"Now ends the age of Man".
CLAIRE: "Tell me, kid, have you ever danced with the devil by the pale moonlight?"
"There's no earthly way of knowing/thread.
Which direction we are going
There's no knowing where we're rowing
Or which way the river's flowing
Is it raining, is it snowing
Is a hurricane a-blowing
Not a speck of light is showing
So the danger must be growing
Are the fires of Hell a-glowing
Is the grisly reaper mowing
Yes, the danger must be growing
For the rowers keep on rowing
And they're certainly not showing
Any signs that they are slowing"
CLAIRE: "Hmmm..... I like the idea of that virus. Kittens. Fluffy fluffy kittens.
One could take a modeling and rendering program with a bunch of good kitten models, then write a script to use a stream of random numbers to color them, pose them, set the lighting, add other props.... And then another one to transform photos into a stream of random numbers, which is easy.
After that, it's a matter of training a neural network to recognize which pics are porn (which I've already done for my esteemed employer; I have MANY terabytes of the training data we had to collect, and folks, I bet it dwarfs Pintsize's collection) and save kitten pics with the same name and format back in place of them, and you've got yourself a virus payload. I could monkey that together in a few weekends.
Um, not that I would ever, ever do such a thing....
Of course not. That would be evil.
Maybe.
Would that be evil?
It is a mystery....
Honestly, it's gotten hard for me to understand the whole"Good, Evil" thing. Fortunately for me, I don't give much of a crap about it so it doesn't bother me. I'm having a Hofstadter moment though, in realizing that if I did give a crap about it, then that would make me give a crap about it..... "