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By your command
Joe
Tuesday
12:30 pm
The military is adding its two cents to one of sci fi’s favorite topics.
The article advocates embedding an I Robot-style ethos inside our automatons to ensure they don’t go all Cylon/ Skynet/ Kiryu on us. That might not be an awful idea, but it’s a pretty damn lame one.
Happy Birthday, Paulie! NOW DIE!
A better, sexier idea would be to put in a digital lysine contingency, which would allow us to keep control of the robots but not force them to act like a doped-up John Nash. Let’s say that in every robot (especially military ones), you install a transmitter. If this transmitter does not receive a certain encoded daily transmission, the robot shuts down. Rosie might flip out and slaughter George and Astro, but the government could cut off her daily transmission before she drops 10,000 nukes on Caprica.
Any other ideas on staving off Judgment Day?
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The opposite of this happened in Futurama! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother’s_Day_(Futurama)
PS: I think robots would be safer if their guns only shot candy. Just like shriners.
A lysine contingency wouldn’t work.
Life finds a way.
But this isn’t life.
And that’s why you’ll be the first one up against the wall when the robots come for us, Joe.
If BSG has taught me anything, and it has, the best thing to do is to mate with the machines for our survival…
And lets say you manage to control one island of robots, but then there’s this whole other island of robots that InGen never told anyone about. And then there’s Newman trying to rip you off because he feels unappreciated in his own time.
The fundamental flaw in JP was that Sam Jackson would have blown Newman away at the first sign of being a malcontent turncoat.
Good point.
And did Jackson even take a gun when he went strolling through the jungle?
But my real problem with that movie (sorry about the transition from robots to dinosaurs) is that there’s a teenage girl who can operate a unix system but can’t seem to figure out how to turn a flashlight off.
But none of this compares to the gymnastic girl kicking a raptor in JP2.
Ummm… maybe it was too simple for her mind to comprehend?
And here I thought the fundamental flaw with JP lies in Sam Neill’s ardent belief that “even the name ‘raptor’ means bird of prey” somehow adds to the argument that dinosaurs are descended from birds….
(That would be, birds are descended from dinosaurs…. Just one more oversight on my part, the first being that the English language apparently originated in the Jurassic period.)
Ooh, I never thought that the flashlight was just too simplistic a tool. That’s deep.
And I think Sam Neill’s low point was the line “they do move in herds.”
Hell, can I just have robot dinosaurs? Grimlock smash!
Me Grimlock love Kup’s war stories
The day that we make mechanical dinosaurs is the day we all perish in a sea of fire (for some reason…).