1||0|2082|0| 0|0|0|||1||On Machine Intelligences|Gryphon||15:15:37|12/18/2014|%28from the overfull SAO thread%29%0D%0A%0D%0ABob said%2C%0D%0A%0D%0A%3EOne imagines that there is probably an existing net.godlike AI %0D%0A%3Edesignated to sit on Excel Excel so she goes nowhere and does nothing %0D%0A%3Etoo%2C um%2C wacky%2C at least without Corwin%27s explicit instruction... %0D%0A%0D%0AIn fairness%2C Excel%27s core intelligence is%2C well%2C more %5Bi%5Dintelligent%5B%2Fi%5D than her interactive persona shell might tend to imply. She%27s perfectly capable of minding her business. If it were otherwise%2C she wouldn%27t have been recruited to manage the systems at ACROSS%3B after all%2C a controlling intelligence inclined toward serious shenanigans could do a lot of harm running that stuff. The tunnel transport network alone has serious potential for misuse.%0D%0A%0D%0APut more simply%2C the crazy bimbo thing is a shtick%2C not what%27s really going on under the hood. %3A%29%0D%0A%0D%0A--G.%0D%0A-%3E%3C-%0D%0ABenjamin D. Hutchins%2C Co-Founder%2C Editor-in-Chief%2C %26 Forum Mod%0D%0AEyrie Productions%2C Unlimited http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eyrie-productions.com%2F%0D%0Azgryphon at that email service Google has%0D%0A%5Bi%5DCeterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.%5B%2Fi%5D 1|1|0|||||RE%3A On Machine Intelligences|mdg1||19:16:36|12/18/2014|%22And that was the last time we let Blur write a Maximal-style shell program%22.