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tclancyyesterday at 10:25 PM2 repliesview on HN

It’s a reference to Bernard Shaw, who once said that if we ever created a truly artificial mind it would be inside a turtle’s shell. Sturgill Simpson covered the track on his seminal work, Xeno’s Paradox.


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Dumblydorrtoday at 1:21 AM

Might be a reference to the story at the beginning of A Brief History of Time, attributed to Bertrand Russell’s audience member.

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eyepea2007yesterday at 10:51 PM

an LLM tells me there is no evidence that Bernard Shaw ever said any such thing :)

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