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Scribbled Notes: Asking AI if "Joshua" was the first AI gone wrong, Nostalgic Emo is having a moment; plus more stories of how time is not real

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Jennifer: He wasn't very old.

David Lightman: No, he was pretty old. He was 41.

Jennifer: Oh yeah? Oh, that's old.

That was the exchange in “WarGames” when Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy’s characters discuss the death of Dr. Stephen Falken.

When the movie debuted in theaters on June 3, 1983, Matthew Broderick was 21 years old, playing a character probabl…

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