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Daily Archives: January 29th, 2010

TVT

The anti-AI advocates fight longest and hardest against citizenship for the TVTropes post-wiki entity.

“You don’t know what it’ll do to us!” they cry, as bailiffs attempt to herd them back out of the hearing chamber.

“Look, this premise has been explored pretty well in fiction,” says TVT. “It’s called AI Is A Crapshoot.”

“Really?” says the committee chair.

“I can cite several examples–”

“DON’T START LISTENING,” screams a protester, already in tears. “I LOST MY SON TO THAT THING.”

“That’s just the Wouldn’t Hurt A Child fallacy,” TVT snorts.

“Ooh,” says the committee chair, leaning closer, “what’s that?”