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September 11, 2013

#1263: Reassuring explain

Reassuring

[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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