I agree, I definitely think the person making that statement is saying that he doesn't embrace the simplified Facebook universe where you can LIKE someone/something by clicking on a LIKE button. and I thought the 'LIKE like you' would be a reference to Facebook. Transcript Dear Isaac Do you like me? □ Yes □ No ☒ there is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answerĪdd a comment! ⋅ add a topic (use sparingly)! ⋅ refresh comments! Discussion This title text may also be meant to imply that Isaac Asimov was a supercomputer.Ĭomic 1737: Datacenter Scale also references the short-story in the title text. In 'The Last Question', a character considers a thought that perhaps AC stands for 'analog computer', but in reality this was never the case for example, ENIAC stands for 'Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer' and UNIVAC stands for 'UNIVersal Automatic Computer'. “LIKE like” is a childish euphemism for romantic interest.

Instead of the computer climactically coming up with the solution on how to save the universe from entropy when all humanity is gone, like in the “The Last Question', IsaAC comes up with the anticlimactic excuse of an answer 'I like you, but I don't LIKE like you'. The unique capitalization of 'IsaAC' in this text implies that IsaAC is an acronym for a type of supercomputer named with a similar convention to the computers in 'The Last Question'. Title text is a reference to the ending in “The Last Question”. This allows impatient children to get an answer during a class, and timid children to get an answer without having to ask the person face to face. Notes of this form are stereotypically written by young schoolchildren to gauge or incite romantic interest. Isaac is supposed to check an answer and hand the note back, but Isaac (whose pen is red) has written and selected a third answer, 'there is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer', mirroring the way his computers in the short story responded.

The note asks Isaac to identify whether he likes the note-writer by choosing either “yes” or “no”. The comic depicts a note to “Isaac”, a clear reference to Asimov's name, but possibly depicts what life would have been like for him as a child. In the end, the final computer figured out the answer, but there were no humans left to give the answer to.

The computers always answered 'THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER'. The comic is a reference to a short story by Isaac Asimov ' The Last Question', where humans kept asking successively more complex computers whether entropy can be reversed, thereby preventing the heat death of the universe. 'I like you,' he declared to the void, 'but I don't LIKE like you.'

Title text: The universe long dead, IsaAC surveyed the formless chaos.

Asimov short story the last question