[namaria]

Creating a computer to find "the ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything", getting a cryptic answer and then creating an even bigger and more complicated computer to find the question is a pretty good satire of generative ai based chatbots of exponentially increasing model size.

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Even down to the blind faith that there was an accurate calculation performed, which ultimately justified the planet-computer.

[Deestan]

Don't remember if it made it into the book, but from the radio series my favorite is the scene where they end up in a nightclub filled with dancing mannequins sprayed with sweat in order to convince people it was popular and come in.

[namaria]

> a nightclub filled with dancing mannequins sprayed with sweat

That's pretty much how I see every nightclub, to be fair...

I loved illegal raves when I was in college. Paying big bucks to listen to loops triggered by some influencer feels like a surreal parody...