Re: AI Ships (Was Re: Nanotechnology)

On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, <cthulhu@csd.uwm.edu> wrote:

>	Hmmmm....That gives me a idea:
>
> New System:	Kirk-esque Captain
>
>	For use against all those pesky rouge AIs that threaten destroy
> all "inferior" organic lifeforms.  The KC uses strange logic to
confound and
> destroy the ship's computer.	Here's an example:
>
> Ship AI:  "All biological beings are inferior.  Everything inferior
must be
> destroyed.  Therefore, all biological beings must be destroyed."
>
> Kirk-esque Captain:  "But you were created by (dramatic pause) an
> inferior biological being.  Therefore (dramatic pause) you are
inferior.
> If you must destroy everything inferior then (dramatic pause) you must
> destroy yourself.
>
> Ship AI:  Destroy myself...Deleting all files ....eerrrrr..
eeeeekkkk...
> Daisy, Daaaaaiiiiissssssyyyyyyy....." (AI burns out.)
>
> Kirk-esque Captain:  "That was (dramatic pause) easy." (Goes off to
sleep
> with sexy yomen.)

Ha ha.	At least this beats that episode in Dr. Who  where he plays rock
paper and scissors with the robots.

					Chen-song