The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it. Margaret Atwood
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The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.

This quote is known as “The Halting Problem” and it has been a matter of controversy for centuries. The question is whether a machine could ever write a sentence without a mistake. It seems impossible, but some theorists claim that a computer can do it if it has enough memory and time to think about every word before it writes out the sentence.

If you were to write a sentence that someone else wanted to read, would they be able to tell if it was written by a computer?

Source: The Blind Assassin

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