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Better than waiting 7.5 million years to have a tell you the answer is 42.
by intrasight 7mo ago
Better than waiting 7.5 million years to have a tell you the answer is 42.
- thinkingtoilet 7mo agoMaybe you should have asked a better question. :P
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- whyenot 7mo agoShould have used a better platform. So long and thanks for all the fish.
- ep103 7mo agoSome one should let Douglas Adams know the calculation could have been so much faster if the machine just lied.
- lesam 7mo agoI think Adams was prescient, since in his story the all powerful computer reaches the answer '42' via incorrect arithmetic.
- xg15 7mo agoThe Bistromathics? That's not incorrect, it's simply too advanced for us to understand.
- aktau 7mo ago“What do you get if you multiply six by nine?” (One) source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/1mjudsm/comment/n7dsq4t https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/1mjudsm/comment/n7d...
- xg15 7mo agoOk, my Hitchhiker-foo was too weak, thanks!
- avianlyric 7mo agoYou also have the problem that if the both the ultimate answer to life the universe and everything, and the ultimate question to life the universe and everything, are know at the same time in the same universe. The universe is spontaneously replaced with a slightly more absurd universe to ensure that both the question and answer become meaningless. To quote the message from the universes creators to its creation “We apologise for the inconvenience”. Does seem to sum up Douglas Adam’s views on absurdity of life.
- bartread 7mo agoLooked at a certain way it's incredible that a 40-odd year old comedy sci-fi series is so accurate about the expected quality of (at least some) AI output. Which makes it even funnier. It makes me a little sad that Douglas Adams didn't live to see it.
- patapong 7mo agoAlso check out "The Great Automatic Grammatizator" by Roald Dahl for another eerily accurate scifi description of LLMs written in 1954: https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/1953-dahl-thegreatautomaticgrammatizator.pdf https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/1953-dahl-theg...
- zozbot234 7mo ago"Can write a prize-winning novel in fifteen minutes" - that's quite optimistic by modern standards!
- staticman2 7mo ago42 wasn't a low quality answer. The joke revolves around the incongruity of "42" being precisely correct.
- AnonymousPlanet 7mo agoYes and then no one knows the prompt!
- sgustard 7mo agoSee also Asimov's The Last Question https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question