[ExI] early indications of an unfriendly ai

[Anton Sherwood]

On 2020-10-01 16:45, spike jones via extropy-chat wrote:
> One guy had written an app which was a way to share a bill when several guys
> went to lunch together.  It was an electronic gaming die of sorts.  All
> parties, say there are 5, would spin a dial on the screen with the cursor,
> it would generate a number, the five devices would gather the numbers from
> each of the other four devices and each would do some kind of algorithm to
> calculate which of the five pays the bill for all.  Then instead of paying a
> fifth of the bill, it would roll to see who pays the whole bill, and the
> other four pay nothing.

I heard Fred Moulton describe such an app.  As I remember it, the 
principal goal was to avoid making more than one person break a $20 
bill.  Often one person would pay for all, but not always.

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