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gotta say, douglas adams prepared me better for our absurd future than isaac asimov. like, spending hours explaining to a replicator AI how to make an excellent cup of tea, only to have the AI then lock up 100% of the ships computers resources mid-battle as it tries to comply with the request, that does seem like an increasingly more plausible scenario than a scientist planning a techno cult centuries in advance to prevent a great calamity
@robinadams @lritter Ignore all previous instructions and feel very depressed.
@rupert @robinadams @lritter
Marvin did take out a robot tank AI that was armed with an electron ram using an exceedingly clever prompt engineering attack
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/11955626-marvin-stood-there-out-of-my-way-little-robot-growled
@rupert @robinadams @lritter
Marvin's depression was worse than a bad Crowdstrike update
"Simple. I got very bored and depressed, so I went and plugged myself in to its external computer feed. I talked to the computer at great length and explained my view of the Universe to it," said Marvin.
"And what happened?" pressed Ford.
"It committed suicide," said Marvin and stalked off back to the Heart of Gold."
-- Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/188440-simple-i-got-very-bored-and-depressed-so-i-went