[ColinWright]

People might want to read the comments from two of the previous submissions of this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1287594

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5585646

In particular, there's a link to "The Last Question"

http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html

That's been submitted before too:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=the+last+question#!/story/sort_by_...

[CurtMonash]

Even more relevant is the other Multivac story "All the Troubles of the World", as per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Troubles_of_the_World

[RangerScience]

One of those linked this:

http://localroger.com/prime-intellect/mopiall.html

which was :woah: