Chris @ 🦣Aug 7, 2024
The advent of LLMs masquerading as artificial intelligence has made the notion of an absurdly powerful computer, constructed at great expense, and given unseemly resources to answer a meaningful question, only to return the answer “42”, feel more and more prophetic.
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@tenzochris

Here's a mind bender to Douglas Adams. He worked with computers in the 1970s and knew that 42 is the ASCII code for *.

An asterisk is used as a wild card. It can mean anything.

So the meaning of life is anything you want it to mean. 42.

The real answer to the meaning of life was given by the computer in the way a computer could relate it.

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@MyWoolyMastadon @tenzochris
(From an old fanpage)

The earth is one big computer trying to find the question.

Art's and science would be where you would find attempts to formulate this answer.

Literature would be one of the obvious places to look.

1/2

Aug 19, 2024 at 5:31amWeb
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@MyWoolyMastadon @tenzochris

Shakespeare is still one of the most recognized writers. Let os see what question he made famous.

'To be or not to be, that is the question'
See he is actually saying it's the question!

2B in hex is 43
coolconversion.com/math/binary-c

So the answer to the question seen in this light is
'not to be' (42)