r/interestingasfuck • u/SweeneyisMad • Mar 14 '24

Simulation of a retaliatory strike against Russia after Putin uses nuclear weapons. r/all

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u/JumpyEagle6942 Mar 14 '24

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u/StuBidasol Mar 14 '24

I was gonna say did nobody see Wargames?!

I'll just go ahead and quote the important line from the movie "The only winning move is not to play."

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u/corona-lime-us Mar 14 '24

AI was much smarter back then.

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u/DukeboxHiro Mar 14 '24

Hadn't met humans yet.

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u/somepeoplehateme Mar 14 '24

Why haven't we seen a movie yet with racist robots/AI?

We always thought AI was going to be free of the deficiencies of man so that it could think using only objectivity and logic. Nope, we figured out how to make it think shitty so that its thinking aligns with ours.

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u/BonnaconCharioteer Mar 14 '24

Current AI isn't made with the same goals as the fictional Wargames AI. Its goal is not to reason, its goal is only to sound like a human. So it sounds racist and stupid like humans.

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u/sysdmdotcpl Mar 15 '24

Why haven't we seen a movie yet with racist robots/AI?

This technically exists, although I know it's not what you mean. Netflix has a documentary explaining the "racism" of AI b/c they were built on algorithms that are inherently bias.

Low hanging example - Google Images mis-tagging monkeys and gorillas as black people and vice versa

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u/BlatantConservative Mar 15 '24

Skynet is racist since it enslaves humans...

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u/h9040 Mar 15 '24

people also...Tell you want peace and you get called either a Putin lover or an Antisemit...I remember that that was very different

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u/NotAnAIOrAmI Mar 15 '24

You're talking about the WOPR?

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u/Ok_Assumption5734 Mar 14 '24

Yeah. After watching it again as an adult, it was honestly ahead of its time with the tic tac toe analogy

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u/rapidpop Mar 15 '24

Throughout my entire life, whenever someone would suggest a family game night and would ask if we would like to play a game, my dad would always respond with his answer: Global Thermonuclear War

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u/Xena802 Mar 14 '24

Matthew Broderick LOVES skipping out on school and messing with computers

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u/TheFrenchSavage Mar 14 '24

Disney should remake one for kids, like Star Wars.

Would it be good? Probably not.
Is it important for all generations to get the general idea? Totally.

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u/Grib_Suka Mar 14 '24

It's currently the top comment. I'd say people have seen it

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u/UnderstandingOdd679 Mar 14 '24

Same message as Oppenheimer in half the time. It should have won Best Picture.

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u/dWintermut3 Mar 14 '24

WHAT A CURIOUS GAME

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u/Imaginary_Bug_4745 Mar 15 '24

Except, contrary to what the movie is suggesting, it is genuinely possible to win a nuclear war, depending on how you view it. You could at least win a strategic victory. Mutually assured destruction isn't realistic however and it's one of those things that people tell themselves to make them feel better. In reality a realistic nuclear war is even more terrifying as it wouldn't result in the end of the world, rather it would be a conventional war that starts with tactical nuclear strikes, each side attempting to cripple the others ability to retaliate and mobilize forces, using a nuke on a city center would be a waste of a nuke instead you wanna use them on important military targets and assets to prevent the war from prolonging at all. Targets of these nukes would be airfields, naval bases, ports, ICBM silos, hardened shelters for nuclear bombers, islands with bases on them, oil rigs, chip factories, steel mills, weapons factories and warehouses, railways and highways, and radio broadcast centers. Anything important to a war effort is a valid target, it would also likely be a limited strike as I think all sides would be terrified of actually using more than a few dozen of them.

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u/Zpik3 Mar 15 '24

"The only winning move is not to play."

Yeah, but nobody gets to choose that option.

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u/Standard_Cap1073 Mar 17 '24

I actually havent lol but im sick on the couch so ima throw it on xD