John

 FatherBox :

My Mission is to Protect You.

John :

Yeah? Who Sent You?

FatherBox :

You Did. Thirty-five Years from now, 

You reprogrammed Me 

to be Your Protector here 

in THIS Time.

John :

Oh, This is Deep.....

"The You That’s Out There in The Future is sort of like Another Person, and so figuring out How to Conduct Yourself Properly in relationship to Your Future Self isn’t much different than figuring out How to Conduct Yourself in relationship to Other People. 

 

Then we can expand the constraints. Not only does The Interpretation that you extract have to Protect You from Suffering and Give You an Aim, but it has to do it in a way that’s iterable, so it works across time, and then it has to work in The Presence of Other People, so that you can cooperate with Them and compete with Them in a way that doesn't make You suffer more. 

 

People are Not That Tolerant. They have Choices. 

 

They don’t have to hang around with you; They can hang around with any one of these other primates. 

 

So if you don’t act properly, at least within certain boundaries, you’re just cast aside. 

People are broadcasting information at you, all the time, about How You Need to Interpret The World, so They can tolerate being around you. 

 

And you need that because, socially isolated, You’re Insane, and then You're Dead. No one can tolerate being alone for any length of time. 

 

We can’t retain Our Own Sanity without continual feedback from Other People. 

 

It’s too damned complicated.  

 

You’re constrained by Your Own Existence, and then you're constrained by The Existence of Other People, and then you're also constrained by The World.  

 

If I read Hamlet and what I extracted out of that is the idea that I should jump off a bridge, it puts my interpretation to an end rather quickly. It doesn’t seem to be optimally functional. 

An Interpretation is constrained by The Reality of The World. 

 

It’s constrained by The Reality of Other People, and it’s constrained by Your Reality Across Time.  

 

There’s only a small number of interpretations that are going to work in that tightly defined space. 

 

That’s part of The Reason That Postmodernists are Wrong. It’s also part of the reason, by the way, that AI people who are trying to make intelligent machines have had to put them in A Body.  

 

It turns out that you just can’t make Something Intelligent without it being embodied, and it’s partly for the reasons that I've just described. 

 

You need constraints on The System, so that The System doesn’t drown in An Infinite Sea of Interpretation. It’s something like that."

John :

We're not gonna make it, are we?

People, I mean.

Uncle BOB, 

The FatherBox :

.... It's in Your Nature to 

Destroy Yourselves.

John :

Yeah.....

Major drag, huh?

A Mother

(The Shekinah..?) :

Break it up before I wring BOTH of your necks.

Princess O'Connor, 

Mother of The Future :

I need to know How SkyNet Gets Built.

Who's responsible?

Uncle BOB, 

The FatherBox :

The Man most directly responsible is 

Miles Bennett Dyson.

Princess O'Connor, 

Mother of The Future :

Who is that?

Uncle BOB, 

The FatherBox :

He's the Director of Special Projects 

at CyberDyne Systems Corporation.

Princess O'Conor, 

Mother of The Future :

Why him?

Uncle BOB, 

The FatherBox :

In a few months time, he creates 

a revolutionary type of microprocessor.

Princess O'Connor, 

Mother of The Future :

Go on. Then what?

Uncle BOB, 

The FatherBox :

In three years CyberDyne 

will become the largest supplier 

of military computer systems.

All Stealth bombers are upgraded 

with CyberDyne computers, 

becoming fully unmanned.

Afterwards, they fly with 

a Perfect Operational Record.

The Skynet Funding Bill is passed.

The System goes on-line on August 4, 1997.

Human Decisions are removed from Strategic Defense.

SkyNet begins to learn at a geometric rate.

It becomes self-aware at 

2:14 a.m. Eastern Time, August 29th.

In the panic, They try to Pull The Plug.

Princess O'Connor, 

Mother of The Future :

SkyNet fights back.

Uncle BOB, 

The FatherBox :

Yes. It launches its missiles 

against The Targets in Russia.

John :

Why Attack Russia? 

Aren't They Our Friends, now?

Uncle BOB, 

The FatherBox :

Skynet KNOWS The Russian COUNTER-Attack 

will eliminate It's Enemies over HERE.