it’s not coming from the ship’s power plant

Agent Smith September 04, 2022 at 16:35 1350 views 8 comments
The title is copy-pasted from this e-book (EPUB format) I'm reading titled Abudction by Robin Cook.

it’s not coming from the ship’s power plant [...]


Is there anything weird/interesting going on?

Comments (8)

Jamal September 05, 2022 at 05:38 #736129
I suppose you've got a bad epub conversion, one that couldn't deal with curly quotes.
Agent Smith September 06, 2022 at 08:25 #736552
Reply to Jamal Danke for the reply. Anything else that you might wanna say?
Jamal September 06, 2022 at 08:28 #736554
Reply to Agent Smith What are you getting at? Do you suspect that ’ is a tiny glimpse of the language of the universe?
Agent Smith September 06, 2022 at 08:40 #736558
Quoting Jamal
What are you getting at? Do you suspect that ’ is a tiny glimpse of the language of the universe?


I wish! It's just that I can relate to computers (machines); of course not at a grand scale the likes of which you see in films i.e. neither can I communicate with them and nor can I comtrol them in ways better than ever Tom, Dick, and Harry.

The computer couldn't parse the curly quotes as you said and did what it could - it tried to understand the code, but it came out wrong. I feel like that sometimes; ok, let's be honest, all of the time.

I also feel like one of the infinite monkeys in the infinite monkey theorem, writing gibberish mostly but once in a blue moon penning something that kinda sorta makes sense, at least to me. I wonder then, where are the other monkeys? :snicker:
Jamal September 06, 2022 at 08:42 #736560
Reply to Agent Smith Most interesting.
Agent Smith September 06, 2022 at 08:42 #736562
Yohan September 06, 2022 at 11:57 #736614
Quoting Agent Smith
I wonder then, where are the other monkeys?

Isn't that the rest of us? Or do you think the rest of us know what we are doing?
Agent Smith September 06, 2022 at 12:07 #736617
Quoting Yohan
Isn't that the rest of us? Or do you think the rest of us know what we are doing?


I have no idea - the veil ignorance is, as of now, impenetrable for me. I have a feeling it's gonna stay that way for a long, long time.