[barrysteve]

Beautiful talk. Vonnegut nailed it.

Hamlet was the truth of his time. There is meaning to life and stories about life that you can't describe as lying.

"We don't know enough in life to know what the good news is and the bad news is."

We won't know the answer to this challenge for a very long time.

[shagie]

Note that at the same time he refutes his earlier part about the stories of primitive people (as he put it) who had stories that were completely flat ( https://youtu.be/4_RUgnC1lm8?t=2470 ).

[0xBABAD00C]

> We won't know the answer to this challenge for a very long time.

This is essentially the "halting problem", or the "principle of computational irreducibility", or whatever equivalent formulation you want to pick. We'll never know the answer -- for most computations there are no shortcuts to predict their outcomes.