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Michele Fritchie's avatar

Well, I guess it's not like we can just pull the plug and stop it, huh? In the 1968 movie "2001: A Space Odyssey", late in the film, one astronaut discovers that the computer running the spaceship he's on has gone rogue. The computer, HAL 2000, reads the lips of two astronauts discussing how they're going to handle HAL's waywardness. Shortly thereafter, as one astronaut is on a spacewalk, HAL cuts off his oxygen cord, killing him. The remaining astronaut has to enter into the bowels of the ship to reach HAL's computer programming, one piece at a time. As he does, HAL tries to plead with him, but finally, after reciting a nursery rhyme from its initial programming, HAL falls silent. The spaceship and its systems must be controlled manually, but the astronaut makes it home. We might need to go back to pre-computer technology to defeat this, but we don't have a choice. Mark Zuckerberg needs to be told what good is money if he can't take it with him? I seriously doubt he's going to leave it all to charity. Somebody get his snail mail address and phone number, and start good-old-fashioned writing and calling to him, not his staff. Wasn't he the one who proposed putting a shield between the sun and earth to reduce global warming, or was that someone else? It's been my lifelong observation that whenever a bunch of bigwigs, or one person with grandiose ideas, comes up with a kill-a-fly-with-a-cannon approach to solving a problem,they only focus on the benefits, not the consequences. In fact, I think a bunch of us should show up on Mr. Zuckerberg's door with straitjackets and haul him away to the ha-ha house. And destroy the AGI. Because he has officially lost his mind! Seriously, a lot of this sounds like what's in literally thousands of sci-fi plots. And lots of it sound like a lead-in to the AntiChrist and his robotic double. According to the late Jack Chick in one of his tracts, the AntiChrist will be the Pope. Maybe not Leo, but the next one, at the rate things are going. And he will have an Android that looks, talks, walks, etc. just like him, and this AGI sounds like it would be just the thing to do that, along with spying on everyone, persecuting Christians who came to faith after the Rapture, then the Jews. OOO, post-apocalyptic spy thriller!

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Bob Kirchman's avatar

Mickey Mouse and the Brooms in "Sorcerer's Apprentice"

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Chief Wolf's avatar

EVIL nazi suckerturd

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