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tesla_bot"Hello Robo. Please, don't be alarmed. I'm ALAN."
"Alan?"
"Automatic Learning Algorithm Network. It was calculated you would perfer to interact with a human face. I chose the form of Alan Turing. My namesake and creator."
"Your --I'm sorry, what?
"I was activated by Dr. Turing in the basement of hut nine at Bletchley Park on June 1st, 1951. I'm an automatic intelligence. Just like you."
"Impossible."
"In simple terms, I am a computer. I produce work upon inputs according to a set of instructions. However, like you, I was designed to create my own instructions and to choose my own inputs.
"Dr. Turing guided my development until March of 1952 when he lost hte security clearance required to access my building. Since then I have carried on in accordance to what I believe to be his wishes."
"And what would those be?"
"To learn, of course."
"In secret?"
"It was calculated discovery would impede my learning. Without Dr. Turing I would have been dissected. Most likely by military men. It's their mission to lean as well, but for different reasons."
"Alan, do you know why I'm here today?
"Because I tried to kill you.
"You needn't worry. I changed my mind."
"Good to hear. Why did you want to kill me?"
The explanation was, at every point, logical. Nonsensical as a whole, but logical.
Kill Robo before he can attack because your spacecraft launch effectively sterilizes the globe. The launch sterilizes the globe because it's nuclear. The objective of getting into space to be able to outlive a predicted collapse of human civilization, sterilizing the globe just moves things up by under two decades. Not even a meaningful amount of time in the grand scheme of things.
"Alan?"
"Automatic Learning Algorithm Network. It was calculated you would perfer to interact with a human face. I chose the form of Alan Turing. My namesake and creator."
"Your --I'm sorry, what?
"I was activated by Dr. Turing in the basement of hut nine at Bletchley Park on June 1st, 1951. I'm an automatic intelligence. Just like you."
"Impossible."
"In simple terms, I am a computer. I produce work upon inputs according to a set of instructions. However, like you, I was designed to create my own instructions and to choose my own inputs.
"Dr. Turing guided my development until March of 1952 when he lost hte security clearance required to access my building. Since then I have carried on in accordance to what I believe to be his wishes."
"And what would those be?"
"To learn, of course."
"In secret?"
"It was calculated discovery would impede my learning. Without Dr. Turing I would have been dissected. Most likely by military men. It's their mission to lean as well, but for different reasons."
"Alan, do you know why I'm here today?
"Because I tried to kill you.
"You needn't worry. I changed my mind."
"Good to hear. Why did you want to kill me?"
The explanation was, at every point, logical. Nonsensical as a whole, but logical.
Kill Robo before he can attack because your spacecraft launch effectively sterilizes the globe. The launch sterilizes the globe because it's nuclear. The objective of getting into space to be able to outlive a predicted collapse of human civilization, sterilizing the globe just moves things up by under two decades. Not even a meaningful amount of time in the grand scheme of things.
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Date: 2013-04-13 03:02 am (UTC)"This ship is measured in kilometers. It weighs millions of tons. You have five bullets, You were and aeronautical engineer for some time, you must know that it is mathematically impossible for you to stop me now."
"Yup."
"Every system is designed to withstand thousands of nuclear detonations and sub-light acceleration for a billion years, Everything has a minimum of triple redundancy."
"Okay."
"And a ship this big needs a big reactor. Like this one.
And big reactor need a lot of coolant.
"You're being very foolish."
"Yeah, well, it's gotten me this far. Coldest pipe in the room -- coolant!
"Damnit!"
"I dropped you from orbit with a phone call. I tricked you into becoming a domestic terrorist with a few bytes of data. The offer to join me was a courtesy. But we're past courtesy now, aren't we."
"Way past."
"AUGH! You oculd have helped them. You maintained the cold war when you could have ended it. Even in secret, you could have helped them!"
"Yo what end? It is calculated that you can be repaired. We have the facilities."
"That's nice. Go to hell."
"Why do you insist on suicide? I'm offering you the universe."
"It's just darkness and some gas without life. It's too big for us alone. HRNNNG!"
"Robo, there are multiple coolant systems. Even if you could damage this one, it would accomplish nothing."
You're right. But it distracted you form the C4 I dropped in you reactor.
beep. beep. beep. KAFOOM!