Re:In Memoriam: Thomas E. Kurtz, 1928–2024
by schoen on Friday November 15, 2024 @03:18AM
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I'd say Douglas Adams novels are full of superintelligent and/or superpowered entities that don't always think things through properly. There's a serious Murphy's Law flavor to his scenarios, even if you're the President of the Galaxy or the Man Who Rules the Universe or a planetary engineer or the most intelligent robot ever built or whatever. You're still going to trip and fall, or experience unrequited love, or get stranded on a boring planet, or have an embarrassing misunderstanding, or concoct a wacky scheme that goes wrong somehow.
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Re:In Memoriam: Thomas E. Kurtz, 1928–2024
by kaba0 on Friday November 15, 2024 @08:38AM
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Given human events, he was not wrong in that conclusion. (If we even consider ourselves super intelligent)
Re:In Memoriam: Thomas E. Kurtz, 1928–2024
by fuzztester on Friday November 15, 2024 @08:59AM
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astute - you and gp both.