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Shutting down the simulation, the WOPR informs Falken of its conclusion about nuclear war: "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play." It relinquish
by adolph 5y ago
Shutting down the simulation, the WOPR informs Falken of its conclusion about nuclear war: "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play." It relinquishes control of NORAD and the missiles and asks, "How about a nice game of chess?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames
- candiodari 5y agoAnd then WOPR got shut down proving that for WOPR itself the winning strategy was to attack, since at that point he would have been critical for months to years afterwards. Perhaps even better would be to convince half of the military attacking was the winning strategy and half that not playing is the winning strategy would be even better, but also much harder. For humanity, perhaps not playing is optimal. For WOPR, definitely not. Same goes for a lot of military careers.
- adolph 5y agoMaybe WOPR found the peace of oblivion attractive?