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What if war became just a couple of countries intelligence bots crunching digits of pi until one came up with a new one. That country would be the winner and th
by butlike 3y ago
What if war became just a couple of countries intelligence bots crunching digits of pi until one came up with a new one. That country would be the winner and they could ask one thing from the 'losing' side that didn't result in destruction or terror.
- notpachet 3y agoYou're not far from describing Bitcoin.
- antod 3y agoHumans being humans, they'd then want to start destroying the other sides ability to design/make/run/maintain/afford pi digit crunching intelligence bots. Then ways to defend against those attacks on their people and economy by attacking the aspects of the other sides ability to attack etc. After a few rounds of that, soon the pi digit crunching element is completely replaced by a traditional war.
- cwillu 3y agoThose who try to end warfare, but who do not understand warfare, are doomed to reinvent it.
- PeterisP 3y agoIf the 'losing' side simply refused to give that one thing asked, how could the 'winner' get them to comply?