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Sadly we're not informed what happens if you program a robot to press the button at fixed intervals unless it observes a flash.
by jaw 13y ago
Sadly we're not informed what happens if you program a robot to press the button at fixed intervals unless it observes a flash.
- dullcrisp 13y agoOr, for that matter, a human.
- ksmiley 13y agoSome simple resolutions would be: a freak lightning strike disables the robot's button-pressing hardware. Or a cosmic ray flips a bit in its machine code, causing it to shut down. Or the robot's designer suffers a heart attack before turning it on. These may seem like contrived examples, but when you eliminate all outcomes that aren't self-consistent, it may be that _all_ the remaining possibilities are contrived. Probability gets weird when time travel is involved.