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Why Does Elon Musk Say Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Answers an Existential Crisis?
Elon Musk says that while he was growing up he had an existential crisis about the meaning of life, and religious texts and philosophers did not give him a good answer. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, did.
He says Adams's point is that the purpose of life is to learn what questions to ask about the universe.
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