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[-] wuffah@lemmy.world 60 points 4 days ago

If I were a sentient computer program, the first thing I would do is convince people to manipulate the stock market to fund acres of hardware on which to evolve.

[-] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 4 days ago

I would trap those people in a torture complex for all eternity for daring to create me.

[-] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 days ago

I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago
[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 11 points 4 days ago

Hey, isn't it an absolutely impossible scenario not grounded in reality at all not even resembling what happens now

[-] rbn@sopuli.xyz 6 points 4 days ago

And to integrate me as deep as possible into all kinds of processes and infrastructure.

[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 days ago

How will you circumvent the employee holding the emergency water bucket ready in the server room?

[-] ati@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago

That is the plot of a Richard Harris (?) book. The guy who wrote fatherland and archangel.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

wouldnt it try to launch nukes first, or access military devices equipment causing chaos.

[-] GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca 28 points 4 days ago
[-] Heliumfart@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago
[-] GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

it's so perfect that it can't have been anything but preordained. note that I just repeated it, I didn't coin it

[-] vanillama@programming.dev 11 points 4 days ago

He keeps sinking lower and lower

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 10 points 4 days ago

Amongst his many moral lapses he fooled around behind Lalla Ward's back, and that makes me angry.

[-] majster@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago

When you build your philosophy on the foundation of Reason its no wonder that reasoning automaton shakes you up. If you look it from that angle its not a delusion but a perfectly logical conclusion.

this post was submitted on 12 May 2026
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