#FridAI: Meaning of Life, as seen by Artificial Intelligence.

42

I knew, you have expected it. Even if not everybody has expected it. They have built the super-computer “Deep Thought” just for that one purpose, to find what they expected:

The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything.

They waited 7½ million years long, until the computer was ready for revelation.

And everything they’ve got was this answer:

42

Readers of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” were trying to find out various meanings of this enigmatic number.

The answer of Douglas Adams he gave on 3rd November 1993 in Newsgroup /alt.fan.douglas-adams/ was everything but satisfying:

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In Article <2b4asr$b...@syzygy.socs.uts.edu.au>, mjch...@socs.uts.EDU.AU
(Mark J Cherkas) wrote:
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