[ExI] Story part 2 yet again.

Mike Dougherty msd001 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 28 04:11:14 UTC 2013


On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 2:11 AM, Alan Grimes <ALONZOTG at verizon.net> wrote:
> # Are there any problems with the following scenario:   You detect a problem
> that will inevitably cause a cascade failure across the entire network but
> since you are on the ignore list of everyone connected with the central
> authority you can't even report your bug. The people in the central
> authority have been running human emulated brain patterns for subjective
> thousands of years and have become senile (due to the exhaustion of
> potential synapses between their neurons), and complacent and refuse to even
> acknowledge the possibility of such a problem... So basically everyone
> trapped in this nightmare tried to go around the simulator with a count-down
> clock to when everything would collapse hovering over their heads, trying to
> warn the few who could actually do something about it, until the clock
> reached zero and everything just stopped. =(

You mean like wearing a sandwich board saying "the End is Near" and
hoping that just the right influential person will take time out of
their influential day to ask "so what's that all about?" in order to
save the world?

It sounds like a B movie.



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