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richrichardsson | on: Don't be a meat proxy
Aren't you clever knowing the periodic table symbol for gold! Actual Intelligence could grasp this was a simple keytranspose typo...
BigTTYGothGF | parent | next
> Aren't you clever knowing the periodic table symbol for gold!

I don't usually like to gatekeep but knowing that "Au==gold" is one of those basic facts that everybody on a forum like hacker news should know and find unremarkable.

You might even say it's puts on sunglasses periodic table stakes.

kruffalon | parent | next
I disagree...

Actual intelligence might be[0] to know what typos (of any kind) are fun to riff off.

Maybe this didn't hit the mark for you, but it got a chuckle out of me (especially considering the last hype before AI was crypto).

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[0] I don't even try to figure that out anymore, in a few years I'll pick the definition that I think best captures my thoughts

dwedge | parent | next
> ...

See that way too often in comments like this. Anyway, it was pretty likely they knew it was a typo, it was just a funny response.

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richrichardsson | root | parent
My mistake, I was under the impression Reddit was the place for facetious "funny" comments.
dwedge | root | parent
LinkedIn is the place for mid-intellectual condescension with an ellipsis at the end.
pringk02 | parent
I think you missed that the actual intelligence knew that it was a typo, and that the joke they made riffed on pretending that they did not know.