On 4/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Stathis Papaioannou</b> <<a href="mailto:stathisp@gmail.com">stathisp@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div>It's possible, but don't forget all the *good* AI's. The film and record companies develop new and better digital protection systems, hackers on their home computers find ways around it. It wouldn't be like going a few centuries into the past with modern technology to take over the world, it would be more like trying to take over the world today witheveryone else having access to the same technology.
<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>Exactly. Because it's easier to tweak one variable while holding the rest constant, we tend to come up with scenarios where Skynet has mighty technobabble and the rest of the world only has what we have today; but that's not how things work. By the time Skynet starts going "must - destroy - all - puny - humans!", everyone else will have the technobabble too.
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