[DF] "But I'm a (half) angel!"

[robkelk]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

Why? Who would program a computer to catastrophically fail when faced with facts that disagree with previously understood facts? That would mean the A.I. couldn't ever have learned to begin with.
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What is this "A.I." you speak of? We're only allowed one improbable assumption per SF story, and the one here is "a computer system that reaches around the world".

(Just because we have it now doesn't mean anybody expected it then.)