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Asking Gemini 3 to generate Brainfuck code results in an infinite loop

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Re: Asking Gemini 3 to generate Brainfuck code results in an infinite loop

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Don’t need to ban speech when your population preemptively does it for you in fear of an unaccountable corporation blocking you.

Don't need to ban speech when people on their soapboxes keep telling me I need to be in terror. Will somebody pleeeaaaase think of American Puritanism and Globalism?

"Unalive" has reached mainstream usage, on account of those inscrutable censors. If that is not the spitting picture of Newspeak I don't know what is.

Re: Asking Gemini 3 to generate Brainfuck code results in an infinite loop

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> Brainf*ck is the antithesis of modern software engineering. There are no comments, no meaningful variable names, and no structure

That's not true. From the little time I've spent trying to read and write some simple programs in BF, I recall good examples being pretty legible.

In fact, because the language only relies on those few characters, anything else you type becomes a comment. Linebreaks, whitespace, alphanumeric characters and so on, they just get ignored by the interpreter.

Have a look at this, as an example: https://brainfuck.org/chessboard.b

Re: Asking Gemini 3 to generate Brainfuck code results in an infinite loop

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post #5

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Visibilty - i have no idea if there are censoring algorithms at play anywhere.

Chilling effects. Western culture is taken over by American Puritian values thanks to the globlaisation of the media.

Puritans were English protestants. I think you mean to say it's being taken over by European values.

Re: Asking Gemini 3 to generate Brainfuck code results in an infinite loop

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I am sorry if it appears that it was written by AI - I wrote a draft and used AI to assist me since English, is not my first language. I asked it only to format but it has seemed to change the tone and the expressions too '.'

All of a sudden, internet is full of people who hate AI written articles. A few months back, my article got a lot of haters because I used AI tools to improve my draft. Being a non-english first language person, I don't see an issue. But I wish AI improves to an extend where draft to complete articles don't look AI written.

I also don't have English as my first language and I think it's a shitty excuse.

Articles written by AI are soulless and shitty. Do yourself and the readers a favor and write yourself, even if it contains errors.

Re: Asking Gemini 3 to generate Brainfuck code results in an infinite loop

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post #5

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Chilling effects. Western culture is taken over by American Puritian values thanks to the globlaisation of the media.

Puritans were English protestants. I think you mean to say it's being taken over by European values.

Ah yes, after muricans bad, let's have some euros bad.

I learn some amazing things on this site. Apparently the culture agnostic, historical practice of designating words and phrases as distasteful is actually a modern American, European, no actually Globalist, but ah no actually religious, but also no maybe Chinese?, no, definitely a Russian mind virus. Whatever the prominent narrative is for the given person at any given time.

Bit like when "mums is blaming everything on the computer". Just with political sophistry.

Re: Asking Gemini 3 to generate Brainfuck code results in an infinite loop

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post #16

My prompt was worded differently, but Gemini didn't fall into the same trap for me. ``` Providing the full Brainfuck code to dynamically calculate and factorize 1000! is unfortunately not feasible, and here is why: * The Scale: 1000! (1000 factorial) is a number with 2,568 digits. Standard Brainfuck operates on 8-bit memory cells (values 0-255). To handle a number this large, one would first have to write an entire "…

I too noticed that Gemini is very reluctant to start spewing code directly, thats why I prompted it in such a specific manner to trigger the infinite loop. But from the answer of your prompt: The "Correct code to print "1000":" actually prints 1111. So yeah it is still wrong even for something super simple.

Re: Asking Gemini 3 to generate Brainfuck code results in an infinite loop

#28
post #8

Why would anyone feel compelled to use AI to write such a short blog post? Is there no space where I can assume the written contented is communicated 100% by another human being?

I am sorry if it appears that it was written by AI - I wrote a draft and used AI to assist me since English, is not my first language. I asked it only to format but it has seemed to change the tone and the expressions too '.'

I'm also not a native English speaker, but I've decided to avoid using AI for formatting or changing the tone of what I write. That tends to result in extremely generic outputs that "feel" AI, no matter how much effort I put into writing it.

Asking for it to point out mistakes, without providing alternatives, seems like a better way to actually get better at writing.

Prompting the Ai to use a specific tone might result in something that's less generic, but imo that's not the right place to spend efforts.

Re: Asking Gemini 3 to generate Brainfuck code results in an infinite loop

#29
post #5

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Chilling effects. Western culture is taken over by American Puritian values thanks to the globlaisation of the media.

Mhmm, so chilling. Cause word filters aren't as old as computing itself...

passwords were a foreign concept to early computing, but you presume censorship was taking place?

it took awhile of corporatization and profit-shaping before censorship on computers really took off in any meaningful way.

...but it wasn't for any reasons other than market broadening and regulation compliance.

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