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Almost appropriate really. Elon Musk said he was inspired to work on AI because of Douglas Adams. Every single AI Douglas Adams wrote about either malfunctioned, was an asshole, or both. When you have someone that oblivious funding research into AI, maybe it's sort of inevitable.
GIGO. Imperfect beings are never going to perfect artificial thought.
Maybe he likes to make things suffer and wanted to build Marvin
I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed about that possibility.
That is point by point the Torment Nexus anecdote. He's like a dark humor parody of a human being.
Next thing you know, the holodeck safeties will go offline, and the villains will gain sentience.
It's okay, just don't use the 'arch' command. It should be easy because it's never used before Moriarty and it's never used again either.
I use ‘Arch’ btw