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0 pointsnaasking2y ago0 comments

> 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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For the record, that wasn't me, it's a famous quote from Edsger Dijkstra.

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.

naaskingOP2y 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.

Etherlord872y ago

Is it interesting to ponder if the Earth is flat?

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