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General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.

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Marvin Minsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1927
Born: August 9
Died: 2016
Died: January 24
Artificial Intelligence Researcher
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New York City
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