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I want to thank you for this comment. It's this kind of subtle, low-key, informed speculation that generates good, hard sci-fi concepts, which are absolutely re
by hitekker 11y ago
I want to thank you for this comment. It's this kind of subtle, low-key, informed speculation that generates good, hard sci-fi concepts, which are absolutely relevant to my WIP novel.
"oh what if the machine suddenly came alive!?" has been done 1000 times. But such concepts like: a computer can detect and act patterns which we cannot, in ways that are almost, if not possibly intelligence, are magnitudes more believable, and therefore, compelling.
Thanks! :-)
- Jobbers 11y agoIs it about a tyrannical super-AI that maintains power over the human race by strategically releasing butterflies into the wild at specific times and locations?
- Anderkent 11y agoWhy would it bother if it can just convince people to do the thing it wants done by talking to them?
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- Falcon9 11y agoIt is now.
- hitekker 11y agoActually, it's a Soviet knock-off of a PDP-10. Constructed in 1970's India, the machine has a 12mhz clock rate, a 4M of RAM, and a directive to bring about "World Peace". Of course, those fools underestimated it. They should have known better...