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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Microsoft admits 30% of code not written by humans
Date: Sat, 3 May 2025 02:31:41 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 2 May 2025 09:08:15 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

> On 2025-05-02 00:37, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 1 May 2025 22:04:13 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>> 
>>> For instance, you cannot possibly run faster than x, you also couldn't
>>> ever be more muscular than y. To break through those limits, you would
>>> have to be special (anomalies or bugs in the system), and agents were
>>> deployed to squash you back into the walled garden.
>> 
>> I don’t understand why. Why should there be any “failures”, when all
>> actions are effectively consequence-free?
> 
> Because the machine's systems always followed logic.

Why did they have to? Put that under the control of the human inhabitants 
as well.

> For example, humans wanted every day to be filled with sunshine and good
> weather, but such a thing would lead to crop failure.

“Let there be successful crops!” *Snaps fingers* Problem solved.

> A lot of the problems were also caused by human emotion, something the
> machine simply couldn't comprehend.

Let the humans themselves sort it out. That’s how it works in human 
society.