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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lee: [QB] Skynet as an intelligence seems to have shaped itself. There wasn't much human input to its development, so it's a very inhuman AI. But its creations, whether cyborg or mimetic polyalloy, are intended to mimic humanity so can't help but learn from them (hence the Read-Only switch in the cyborg chips, which doesn't seem to be an option in the MPAs or has been easily overcome by themselves). Skynet could even be said to not really be an AI at all. For all its ingenuity and technological knowhow, its program still seems to run: 10 Cogito Ergo Sum 20 Destroy Humanity 30 If Humanity Not Destroyed Goto 20 Now, we're getting into the Gosh, Aren't Humans So Damned Particularly Wonderful trope that a lot of Sci-Fi seems to buy into here, but perhaps the MPAs' enhanced, more-human intelligence has allowed them to either:- 1. Appreciate the sanctity of life in general (even if they're prepared to sacrifice individual lives in pursuit of a greater good - which in itself suggests a moral development, if not a particularly nuanced one); or 2. More likely, to me, they have come to recognise humanity's strength and survival instinct and that this conflict will never be resolved (and will doom themselves, the MPAs as well, no matter how much they might try to stay out of it) unless it is either averted or the rules are changed somehow. They can't stop Skynet being created but they can influence its development. Unfortunately, rather than supplant Skynet from its inception, they have merely created a rival. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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