What do you want in an AI?

[Puke]

I want it to be able to love. not in a pedophile sort of way that you might think about when connecting a sentence like that to little blond boys or D.A.R.Y.L., and not in a CHERRY 2000 sort of way, but in a sappy steve spielberg pandering to the lowest common denominator of mushy emotions sort of way. because I want to know that when I beat this AI, somewhere theres the mind of a little 8 year old boy crying its eyes out because its people are incinerated or enslaved.

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"...the green, sticky spawn of the stars"
(with apologies to H.P.L.)

edit: tried to fix the spelling of incinerated, but probably still got it wrong.

[This message has been edited by Puke (edited 27 July 2001).]