Message from @Gen Kumon
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lactose intolerance <:pepe_why:378719408367075333>
Reminds me of an old Asimov story, where the scientists try feeding data to a supercomputer to solve various problems of a city
And at first the solutions seem random, like, the solutions for frequent power outages is to buy more cat food,
hmmmmmmmm
To reduce pollution they start painting houses green
sounds neat
modern problems require modern solutions
*To reduce crime they stop selling a particular type of screwdriver*
to Anglo people
i bet he got that idea from those correlation graphs
Untill eventually the computer starts asking to meddle with individual people
And eventually they jam an hammer in the computer
hi Paul <:boomer:514203388704063489>
Mind you this was written when computers were as big as rooms
you big into sci fi
i like cyberpunk
<:boomer:514203388704063489>
fello all
william gibson invented cyberpunk
post nuclear test science fiction is the best
Yeah
Multivac best boy
There's still a few of them I haven't read.
I did enjoy...oh, I don't remember the name. The one where it's suicidal.
Oof
Yeah I remember that
meh, some of that old stuff is kinda boring
gibson was the first person to use the term cyberspace in 1982
@Gen Kumon have you read the one where multivac transcends space and time or something
The Last Question, yes.
Because I would love to find it again
It's the most well known Multivac story.
I presume it's the one you mean, where they keep asking it to reverse entropy.
@Gen Kumon the one where multivac "kidnaps" some dude that just died, to have him help destroy multivac himself
And it ends with Multivac's eventual successor saying "LET THERE BE LIGHT."
Oh, um...
The Last Answer?
Yea, it's a sort of sequel to the one you're talking about
any Sliders fans in the house?