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*** It's strange that they didn't try this in ''T2'', since their goal in that one was also to prevent Judgment Day. They convinced Miles Dyson pretty easily, they could have just shown the T-800 to the press or the White House or even Cyberdyne as proof. I doubt any corporation outside of [[Cyberpunk]] fiction would be greedy enough to risk the future of civilization to build an artificial intelligence. |
*** It's strange that they didn't try this in ''T2'', since their goal in that one was also to prevent Judgment Day. They convinced Miles Dyson pretty easily, they could have just shown the T-800 to the press or the White House or even Cyberdyne as proof. I doubt any corporation outside of [[Cyberpunk]] fiction would be greedy enough to risk the future of civilization to build an artificial intelligence. |
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*** Yeah, they missed a great chance to derail Skynet's creation at the end of T2. Of course, by that point they'd committed so many major felonies that going public would've probably gotten Sarah convicted of multiple counts of terrorism, because if the Terminator is real, then she's ''not crazy'' and can be prosecuted. John too, possibly as an adult due to the extreme nature of the crimes (shooting up suburbia, blowing up a factory) he was a part of. |
*** Yeah, they missed a great chance to derail Skynet's creation at the end of T2. Of course, by that point they'd committed so many major felonies that going public would've probably gotten Sarah convicted of multiple counts of terrorism, because if the Terminator is real, then she's ''not crazy'' and can be prosecuted. John too, possibly as an adult due to the extreme nature of the crimes (shooting up suburbia, blowing up a factory) he was a part of. |
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**** They thought they ''already had'' derailed Skynet's creation at the end of T2 -- and so did we, the audience. T3's sudden revelation of 'Judgement Day is inevitable! Skynet will be invented an entirely different way even if all the timelost T-800 processors it was originally developed from were destroyed!' was a retcon. So of course the decisions of characters in T2 will not be informed by this possibility, because it only exists due to the scriptwriters changing the rules on us after the fact. |
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** This whole idea is built on the concept that humanity would have a calm, rational, logical reaction to this sort of news. This idea is therefore automatically bad. |
** This whole idea is built on the concept that humanity would have a calm, rational, logical reaction to this sort of news. This idea is therefore automatically bad. |
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* Agent Ellison suggests that if they want to teach John Henry to obey the law, they should, "Start with the first ten." Which is uplifting and reminds us that God can kick a T-1000's ass. But something approaching half of those rules don't even make sense when applied to an AI. |
* Agent Ellison suggests that if they want to teach John Henry to obey the law, they should, "Start with the first ten." Which is uplifting and reminds us that God can kick a T-1000's ass. But something approaching half of those rules don't even make sense when applied to an AI. |
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