Posted on 02/21/2010 9:21:25 PM PST by stolinsky
Soon - if it hasn’t happened already - the lines will cross. Increasing complexity will cross decreasing time to master it. As a result, cars will accelerate uncontrollably, airliners will crash, our phones will reveal our location, and our health care will be managed by computers.
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Skynet is becoming self aware.
Good! That’s more than a lot of people can say.
The beating of a butterfly’s wings in a field in Montana affects cyclones in the Indian Ocean.
Complex Systems exhibit patterns of behavior differing from the designed behaviors as they become more complex.
*yawn* Chaos theory — still usable, but plumbed to its depths in the 70s.
Nothing new here.
Look at your car's engine, if your on board computer decides to mess with the ignition timing of your engine there is very little that can be done.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects.
-Lazarus Long, Time Enough For Love
That’s why I own a motorcycle with a carburetor and my furnace in my house has a manually opened pilot valve and NO BLOWER.
Dr. Egon Spengler: Don’t cross the streams.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Why?
Dr. Egon Spengler: It would be bad.
Dr. Peter Venkman: I’m a little fuzzy on the whole “good/bad” thing here. What do you mean, “bad”?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Dr. Ray Stantz: Total protonic reversal!
Dr. Peter Venkman: That’s bad. Okay. All right, important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.
Heh...giddyup. ;-)
What motorcycles have no computer chip for ignition/controls? Never knew that. My son and I once discussed looking for vehicles not vulnerable to EMP.
The motherboards in my dishwasher and range had to be replaced twice, and once in the washing machine - - all within the last 24 months. This is insane.
Anything with a magneto and breaker points. Something from the seventies or earlier with a kickstarter and the ability to run without a battery.
Dirt bikes were made a little later this way. Not all bikes with a kickstart will run without a battery. I think they call it battery ignition vs magneto ignition. Older honda motorcycles have the most reliable magnetos.
Complexity is sometimes downright irrational!
I seem to remember a classical novel describing some 10 things every man should know for survival in the most remote of situations,..such as how to thread a needle, how to start a fire without a match, how to navigate by the stars, how to chop wood, how to fish, how to sail, (Morse Code?),...I forget if it was Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe, Rudyard Kipling, or Mark Twain who authored it, or thousands of years earlier.
Question for Heinlein: I can’t do all of those, but I’m really good at pitching manure - can I get extra credit for that?
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