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kickaha ([personal profile] kickaha) wrote2006-10-18 09:09 pm

One of them! One of them!

Met with the new team today.

I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. I was skeptical, but... what they want to do, I've done, and what I want to do, they've done. The research dovetails wonderfully, and I think we can push each other's research ahead a couple of years in just a few months.

And they don't need convincing.

Oh. Yeah. Baby.

Any doubts I had about this move were utterly erased today.

[identity profile] georgmi.livejournal.com 2006-10-19 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah--I've figured it out. Or at least, I've figured out a scenario that would result in revocation.

Step 1: Build SkyNet.
Step 2: Connect SkyNet to every piece of machinery in the world.
Step 3: Accept Turing Award.
Step 4: Judgment Day.
Step 5: Hijinks ensue.
Step 6: The remnants of humanity rip your Turing Award from your cold, dead hands.

[identity profile] kickaha.livejournal.com 2006-10-19 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I believe that's known as "Gosling's Plan". Lucky for us, Java's simply too underpowered for step 4.

Of course, by the time he finished step 3, it might have finally matured... :D

[identity profile] franktheavenger.livejournal.com 2006-10-19 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
The idea of Skynet being Java-based is offensive even to me. :p

[identity profile] kickaha.livejournal.com 2006-10-19 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
It's the T-1, with JavaBeans!

[identity profile] georgmi.livejournal.com 2006-10-19 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd think you'd need at least a T-3 to control all that machinery--lag is a Bad Thing when you're engineering a nuclear Armageddon.