Writing line of the day

[bktheirregular]

"If you really need to know what sort of a computer system you're dealing with, order it to perform an impossible task. A pure-logic system will choke on it and probably crash. A true AI will generally respond by telling you to perform an impossible task."

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[bktheirregular]

Yeah, HAL was too bound by logic to point out that he'd been given contradictory directives, I guess.

And my office-mate has a telephone that could probably out-think the laptop I used in law school.