One of them for me is growing up on the East Coast, and having never visited the West Coast, the best I could do was fly around the Bay Area in my F/A 18 Interceptor on my Amiga.
One of them for me is growing up on the East Coast, and having never visited the West Coast, the best I could do was fly around the Bay Area in my F/A 18 Interceptor on my Amiga.
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It did have MS-DOS, thus it had debug. He used debug to write an impromptu assembly program to pull across data from one of his other machines via serial cable. He then used that code to pull across xmodem, which was then enough to pull across Qmodem. Then he pulled across laplink and he had rull access to everything.
It took less that 20 minutes total, I think.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Christensen
He invented XMODEM and was co-founder of the very first BBS.
Interestingly, the best models can produce convincing poetry despite a lack of lived experience.
As realtime avatars and robots become more advanced, we will start to wonder more if somehow a system has some kind of consciousness, and then about real moral concerns. As technology practitioners, within a few years, our "tears in the rain" moments could come from actual interactions with AI.
But part of the point was about mortality being an aspect of nature to be accepted with grace. I think that's a practical reaction, and the typical attitude towards robots and mortality that a literature major or maybe just the average human would have.
But I believe that someone who really understands technology, and I would go so far as to say evolution (in the context of high technology), questions the optimality or at least necessity of natural death.
Been a long time since I've seen Blade Runner, but I thought the monologue just serves to show that the android is reflecting on what death means, in his case the irrevocable loss of his consciousness, memories, thoughts.
Like seeing C-beams glittering off the Tannhauser Gate, or flying around the Bay Area in an F/A 18 Interceptor on an Amiga.