Works for me. Here’s an Internet Archive version: archive.org/details/…/2up?view=theater
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solariplex@slrpnk.net 6 months ago…it’s gone. Was it short enough to recite in a comment?
charonn0@startrek.website 6 months ago
solariplex@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
Wooo friend was that a good read!
To others who may be intimidated by the number of pages; regain composure, as only 17 of those pages belong to this specific story
Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Can someone get chatgpt to give me a quick summary of the story
elxeno@lemm.ee 6 months ago
@ChatGPT@lemmings.world can you write a summary for the short story “The Last Question” by Isaac Asimov?
Patches@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
There was a question and it was answered
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
This is getting too meta too quickly
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
“Can entropy be reversed?”
Maybe.
TeckFire@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Humans create an AI computer. They propose the question of how to get more energy. Then, they wonder what will happen once the energy they collect runs out. So they decide to ask the AI, “can entropy be reversed?”
The AI responds “insufficient data for a meaningful answer.”
This repeats for generations. Trillions on trillions of years. And eventually, after everything has left, and all that remains is the AI in a state of hyperspace, between spatial reality, it finally decides it has enough data. Its response to this collection is to take it upon itself to reverse entropy, and release energy back into the universe.
Its final command is: “LET THERE BE LIGHT.”