September 11, 2013
#1263: Reassuring explain
[Megan is sitting at a computer, and Cueball is standing behind her.]
Megan: Looks like computers will beat humans at Go pretty soon.
Cueball: Wow.
Cueball: That’s the last of the big ones.
Megan: Yeah.
[Megan looks back over her shoulder at him.]
Cueball: Well, at least humans are still better at, uh,
Cueball: coming up with reassuring parables about things humans are better at?
Megan: Hmm.
[Megan types on her computer.]
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[She leans back over her chair again and addresses Cueball.]
Megan: I made a Python script that generates thousands of reassuring parables per second.
Cueball: Dammit.
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