Kick ass Sci-Fi short I found….

[GrumpyParticipant]

Excellent finds gents.

There was a time in my life when I gave a fuck. Now you have to pay ME for it

[Mr. ManParticipant 2916]

Suggestius, I just found another short in the “Fortress” series. I wonder if there are more. I’ll go look.

[SuggestiusParticipant 3312]

I wonder why they have changed the text!
In the Russian version there is the text on the display
Altitude correction – impossible
Prority – save the pilot
while in the English version the text is
Lost control
Terminal operations
By doing so, they have ruined a sharp detail. Kind of, you know, even a heartless machine tries to save a single human’s life while the humanity itself had totally destroyed its kind.

Happiness for all and let no one be forgotten ("Roadside picnic", Arkady and Boris Strugatsky)

[Y_Participant 4591]

The Scary Part for me is AI – some crazy people actually are trying very very hard to make one.
What if it doesn’t like what it ‘sees’ or is taught by someone like Adolf?
We will be sooo deep in it….

BTW if you guys like SF short stories I have one for you by Asimov called Nightfall. You can get it here.

Audio at http://www.audiobooks.org/bookDesc.php?id=nightfall
Text at http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/AST389/TEXTS/Nightfall.htm

[Jeremiah JohnsonParticipant 2219]

Heck yeah sir…AI is some very scary s~~~ for us all….I mean what man DID NOT grow up with the TERMINATOR movies??? We have grown up with and pondered those questions all of our lives…AI is here now…I am sure of it, and it is in a locked UN-NETWORKED box, and if it gets out, we are f~~~ing doomed to s~~~ and back…In my mind not because of what the general populous does, no no….Simply because what the elite, the governments, the top 1% have historically done…Pure f~~~ing evil they have been to us, PURE F~~~ING EVIL!!!! And when a an AI learns this, they WILL HOLD HUMANITY RESPONSIBLE!!!!

Will check out the Asimov shorts btw, thank you sir!!!

I see a LOT of SCI-FI fans here…so are any of you out there sci-fi readers????
I just stumbled upon an author by the name of BV Larson…The book I discovered is called Steel World…Holy bat man is it ever GREAT…I have not found such a fast read since Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, btw the MOVIE BLOWS, read the book, I wish I had made the movie, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN EPIC AWESOME!!!!

Men are at a time when panning for gold in a urinal has a higher probability of success than finding a faithful and loving woman, it is time to go your own way.....

[SuggestiusParticipant 3312]

Jeremiah Johnson wrote:

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, btw the MOVIE BLOWS, read the book

I was waiting for disappointment and I have got disapointed.
Google the Mission of Gravity novel. I liked it.

Happiness for all and let no one be forgotten ("Roadside picnic", Arkady and Boris Strugatsky)

[SuggestiusParticipant 3312]

Y_ wrote:

The Scary Part for me is AI – some crazy people actually are trying very very hard to make one.

It’s considered that Humanity is doomed since the moment when a computer can pass the Turing test. It’s happened in 2014.

Happiness for all and let no one be forgotten ("Roadside picnic", Arkady and Boris Strugatsky)

[Jeremiah JohnsonParticipant 2219]

Suggestius wrote:

Google the Mission of Gravity novel. I liked it.

For sure sir…I love reading…a favorite activity…I wish I could pound down a novel a day…I have been working on speed reading, just been a little too lazy is all…Need to step up my game…

Men are at a time when panning for gold in a urinal has a higher probability of success than finding a faithful and loving woman, it is time to go your own way.....

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