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My bet is on GPT-2 (GPT-3 would probably generate better text). This whole reply just isn't coherent (first it's a defence contract, then it's learning software for kids?). So either AI generated or someone with some mental illness.


Those emails are textbook schizophrenia.


The fact that this email could plausibly be someone with schizophrenia or an actual defense contractor speaks volumes about the latter’s reputation.


It could be both for that matter. Previously perfectly (at least seemingly) stable people can have unexpected breakdowns later in life.


Yeah, I have a seriously hard time believing someone responsible for a multibillion dollar defence project writes that shit.


Sadly, I see it as in the realm of possibility.

Gov contracting is an ecosystem on its own and those that figure out the bureaucratic hoops can survive a long time without needed much technical knowledge. Some of those individuals lose touch with what is going on outside of the defense industrial base.


I have a hard time believing that they only spent $15k on a prototype for a multimillion dollar defense project.


It might be he did, or was planning to do, a bid on a government project that wouldn't have stood a chance in hell, but he already imagined he was going to win that bid. And then stuff happened and he felt cheated out of his chance.


I once had a guy who ran an enterprise supplying software to the defence sector try to swing a punch at me in a meeting, so I can believe it.


Yep, I was going to suggest this too. It feels copy/pasted from Talk to Transformer.




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