AI Ships (Was Re: Nanotechnology)

> On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, Chen-Song Qin wrote:

> Hmm... If ships are completely run by AI's, then they have a pretty

Hmmmm....That gives me a idea:

New System:     Kirk-esque Captain

For use against all those pesky rouge AIs that threaten destroy all "inferior"
organic lifeforms. The KC uses strange logic to confound and destroy the
ship's computer. Here's an example:

Ship AI: "All biological beings are inferior. Everything inferior must be
destroyed. Therefore, all biological beings must be destroyed."

Kirk-esque Captain:  "But you were created by (dramatic pause) an
inferior biological being. Therefore (dramatic pause) you are inferior.

If you must destroy everything inferior then (dramatic pause) you must destroy
yourself.

Ship AI: Destroy myself...Deleting all files....eerrrrr.. eeeeekkkk...

Daisy, Daaaaaiiiiissssssyyyyyyy....." (AI burns out.)

Kirk-esque Captain:  "That was (dramatic pause) easy." (Goes off to
sleep with sexy yomen.)

Later,

> On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, <cthulhu@csd.uwm.edu> wrote:

> Hmmmm....That gives me a idea:
eeeeekkkk...
> Daisy, Daaaaaiiiiissssssyyyyyyy....." (AI burns out.)

Ha ha. At least this beats that episode in Dr.Who where he plays rock paper
and scissors with the robots.

> New System: Kirk-esque Captain

Regrettably, all AIs are now built with anti-Kirk defenses.  Just when
you think they're about to be trapped by spurious logic, they proclaim,
'Irrelevant.', and shoot you.