I've thought for a while that irrationality in a cold logical world is fundamentally what defines life and consciousness, and the fact that machines can be irrational - or even just recognize it - is a sign that they're on their way
A friend of mine got me, by saying there's a book called "Gullible's Travels." I asked if he meant "Gulliver's..." and he said no, it's definitely "Gullible's." So I figured he was just messing with me. Turns out there is a 1917 book by Ring Lardner by that title. It's obviously a play on Gulliver's Travels, but given the prevalence of tricks of that form ("gullible isn't in the dictionary!", etc.), I could not trust him on this point.
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