Zack Weinberg on Nostr: I think it was also Douglas Adams — if my memory is correct, in one of the Dirk ...

I think it was also Douglas Adams — if my memory is correct, in one of the Dirk Gently novels — who had someone working on a computer system that would take in a bunch of data and a predetermined conclusion and spit out a plausible-sounding argument for why the data supported that conclusion.