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Frances Leader's avatar

Rat's cousin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for that one! xx

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Cafe Comments by Lauri Harris's avatar

“We’ll never know what actually happened but what we know is optimization tasks can be tricky, and often the best way to achieve a ‘perfect score’ can be ending the game as soon as possible — or not starting it at all.”

So, the military leadership should learn to play tic-tac-toe before GTNW or just watch the end of the movie War Games? How do we ge them to do that?

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Rat's avatar

Well, at the very least they should do more «thought experiments» to imagine all the ways things can go wrong.

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Tardigrade's avatar

Or read more science fiction ;)

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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

makes me think of that plane that went down a while ago, that the govt could not locate. I think the AI is nowhere near what they pretend it is.

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Al Campbell's avatar

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

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Bernhard Guenter's avatar

Rat should make the design of the bomb open source so that only this kind of bomb will be produced in the future, because financial reasons. 😁

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Rat's avatar

We’re still working on fastenings to make sure it doesn’t move even accidentally.

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Bernhard Guenter's avatar

Smart move...

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Stephen Rowland's avatar

I assume the smart bomb could be duped by its battery.

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George Bredestege's avatar

War Games the movie. I believe the computer quickly realized at the end that the only way to win was not to play at all.

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the long warred's avatar

💩 - they are WE. With rocks and sticks WE war if nothing else.

Rocks are a constant in all protests, sticks were recently used in a border battle in the mountains between India and China. 💩

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Lois Thomson Bowersock's avatar

Rat's cousin is a genius!

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Rat's avatar

We’re opposed to gain-of-function research in humans. Or would it be loss-of-function?

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