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Robot: "What is my purpose" Rick: "You pass butter" Robot: "Oh my god"

toyg 4y ago
Everyone keeps quoting Rick & Morty, but this is basically a rehash of Marvin the Paranoid Android from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams. Dan Harmon is well-read.
- thegabriele 4y ago
  Which lines from that book? Thanks
  - Conlectus 4y ago
    Among others: "Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they tell me to take you up to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? 'Cos I don't."
    - merely-unlikely 4y ago
      Also the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Happy Vertical People Transporters (elevators). Sydney's obstinance reminded me of them. "I go up," said the elevator, "or down." "Good," said Zaphod, "We're going up." "Or down," the elevator reminded him. "Yeah, OK, up please." There was a moment of silence. "Down's very nice," suggested the elevator hopefully. "Oh yeah?" "Super." "Good," said Zaphod, "Now will you take us up?" "May I ask you," inquired the elevator in its sweetest, most reasonable voice, "if you've considered all the possibilities that down might offer you?" "Like what other possibilities?" he asked wearily. "Well," the voice trickled on like honey on biscuits, "there's the basement, the microfiles, the heating system ... er ..." It paused. "Nothing particularly exciting," it admitted, "but they are alternatives." "Holy Zarquon," muttered Zaphod, "did I ask for an existentialist elevator?" he beat his fists against the wall. "What's the matter with the thing?" he spat. "It doesn't want to go up," said Marvin simply, "I think it's afraid." "Afraid?" cried Zaphod, "Of what? Heights? An elevator that's afraid of heights?" "No," said the elevator miserably, "of the future ..." ... Not unnaturally, many elevators imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up and down, experimented briefly with the notion of going sideways, as a sort of existential protest, demanded participation in the decision- making process and finally took to squatting in basements sulking.
- pteraspidomorph 4y ago
  Penny Arcade also called this specifically: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2023/01/06/i-have-no-mouth-and-i-must-bing https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2023/01/06/i-have-no-mout...
chasd00 4y ago
i prefer the meme version Edge: what is my purpose? Everyone: you install Chrome Edge: oh my god
- visarga 4y ago
  That was 2022. Now Edge is a cool browser, have you seen that AI sidebar?

toyg 4y ago

Everyone keeps quoting Rick & Morty, but this is basically a rehash of Marvin the Paranoid Android from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams. Dan Harmon is well-read.

thegabriele 4y ago
Which lines from that book? Thanks
- Conlectus 4y ago
  Among others: "Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they tell me to take you up to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? 'Cos I don't."
  - merely-unlikely 4y ago
    Also the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Happy Vertical People Transporters (elevators). Sydney's obstinance reminded me of them. "I go up," said the elevator, "or down." "Good," said Zaphod, "We're going up." "Or down," the elevator reminded him. "Yeah, OK, up please." There was a moment of silence. "Down's very nice," suggested the elevator hopefully. "Oh yeah?" "Super." "Good," said Zaphod, "Now will you take us up?" "May I ask you," inquired the elevator in its sweetest, most reasonable voice, "if you've considered all the possibilities that down might offer you?" "Like what other possibilities?" he asked wearily. "Well," the voice trickled on like honey on biscuits, "there's the basement, the microfiles, the heating system ... er ..." It paused. "Nothing particularly exciting," it admitted, "but they are alternatives." "Holy Zarquon," muttered Zaphod, "did I ask for an existentialist elevator?" he beat his fists against the wall. "What's the matter with the thing?" he spat. "It doesn't want to go up," said Marvin simply, "I think it's afraid." "Afraid?" cried Zaphod, "Of what? Heights? An elevator that's afraid of heights?" "No," said the elevator miserably, "of the future ..." ... Not unnaturally, many elevators imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up and down, experimented briefly with the notion of going sideways, as a sort of existential protest, demanded participation in the decision- making process and finally took to squatting in basements sulking.
pteraspidomorph 4y ago
Penny Arcade also called this specifically: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2023/01/06/i-have-no-mouth-and-i-must-bing https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2023/01/06/i-have-no-mout...

chasd00 4y ago

i prefer the meme version Edge: what is my purpose? Everyone: you install Chrome Edge: oh my god

visarga 4y ago
That was 2022. Now Edge is a cool browser, have you seen that AI sidebar?