@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 [i]to[/i] 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 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.

@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.

@HipYoungDude Sounds very spiritual.

@Mondayschild Lol, it [i]is[/i] quite technical.