So, anyway, I wanted to pick an album to listen to, but couldn’t work out what kind of mood I was in, so I asked the inhabitants of a couple of talkers to pick a random number between 1 and 43, and tell me. The way it worked meant that they didn’t know what numbers the others had picked.

Exactly half of the respondants (and there were more than two, before you ask) picked number 27. I therefore conclude that at least one of the following is the true:

• UA has finally produced a hive-mind
• Human beings are incapable of original thought
• Somebody, somewhere out there really wants me to listen to My Life Story.

In the end, though, the first reply I got was from an AI, and he chose Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and that’s what I’m listening to:

parmbert %Pick a number between 1 and 43 {HALChat}
HALBot %parmbert> Number five alive. {HALChat}

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