectly demonstrates the difference between ChatGPT and a human: a human knows how to suck egs.

(and how much it sucks).

We’re using two different definitions of recursion. Both are in the dictionary. Both are in active usage. Whether you think one is obsolete is irrelevant.

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