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"I stand with the people of China and that they need to hire researchers to design some new architecture, or anything extremely fancy." This is amazing. Reminds me of the postmodernism generator: http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/

This got me thinking. Instead of a fixed 404 page, using something like what the Post-modernism Generator[1] uses[2] to generate a web-page, kinda best-effort style. Could be fun :) [1]: http://www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/ [2]: http://dev.null.org/dadaengine/

I love this. it reminds me of the "Postmodernism Generator" [1]. More info on wiki [2]. [1]: http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/ [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism_Generator

It's really great, might be confused with a real content for a while (almost like http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/), but this one is slightly overdriven: "The pedantic academic would easily confuse the idea that the literature would have us believe that a messier box is not but a cod."

I hesitated to start. Partly because I found the original Harry Potter kind of boring/frustrating. And partly because it's fanfiction, a sort of writing I do not normally enjoy. Still, I found it enjoyable and worth my time. Even though I thought Harry's portrayal was pretty uneven (swinging between "scientist/genius in an irrational world" and "arrogant prick demigod"). I liked Drako's additional depth far better than Rowling's one dimensional jerk. http://www.elsewhere.org/rationality/ (rehash of my previous comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3231266 )

Most adults can learn a new language in ~6 months; the real test is how much substance is in each topic. Anyway the real joke about Phd's in Literature has to do with the perception that it's total BS. The great example of this is so-called ‘postmodern generator’ written by Andrew C. Bulhak using the Dada Engine, a system for generating random text from recursive grammars. Using this software (http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo) NYU Physics Professor Alan Sokal’s generated a brilliantly meaningless article which was accepted by a cultural criticism publication, Social Text Vol. 46/47, pp. 217-252 (spring/summer 1996). (Sokal, A., 2007, http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/, accessed May 13, 2007) PS: However, the same could be said for CS depending on your standards for quality (http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/).

Along the same lines (in case you haven't seen it): The postmodern essay generator: http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/ And Alan Sokal's brilliant hoax: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair

I really try to be nice and give an article by Sebastian Marshall a fair chance when it crops up on HN. But every single time, I'm disappointed. There is little to no editing, no digestion process that I can detect that would turn what I find to be haphazard notes into an actual product of a writer. I see that he really, really cares about saying something - apparently, though, not so much about being understood. The content of these articles is at best something that somebody else somewhere has already said better and more succinct. At worst, it's meaningless drivel that could just as well be the work of the postmodernism generator[1]. After a while, the words blend together and I remain astonished how others find meaning in his writing. Maybe they need to supply it themselves? Can anybody point me to something even moderately tangible that Sebastian Marshall has actually done? And yes, I know he has published a book. A book that seems to be about how he's a guy who is crazy and does things. But I have yet to see what those things actually are, besides talking about doing things. The level at which you apparently can never actually learn what he does is maddening to me. [1]http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/

It reminds me of the PoMo jargon generator. See some results here: https://www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/

Postmodernism generator: https://www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/

On a humorous note OP, you seem like exactly the kind of guy who would get a kick out of this postmodern essay generator that a STEM professor wrote using a Recursive Transition Network in 1996: https://www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/ Every now and again, I come back to it for a good chuckle. Here's what I got this time (link to the full essay below the excerpt): "If one examines subcultural capitalist theory, one is faced with a choice: either reject subdialectic cultural theory or conclude that the significance of the artist is significant form, but only if culture is interchangeable with art. It could be said that many desituationisms concerning the capitalist paradigm of context exist. The subject is contextualised into a presemanticist deappropriation that includes truth as a totality." https://www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/?1298795365

See also, the Sokal affair, and the Postmodernism Generator (https://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/). Though that one's coming back to bite us in the butt, what with the LLMs and all. A pity really - I used to believe that actual, rigorous deconstruction of a text was technically feasible and wonder why nobody is trying that. Of course, a humanities scholar with the hacker rigor doesn't become a literary theorist - they become a badass fiction writer that we probably haven't heard of.

Reminds me of "psychoanalyze-pinhead" mode from Emacs: https://www.elsewhere.org/journal/archives/2001/10/07/psychoanalyze-pi…

So, like Postmodernism text generator but with physics? https://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism_Generator

The postmodernism generator did this since the 1990s (including randomly generating the paper too): https://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/

It reminds me of something Postmodernism Generator would generate. https://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/

This was already done with the automatic postmodernism generator[1], which was published in 1996 and is frankly basically much better than galactica at generating plausible gibberish. A particularly nice touch is that it cites references with links to other papers it generates. [1] https://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/ and the original paper here https://www.elsewhere.org/journal/wp-content/uploads/2005/11/tr-cs96-2…

Nope, that was actually the Postmodern Generator.^[1] But nice try! ;) [1]: https://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/

See also the "Sokal Affair" [0] and the "Postmodernism Generator" [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair [1] https://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/

Success predicts success. Maybe it works out: you get funding, you're regarded as a smart scientist etc, so your work is judged with that in mind. Especially in those parts of social sciences that are very essay-heavy and don't deal with disprovable claims and experiments, the difference between "that's total nonsense" and "another intelligent contribution by a fellow scholar" might be mostly knowing the author. They could transition into postmodern studies and use the Postmodern Generator [1] to get their new stuff. [1]: https://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/

Feels a bit like it came from a markov postmodernism generator: http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/ Postmodernist arguments and critiques are like the blue/gold dress. Some people see it as pure obscurantism, just all white noise. Other people see it as full of interesting ideas. I've never seen these two groups successfully hold a conversation about it without getting progressively angrier at each other, mostly devolving into insulting each others' intelligence (like many of the replies to your comment). Add a layer of politics on top of that, to really rile people up, and this whole thread is just a recipe for disaster.

How to write prolifically and expert-like? Why, by using the Postmodernism generator, of course! http://www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/ Hint: Hit refresh to generate a new essay.

And once you've read about that, make sure to have a laugh with the Postmodernism Essay Generator (http://www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/)

Postmodern Essay Generator gets an A-. https://www.gradeflex.com/graded/5856b8c2de6a20085a2d2bd9 http://www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/

The authors of these music-generators should submit some of the compositions to online music libraries, to song competitions, etc, and see if they get accepted! "A la" what happened, back in the day, with peer-reviewed journals and: http://www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/

It happens in academia too: http://www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/

I don't really know if this is a fair characterization of postmodernism or not, but I have to wonder about the circumstances under which a total lack of structure would actually be useful in a human life? It seems like to me an interesting but not very profound observation to make that our minds traffic in structure and patterns. What alternative, I wonder, is proposed to solving problems using logical constructs? For those that need an introduction to the finer points of POMO, don't miss this: http://www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/ (don't miss the footer!)

This is quite the deja vu: http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/ As I remembered it, their "fake" (automatically generated) paper was accepted into a conference. They then tried to submit a second paper that was also auto-generated, and that's when they got caught. I may be confusing the two stories, though. In any case, it's very easy to generate your own postmodern gibberish papers - every time you visit this page, it refreshes with a new one: http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/

Having had a cursory look at 'feminist critiques of logic' and 'paraconsistent logic' I am reminded of this post-mordern article generator, complete with citations: http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/

Is this article by any chance related to the pomo generator?[1] [1] http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/