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There was a (rumored) integer overflow bug in the game Civilization which would cause an AI that was configured for pacifism to start launching nukes. https://

There was a (rumored) integer overflow bug in the game Civilization which would cause an AI that was configured for pacifism to start launching nukes. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/nuclear-gandhi https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/nuclear-gandhi

CapitalistCartr 3y ago
Gandhi. He was set for maximum pacifism. But the range was 0-255, and rolled around.
- TMWNN 3y ago
  As the link odyssey7 cited (and which you obviously didn't read) states, there is no proof that any such bug ever existed, with Sid Meier himself denying it. odyssey7 was correct to described it as "rumored".
- acheron 3y ago
  This is not a true story. There was always a bit of a meme about Gandhi because "haha Gandhi and nukes" but he was no more likely to use them than any other AI. The "integer overflow bug" story was invented by apparently a random person decades later who stuck it in a wiki, and then via citogenesis it spread everywhere.