Don't Panic, but Douglas Adams Predicted a Lot of This
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Don't Panic, but Douglas Adams Predicted a Lot of This
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Re: Don't Panic, but Douglas Adams Predicted a Lot of This
#2> God, if you're listening, I will never drink this much again, and so if you'll find your way to help me get from the kitchen floor to the couch, I promise, in future, to keep my remarks about the Catholic Church to an absolute minimum daily requirement...
That's.... oddly specific
Re: Don't Panic, but Douglas Adams Predicted a Lot of This
#3What’s wild to me is that we have basically manifested the Babel Fish in the last few years.
Re: Don't Panic, but Douglas Adams Predicted a Lot of This
#4Was this author's voice supposed to come off like Douglas Adams? Is that the meta joke here? Because it’s kind of impressive.
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#6What’s wild to me is that we have basically manifested the Babel Fish in the last few years.
Huh? We've had pretty good translation in some languages in many general purpose contexts for a while. The LLM stuff if you're referring to that to my knowledge only has some gains in some languages in some contexts. Which is exciting no doubt.
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I'm sorry, but you just sound like an idiot.
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#9Was this author's voice supposed to come off like Douglas Adams? Is that the meta joke here? Because it’s kind of impressive.
I think so, and it's very close in tone to the pedantic pedagogy that Adams created and Snicket adopted.
Re: Don't Panic, but Douglas Adams Predicted a Lot of This
#10Was this author's voice supposed to come off like Douglas Adams? Is that the meta joke here? Because it’s kind of impressive.
Does the author's voice come off like Douglas Adams? It's been quite some time since I read H2G2, but I don't remember Adams being insufferable.