{"id":103,"date":"2003-07-13T02:52:40","date_gmt":"2003-07-13T07:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2003\/07\/13\/dumbing-down\/"},"modified":"2003-07-13T02:52:40","modified_gmt":"2003-07-13T07:52:40","slug":"dumbing-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2003\/07\/13\/dumbing-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Dumbing Down?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a7'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few days ago I watched T3 and started thinking about the situation where SkyNet basically highjacks all the interconnected computer systems on the planet then decides humanity isn&#8217;t worth keeping around.<br \/>\nNow there&#8217;s a lot here that probably isn&#8217;t that feasible yet.  At least in my understanding of how the world works currently however if you consider this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All of the interconnected computers represent brain cells for SkyNet\n<li>Most of those computers would probably be in metropolitan areas\n<li>Destroying a computer is akin to destroying brain cells\n<\/ul>\n<p>If I were SkyNet I&#8217;d think the cost of blowing away half of the plumbing that powers my intellectual capacity would be kind of&#8230; dumb.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAnyways just a random thought from the <em>You&#8217;ve got too much time on your hands<\/em> dept.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I watched T3 and started thinking about the situation where SkyNet basically highjacks all the interconnected computer systems on the planet then decides humanity isn&#8217;t worth keeping around. Now there&#8217;s a lot here that probably isn&#8217;t that feasible yet. At least in my understanding of how the world works currently however [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tagme"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}