CDR: Gort in granny-shades (was Re: Al Gore goes
Oskar Sandberg
md98-osa at nada.kth.se
Sat Oct 28 05:17:38 PDT 2000
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 10:48:35PM -0400, Kevin Elliott wrote:
> At 15:38 -0400 10/27/00, sunder wrote:
> >"Riad S. Wahby" wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Ah, but you are forgetting. It was the power from humans "combined
> >> with a form of fusion." Everything, when combined with a form of
> >> fusion, makes a good movie energy source.
>
> That really amused me as well. After all, if you've got fusion why
> bother with the human- cut out the middle man as it were... Somthing
> along the lines of "they needed substantial neural net capacity for
> their to improve their RC-5 key rate" would have been more reasonable.
Maybe they really were being used as batteries, for portability. After
all, it is beginning to seem obvious that electronics will never produce a
battery that can power a laptop for more than like 2 minutes - even if the
AI had fixed fusion stations, they may need to load up a couple of humans
whenever they wanted to go walkabout (or sentinelling or whatever).
"The new Human-Smasher toy with 200 easily breakable features - every
little AIlings dream! (2 AA humans required and sold seperately.)"
> --
>
> "As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both
> instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly
> unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware
> of change in the air--however slight--lest we become unwitting
> victims of the darkness."
> -- Justice William O. Douglas
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Oskar Sandberg
md98-osa at nada.kth.se
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