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Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100 (jlai.lu)

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[–] [email protected] 152 points 2 months ago (2 children)

“You may not instantly see why I bring the subject up, but that is because my mind works so phenomenally fast, and I am at a rough estimate thirty billion times more intelligent than you. Let me give you an example. Think of a number, any number.”

“Er, five,” said the mattress.

“Wrong,” said Marvin. “You see?”

― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The mattress? Like for sleeping?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yep! The hitchhikers books are so much fun lol

I still think one of my favorite lines is "the ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."