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