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It’s a reference to Bernard Shaw, who once said that if we ever created a truly artificial mind it would be inside a turtle’s shell. Sturgill Simpson covered th
by tclancy 2mo ago
It’s a reference to Bernard Shaw, who once said that if we ever created a truly artificial mind it would be inside a turtle’s shell. Sturgill Simpson covered the track on his seminal work, Xeno’s Paradox.
- eyepea2007 2mo agoan LLM tells me there is no evidence that Bernard Shaw ever said any such thing :)
- arvid-lind 2mo agoIt's Sturgill Simpson all the way down: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_All_the_Way_Down_(song) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_All_the_Way_Down_(song...
- tclancy 2mo agoIn my defense, I was suffering from white line fever.
- tclancy 2mo agoWell sure, it was George Bernard Shaw, not the old CNN anchor. Also, turtles are tight lipped by nature.
- Dumblydorr 2mo agoMight be a reference to the story at the beginning of A Brief History of Time, attributed to Bertrand Russell’s audience member. Full story in the book
- tclancy 2mo agoThis guy remembers what I thought I was saying. In my defense I stole the whole thing from Stephen King’s It which I read … forty years ago, that can’t be accurate. Let me sort out my instruments and get back to you.