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Tanjreeve • yesterday at 8:04 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Isn't this basically the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy passage on the computer that spends millions of years to determine the ultimate answer to be 42 and then when people get upset at how meaningless that answer is offers to build another even bigger computer to figure out what the question was.


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dyauspitr • yesterday at 10:09 PM

It’s more akin to the minds from the culture series (though not really).