Re: Build a better mousetrap ...

In article <h59hc3$pa6$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "aaron" <aar.ppl@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

While one might initially scoff at such an event, given how and why some
present-day operating systems crash, you might not dismiss that sort of
occurrence out of hand.

Sending a modern-day OS off the rails is like Dr. Feynmann getting the
ant to walk in circles after tricking it into laying a closed-loop scent
track. They have no intelligence, all action is simply mechanical, and
so trickery is easy.

A computer which can understand "create an adversary worth of this
fellow" and actually follow through by coming up with a fleshed-out
character should also be able to comprehend that it is a bad idea to
endanger the ship with its creation. That it didn't makes it
inconsistently smart.

--
Mike Ash
Radio Free Earth
Broadcasting from our climate-controlled studios deep inside the Moon
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