Who’s underemployed now?

headline from official webpage title. print headline is “The Revenge of the Philosophy Majors”

    • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      Just filing away the movie and thinking how nothing will ever compare to the books, though it’s been a while since I’ve read it. What’s the connection here?

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        They (the “mice”) build Deep Thought to solve the biggest philosopical question, the meaning of life, the universe and everything.

        But with the Vogons galactic cock-up terminating the program right before its second attempt completed, they sorta just gave up and needed to find something that sounds profound enough to go on talk shows.

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          1 month ago

          Oh, yeah, I forgot about Deep Thought. I always thought of him as a super advanced mainframe and Marvin more as an AI.

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        1 month ago

        In addition to the other answer, there’s also a scene where philosophers feel like Deep Thought is stealing their jobs and then it comes up with a way to make them infinitely famous by getting them to appear like they are arguing about something profound