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by posterboy 1795 days ago
I think they may be arguing semantics of knowing versus believing, and especially the loss of information to the eventual increase of entropy.

I don't think there's a calculation to prove it because it would require a very thorough definition in the first place, which could be taken as a sufficient answer in its own right. The answer is of course 42.

On another note, at "17 hours ago" and no response I guess they are still writing trying to work it out, or gave up, if they are anything like me and my random blurts