From: | Carsten Gehling carsten@**********.dk |
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Subject: | SPOILER!!! Renraku Arcology (Re: Not the Crash of '29 but '00 :-) |
Date: | Mon, 8 May 2000 07:44:15 +0200 |
> viruses kill their hosts. Stops them mutating and
> replicating.
No. Smart viruses kill their hosts... But only after a week or so after
entering the system, so it had time to mutate/replicate itself onto the
world's computer.
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> The question is...is there a new permutation just
> waiting to get out (in 2029?) at which time it'll
> actually become an AI???
Interesting notion. :-) What really happened in '29? Was the virus actually
the first AI to enter the scene of networked computing? And maybe it wasn't
completely destroyed. Remember that an AI may be highly intelligent. Maybe
it retreated to "fight another day". Then it used some time to restructure
itself to the global networking system - the Matrix. Now it just needs a
powerful host - enter Renraku Arcology's hosts AND "wizard-help-system"
(can't remember the name).
Or maybe Renraku actually caught copy of the virus-AI back in '29 and have
used it to build their "wizard-help-system". What would the world think, if
it found out, that Renraku played with powers it could not comprehend at the
time? And still can't to be true.
- Carsten
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