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Alpha Centauri is actually 13.6 feet from me, Ive got an old sid meyrs disk somehwere in the box of old tech stuff. Great game, used the same engine as Civ 2, think its on GOG these days.
The hitchhiker’s guide to the Galaxy, Chapter 8.
(…)
”Space,” it says, ”is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly
hugely mindboggingly big it is. I mean you may think it’s a long way down
the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space. Listen . . . ” and so
on.
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When techbros said “you can type a question and the AI will answer”, they seem to have forgotten that we expect the answers to be true and accurate.
And they seem to have forgotten that to do that, they actually need a database of facts.
This is the main reason why AI cannot be trusted to answer science questions. They absolutely need a database of facts.
And it’s a reason AI cannot be trusted. Full stop.
Perhaps in 50-100 years after people stop being stupid about it.
Alpha Centauri is actually 13.6 feet from me, Ive got an old sid meyrs disk somehwere in the box of old tech stuff. Great game, used the same engine as Civ 2, think its on GOG these days.
You may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.
The hitchhiker’s guide to the Galaxy, Chapter 8.
(…)
”Space,” it says, ”is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindboggingly big it is. I mean you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space. Listen . . . ” and so on.
In very next line, it says the distance is 4.37 lightyears away… which is also wrong, lol
For anyone wondering, the actual correct answer is about 4.25 lightyears or about 40 trillion kilometers.
Close. The distance to Alpha Centauri is 41.5 petameters (trillion kilometers) and the distance to Proxima Centauri is 40.2 petameters.
wormholes confirmed
So really no excuse when the vogons come
There’s no excuse anyway. The plans were very prominently displayed.
That explains why it’s so hot outside.
Perhaps you have asked a flat-earther AI /s
Forgive Bing. It’s American and doesn’t know the metric system.
Like, are we sure? Has someone actually checked?
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The 4th dimension shortcut
Well then, what are we waiting for? Let’s go visit Alpha Centauri!
So close, yet so far…as once Elvis said