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originally posted by: NewNobodySpecial268
a reply to: Direne
Humans has a dark side alright, no argument from me there.
The question remains: why interfere here?
When the errors are systematic enough, algorithmic control fails on its own terms. Our business is to create massive amounts of systematic errors, that's what we do here. We create an error in a Chinese lab for a virus to be released, or we create errors in some SCADA system to cause an accident in the transportation system, or to cause a power outage in a main city, or to shatter the ground below your feet for you to fall... Oh, sorry. I'm rambling. What was the question again?
Knowing their "why" may paint your disposition toward them, but I don't think it would shed much light. Either the system we have will work or it won't. SV17q seems to understand the butterfly effect isn't a silly trope, but an incredibly oversimplified explanation of how things work in a shifting field of probabilities.
originally posted by: NewNobodySpecial268
a reply to: Ksihkehe
my suggestion is SV17q is a machine mind, yet also organic. Keeping in mind that organics do not live long, the machine would want to aquire relacement organics on a regular basis.
ETA: and it might just go away.
"Disguising an attack as a natural phenomenon is simply brilliant. At least it doesn't make us look ridiculous when it comes to recognizing that we can do absolutely nothing against these probes.
“In our opinion, these are systems that follow an exotic, but not totally intractable, logic. The patterns of interaction and collaboration they follow is weakly similar to those we've found in the hadal zone among cetain species in which multiple individuals cooperate to obtain food or to prey. This is in the end a common phenomenon in nature. Our conclusion is that perhaps we should approach these probes as life forms, and not as mere machines.”