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🗓️ 13 May 2024
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Isaac Asimov's short story collection-turned-novel has very little to do with the mid-2000s Will Smith movie adaptation, which is a good thing. It's a lot less about robots rising up and killing their creators, and more about the law of unintended consequences.
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1:35.8 | and whatever you want yeah just do your own thing you're not a robot right yeah mhm |
1:40.8 | huh are you well we already Right? Yeah. Mm-hmm. Huh? We already read Do Andor Dream of Electric's sheep, which actually I should have put on my list of books |
1:50.9 | we've covered that have robots in them. |
1:53.0 | I just, did we talk about, like, that book was fun because you could own an electric pet and everybody would look down on you for owning it and I'm just now wondering like if Big Mouth Billy Bass technology was like |
2:07.5 | integral to any of the robot animals that they like. |
2:11.6 | Okay here's a quick question. You're going to talk about the book IRobot by Isaac Asimov. |
2:17.0 | Sucks to your Asimov. Just going to get it out of the way now. |
2:19.7 | Does your brain associate Big Mouth Billy Bass with Cabella's Big Buck Hunter or is that just me? |
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