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Maadmann (03/07/2015) [-] 
HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.
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bigbuttjackson (03/07/2015) [-] Wow I thought I was the only person on FJ who knew this existed, thumb for you good sir
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sonofpsychodad (03/07/2015) [-] The story he's referring to is The Answer by Fredric Brown. It goes like this:
Dwan Ev ceremoniously soldered the final connection with gold. The eyes of a dozen television cameras watched him and the subether bore throughout the universe a dozen pictures of what he was doing.
He straightened and nodded to Dwar Reyn, then moved to a position beside the switch that would complete the contact when he threw it. The switch that would connect, all at once, all of the monster computing machines of all the populated planets in the universe -- ninety-six billion planets -- into the supercircuit that would connect them all into one supercalculator, one cybernetics machine that would combine all the knowledge of all the galaxies.
Dwar Reyn spoke briefly to the watching and listening trillions. Then after a moment's silence he said, "Now, Dwar Ev."
Dwar Ev threw the switch. There was a mighty hum, the surge of power from ninety-six billion planets. Lights flashed and quieted along the miles-long panel.
Dwar Ev stepped back and drew a deep breath. "The honor of asking the first question is yours, Dwar Reyn."
"Thank you," said Dwar Reyn. "It shall be a question which no single cybernetics machine has been able to answer."
He turned to face the machine. "Is there a God?"
The mighty voice answered without hesitation, without the clicking of a single relay.
"Yes, now there is a God."
Sudden fear flashed on the face of Dwar Ev. He leaped to grab the switch.
A bolt of lightning from the cloudless sky struck him down and fused the switch shut.
Dwan Ev ceremoniously soldered the final connection with gold. The eyes of a dozen television cameras watched him and the subether bore throughout the universe a dozen pictures of what he was doing.
He straightened and nodded to Dwar Reyn, then moved to a position beside the switch that would complete the contact when he threw it. The switch that would connect, all at once, all of the monster computing machines of all the populated planets in the universe -- ninety-six billion planets -- into the supercircuit that would connect them all into one supercalculator, one cybernetics machine that would combine all the knowledge of all the galaxies.
Dwar Reyn spoke briefly to the watching and listening trillions. Then after a moment's silence he said, "Now, Dwar Ev."
Dwar Ev threw the switch. There was a mighty hum, the surge of power from ninety-six billion planets. Lights flashed and quieted along the miles-long panel.
Dwar Ev stepped back and drew a deep breath. "The honor of asking the first question is yours, Dwar Reyn."
"Thank you," said Dwar Reyn. "It shall be a question which no single cybernetics machine has been able to answer."
He turned to face the machine. "Is there a God?"
The mighty voice answered without hesitation, without the clicking of a single relay.
"Yes, now there is a God."
Sudden fear flashed on the face of Dwar Ev. He leaped to grab the switch.
A bolt of lightning from the cloudless sky struck him down and fused the switch shut.
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cheastnut ONLINE (03/07/2015) [-] in response to the "just use a hammer" and other such complaints. they built an extremely intelligent computer, the story implies they wanted something that can calculate infinite complexities in rapid succession (find god) which would require an infinitely inelegant computing process therefore the computer would have to be capable of enhancing it's own intelligence without external input. to find an omnipotent being you'd need an equally intelligent being. So this computer being that is so vastly more intelligent then we're would be able to comprehend things we couldn't hope to imagine and when it was asked "is there a god" it's level of intelligence would basically allow it to "google search" reality itself and beyond in theory. And when it said "there is now" implies there wasn't before, when lightning strikes the plug it means that the computer has learned to "program" reality and there of connect to energies through extra sensory means. so in sort the computer found no being higher then itself, knows how to manipulate the world around it and is self sustaining.
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smirkythread (03/07/2015) [-]
Guess I have a hard believing it can do anything without actually being interact with the physical world, at least in a way I can understand.
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lolgonewrong (03/07/2015) [-] tl:dr
the computer didn't find a higher being
so it MADE it self a higher being
the computer didn't find a higher being
so it MADE it self a higher being
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theplanetearth (03/07/2015) [-] But how could it be a God if you could kill it by peeing on it?
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theguywhoaskswhy (03/08/2015) [-] Thank you.
But unless it had arms and legs, I'm pretty sure I could **** god up with a sledgehammer.
But unless it had arms and legs, I'm pretty sure I could **** god up with a sledgehammer.
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theguywhoaskswhy (03/08/2015) [-] I'm pretty resilient when it comes to temporal rewrites.
But I see your point.
But I see your point.
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theshadowed (03/07/2015) [-] Yes, the box that just zapped something with lightning
Go attack God
See how thats goes
Go attack God
See how thats goes
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smirkythread (03/07/2015) [-]
At the time I hadn't understood that the computer had done it and the comments building off weren't around yet. I had thought the computer was just being an arrogant tosser and that God had fried the the switch as a **** you to the people that made it.
Kinda dumb admittedly but whatever.
Kinda dumb admittedly but whatever.
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lazorman (03/08/2015) [-] here the full text, it's like 12 lines haha
www.roma1.infn.it/~anzel/answer.html
www.roma1.infn.it/~anzel/answer.html
