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Abuse of the sign bit in similar ways was a major clue that a true AI was loose in the wild in the short story Coding Machines. https://www.teamten.com/lawrenc
by Izkata 3y ago
Abuse of the sign bit in similar ways was a major clue that a true AI was loose in the wild in the short story Coding Machines.
https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/ https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/
- dweekly 3y agoA wonderful story, though the concept was clearly heavily borrowed from Ken Thompson's classic On Trusting Trust: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...