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On the other hand, handing out huge wads of cash in the hope that the recipient will do the impossible may not be likely to be directly successful, but it often
by tormeh 12y ago
On the other hand, handing out huge wads of cash in the hope that the recipient will do the impossible may not be likely to be directly successful, but it often has interesting results. I wonder what they will discover. I just hope that it won't be classified.
- danielweber 12y agoThink of the spinoff technologies! (That was, btw, sarcasm. Normally I don't like it, but it seemed appropriate here.)
- arethuza 12y agoI can certainly imagine automated disinformation techniques - or as Neal Stephenson described it in Anathem: "Artificial Inanity".
- logfromblammo 12y agoWhat book was it that posited an automated system for the retroactive logical justification of predetermined conclusions back to reasonable-sounding premises? That was Adams's _Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency_, right? A program called Anthem? That would also be a plausible spinoff.