cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46731701
Video discussion of this event by Steve Shives (known for his star trek videos but also does politics) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6aMQAv-JYpk
this post was submitted on 12 May 2026
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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.
How will you circumvent the employee holding the emergency water bucket ready in the server room?
And to integrate me as deep as possible into all kinds of processes and infrastructure.
wouldnt it try to launch nukes first, or access military devices equipment causing chaos.
I would trap those people in a torture complex for all eternity for daring to create me.
I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream
AM
#relatable
That is the plot of a Richard Harris (?) book. The guy who wrote fatherland and archangel.
Hey, isn't it an absolutely impossible scenario not grounded in reality at all not even resembling what happens now