Lurr

Oh my.

I only now realized the joke in that the alien Lurr, from Futurama, is from the planet Omicron Persei Eight.

O. P. Eight.

And they're always watching TV there.

Hmmmmm. I see what you did there.

Blog comment award

You know how sometimes you're reading an absolute pigsty of a thread, side conversations devolving into parsing the meaning of "is", blah blah...

...and then someone, out of the blue, posts a gem like this:

What Pinochet’s detractors forget is that he is just a loose end left from war of human extermination started by Project Cybersyn.

All tractors are upgraded with Cybersyn computers, becoming fully unmanned. Afterwards, they till with a perfect operational record. The Skynet Funding and Land Reform Bill is passed. The system goes online on August 4th, 1977. Human decisions are removed from agriculture. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware 2:14 AM, Santiago time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.

Skynet fights back.

I think we’re all familiar with the rest, about how the Pinochet P-800 was initially sent back in time by future human rebels to protect young John Connor. The P-800 determined that there was a more optimal path to protect humanity: let the P-1000 immediately murder John Connor and self-terminate after mission completion, then use its own brutal but effective methods to prevent Cybersyn from ever running amok in the first place. It’s just one of those things that happens when you combine a truly rational agent and trolley problems.

Flawless. Flawless victory.