That’s the answer to life and everything else that you were talking about.” What’s the answer?”ĭeep Thought said, “The answer is 42. They booted Deep Thought back up, and they were like, “Okay. They were so excited to get the answer that would end all of their arguing. Then after seven and a half billion years, they came back, and they were so excited. Then they waited and generations lived and died or warped across dimensions, whatever they did. They said, okay, this is really important to us to settle this argument. He’s like, “Come back in seven and a half billion years,” or roughly the length that 2016 has seemed.Īnd so they waited. The answer to life and the universe and everything.”ĭeep Thought said, “Okay. They’re like, “You know, the answer to everything, to stop our arguing. They said, “Deep Thought, tell us the answer.” They created this computer, and it was called Deep Thought because the marketing department got involved at some point. They got so fed up with this constant arguing that they found their brightest and best, and they said, build us a super smart, super computer to calculate the answer to put an end to this constant arguing.Īnd so they did. They couldn’t agree, and it was really important to them, and they just went back and forth and back and forth. Despite their astronomical intelligence or perhaps because of it, they bickered constantly about the meaning of life. Long ago, way out on the other side of the galaxy, there was a species of hyper intelligent, pan dimensional beings.

That’s what we can hope for, right? Learning after the sadness and anger. It kind of starts with a cute story and then maybe there’ll be sadness and anger. We’ll see how this goes because my talk is tangentially related to things that we’re thinking about.

Erika Hall: I am the filling in this afternoon’s sad American sandwich, so yeah.

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