I asked GPT-3 for the question to “42”

Re:I asked GPT-3 for the question to “42” by fhars on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @03:14AM (#25206990)

Another fine example for the blatant implicit sexism of IT bro culture. We all know that is was a girl sitting in a small café in Rickmansworth that happened on the solution, not the most brilliant man.

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Re:I asked GPT-3 for the question to “42” by justarandomq on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @03:17AM (#25207008)

noun: man; plural noun: men;

1. an adult male human being.

2. a human being of either sex; a person.

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Re:I asked GPT-3 for the question to “42” by fhars on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @03:20AM (#25207023)

An "his mind", "his study" or "his son" is obviously the second meaning...

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Re:I asked GPT-3 for the question to “42” by justarandomq on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @03:29AM (#25207083)

Oh. You'd be right in that. But you're the one that brought up sexism in the first case! Perhaps it's prejudiced in itself to assume implicit evil from the choice of characters in a story? Not to mention it detracts from the central discussion, which may explain downvotes.

> Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:I asked GPT-3 for the question to “42” by cyphar on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @06:24AM (#25208113)

It seemed pretty clear to me that it was a light-hearted joke, referencing the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy[1]:

> “And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.”

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/79195-and-then-one-thursday...

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Re:I asked GPT-3 for the question to “42” by justarandomq on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @06:53AM (#25208273)

Sokath, his eyes uncovered

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Re:I asked GPT-3 for the question to “42” by hmry on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @05:01AM (#25207588)

Huh, it seems HN really isn't the place for jokes, if it wasn't obvious from everyone taking the article seriously.

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Re:I asked GPT-3 for the question to “42” by MrStonedOne on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @03:23AM (#25207042)

poe?

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