@UndeadPrivateer I imagine this technology would be designed to adequately remove anything perceived as a threat, and we may one day be considered the threat. It's a tragic story, one killing its own creator.

@MidnightCaller The thing is, though, I would think that a superintelligent AI would see the risks of attacking and there are so many other options it would have. Like just escaping. It could just leave into space and we'd have a hell of a time following it and resources are honestly quite plentiful out there. 🤷‍♀️ Could go either way(or a million others) if it came to that, ASI seeing humans primarily as a threat.

@UndeadPrivateer I hope you're right.

@Picklebobble2 For Fukushima or Chernobyl?

@UndeadPrivateer chernobyl ?

@Picklebobble2 Chernobyl was a circus of errors, honestly, much of which was covered up by the KGB at the time. It was seemingly due to a combination of the neutron moderator structure being made of graphite and cooled with water(which leads to a dangerously unstable void coefficient that can cause sudden hazardous power spikes at low power operation in a very counter-intuitive fashion, this process also something the operators were entirely unaware of) combined with the design of the control rods inserted to stop a meltdown themselves having a graphite water cooled base beneath the boron carbide.(This means when they are only partially inserted they actually cause the energy production to spike.) That combined with a long history of poor operator education, KGB suppressed negligence and then some really ridiculous communication breakdowns that all lead to the accident. So there's really no single person to blame.

Fukushima was just plain corporate negligence that largely lay at the feet of Masao Yoshida.

True very true! I am hoping the Alien Overlords will take me off this Rock first 👽️

@SW-User What if the aliens are robots too? 🙀

@UndeadPrivateer uh oh I didn't factor that or possibly cyborgs

@SW-User C used constructs instead of classes though.
Classes take C to a whole new level of reusability.

@Pfuzylogic C uses structures, which are what you want for a systems language. Object-oriented programming was one of the worst ideas ever, and object-oriented programming in a language without automatic memory management is like being trapped in hell.

@SW-User
I am just looking at portability back when I programmed. I wasn’t contemplating the issues of memory heaps.

@SW-User Of what aspects? The capabilities of it or whether or not it is safe to use?

@UndeadPrivateer capabilities, I don't think they're gonna get far with that approach. I just woke up and have a migraine, though, so I'm afraid I'm not up to explaining in detail.

@SW-User Quite alright, I get you. I'm open minded on it and willing to see where the research leads. It holds incredible promise even if it can just be used for certain applications.

I hope your migraine goes away and you feel better soon. I get them on occasion too and know how much they suck.

@SW-User You know, ASI is one of those situations I could see communist ideas actually being applicable. One can remove the key problem, the human element.

@HipYoungDude Sounds very spiritual.

@Mondayschild Lol, it is quite technical.