Aug 5, 2026, 7:53 PM

@dpk oh absolutely

they’re part of the reason why my answer to “you know not all AI is a scam right” is “the first AI winter started because most of the AI in the 70s and 80s was a scam”

old symbolics marketing materials are a trip because there’s some legitimately good stuff like macsyma and their 3D rendering pipeline… which they let languish cause there was more money in selling shit that didn’t work and wouldn’t ever work

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