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Let's give an invulnerable computer irrevocable control...


...over our entire nuclear arsenal.

What could possibly go wrong?

But seriously, this film is a masterpiece.

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good idea,, lets design an ego for it too, perhaps a bit of selfish ambition in there as well?
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Oh and don't forget this one.

As someone else said on the board here. When the computer assembly was final no one thinks to install a safeguard in case it runs amok.

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The "rogue" computers in these movies always conclude(correctly so?) that human beings are evil and self-destructive. Therefore, in the computers' self-interest, the humans must be controlled or eliminated.

I think this is the most impressive idea ever fleshed out in Sci-Fi movies(The Invisible Boy, Creation Of The Humanoids, Forbin, the Terminator...). Cautionary tales concerning our conflicted nature.

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And BSG.......

But cylons are more clones then machines... Well the fleshy ones at least

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