Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulatio…

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Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them. ✨ Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter (2012). The Long Earth: (Long Earth 1), p.72, Random House
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I MAY HAVE ALLOWED MYSELF SOME FLICKER OF EMOTION IN THE RECENT PAST, said Death, BUT I CAN GIVE IT UP ANY TIME I LIKE. ✨ Terry Pratchett (2009). Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16), p.175, Random House
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Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was. Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.
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Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them. ✨ Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter (2012). The Long Earth: (Long Earth 1), p.72, Random House

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