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

  • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    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.

    • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
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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.