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naasking
778 days ago
> Anyway, the question of whether computers can think is as interesting as the question whether submarines can swim.
Given the amount of ink spilled on the question, gotta disagree with you there.
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Scarblac
777 days ago
For the record, that wasn't me, it's a famous quote from Edsger Dijkstra.
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iraqmtpizza
778 days ago
Endless ink has been spilled on the most banal and useless things. Deconstructing ice cream and physical beauty from a Marxist-feminist race-conscious postmodern perspective.
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naasking
778 days ago
Except one is clearly a niche question, and the other has repeatedly captured the world's imagination and spilled orders of magnitude more ink.
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Etherlord87
778 days ago
Is it interesting to ponder if the Earth is flat?
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