Skynet is becoming self aware.
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.
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. ;-)
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.
Complexity is sometimes downright irrational!